gregpresley wrote:
"Bob Peterson" wrote in

Diet for a Small Planet is hardly evidence of anything other than left

wing

kookiness. If you want to trust your life to something that nutty then do
so, otherwise have some animal products in your diet.


A short biography of Frances Moore Lappe is found at the following
website:http://www.bookbrowse.com/index.cfm?...r&authorID=801

If you are capable of reading it, you'll see that, among other things, she
has been a faculty member at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, which,
as we all know, is famed for handing out faculty positions to people with no
credentials whatsoever, other than general left-wing kookiness.

Well, Paul Samuelson had some credentials in economics,
but he *was* a leftwing kook, and his Keynesian
prescriptives - doctrinaire big government, always and
everywhere - are thoroughly discredited.

(Never mind her 15 honorary doctorates, including one from
University of Michigan).

Honorary doctorates?! You must be kidding. Those ARE
handed out for various types of kookiness, and academia
just LOVES leftwing kookiness. Christall****ingmighty,
you dumbass, the "Rev." Al Sharpton has an honorary
doctorate!

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Incidentally, for those who leaped on Ms. Lappe for being a vegan

I didn't even know she was "vegan", but it probably was
a safe assumption.

You, being an ardent hardcore angry leftist and
probably a "vegan" as well, are simply blind.
"veganism" IS fundamentally the politicization of diet.
Lappe's rationale for advocating extreme
vegetarianism is completely leftwing; the text of that
fluff piece you linked to above is larded with leftist
anti-market language: "...whether we can go beyond
today’s consumerism and the isolation of me-first
capitalism and find paths we each can walk that will
heal our lives and the planet." "Consumerism",
"me-first capitalism", "heal..the planet": these are
ALL leftist totems, you ****ing moron.

That bullshit page references an institute she and some
other ardent leftist named Joseph Collins founded, the
Institute for Food and Development Policy, otherwise
known as Food First. I went to their page,
www.foodfirst.org (how did I know?), and there I found
reference after reference to leftist anti-market
political ideology. I also found the only word that
matters: "progressive", the happy-face word of choice
leftists prefer.