Who is the author of "Diet for a Small Planet", which spurred a movement towards vegetarianism?

Frances Moore Lappé (Born: 10 February, 1944) is an American author of the three-million-copy selling 1971 book "Diet for a Small Planet". Her last hamburger was in 1971, the same year of the publication of her book. In "Diet," Ms. Lappé argued that Americans eat too much meat, especially beef, and that our meat-centered meals are an enormous waste of resources. Both our bodies and the planet would be healthier if we are a plant-focused diet instead. Ms. Lappé has not only lived to see "Diet" turn 50 - an updated anniversary edition was published in September, 2021- but to watch her ideas about food and nutrition get adopted by millons of Americans and even spawn marketing buzzwords for the wellness industry.

The New York Times proclaimed her as "The Godmother" of 'Plant-Based' Living. She has received 19 honorary doctorates from distinguished institutions. In 1987 in Sweden, Lappé became the fourth American to receive the "Right Livelihood Award", a kind of alternative Nobel Prize. Ms. Lappé, or Frankie to her friends, is a down-to- earth, cheerful woman of 77.

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