"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. (Never mind
her 15 honorary doctorates, including one from University of Michigan). The
"kooky left wing sources" she used in her end notes to Diet for a Small
Planet include "Evaluation of Protein Nutrition" from the National Academy
of Sciences, "Composition of Foods" from the Agricultural Handbook no. of
the USDA, Scientific American , Vol 231 no. 3 Roger Revelle, "food and
population", etc. etc. for a total of 14 pages of dense end notes of
similar left wing kooky publications.

I'm sorry if I missed your science/biology/nutrition credentials in this
discussion, as well as those of your cohorts who chose to dismiss the
conclusions of this author without reading a word of her book. Perhaps
you'd care to share? Otherwise, I'll be forced to disregard everything you
write, as meaningless drivel coming out of a well of ignorance.

Incidentally, for those who leaped on Ms. Lappe for being a vegan, (as
evidence that she must be insane), she DOES NOT advocated being a vegan in
Diet for a Small Planet, and in fact bases many of her combinations on the
use of eggs and dairy products. Not that the ACTUAL facts would have any
relevance for you, if an opportunity to simply voice an unsupported position
might avail itself to you.