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Aug 14, 2009
"If we encourage and uphold our essential goodness and capacity for loving connection, we can nurture a society of people who are healthy and whole and whose lives will bring healing, peace, and joy to those they touch."
—John Robbins
The City That Ended Hunger
"In writing Diet for a Small Planet, I learned one simple truth: Hunger is not caused by a scarcity of food but a scarcity of democracy. But that realization was only the beginning, for then I had to ask: What does a democracy look like that enables citizens to have a real voice in securing life's essentials? Does it exist anywhere? Is it possible or a pipe dream? With hunger on the rise here in the United States -- one in 10 of us is now turning to food stamps -- these questions take on new urgency." This thought-provoking article shares more about what happened to a city whose government "declared food a right of citizenship".
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