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Robert N. Bellah, Richard Madsen, William M. Sullivan, Ann Swidler, Steven M. Tipton,Habits of the Heart (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1985).
Harvey A. Hornstein,Cruelty and Kindness (Englewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1976).
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James Wessel with Mort Hantman,Trading the Future (San Francisco: Institute for Food and Development Policy, 1983).
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A version of this paper was presented to a conference on Food, Farming and Justice at St. Olaf College, Northfield, Minnesota, March 1, 1985.
FRANCES MOORE LAPPE is the cofounder of the Institute for Food and Development Policy, 1885 Mission St., San Francisco, California 94103. She is the author of DIET FOR A SMALL PLANET (Ballantine, 1982) and coauthor of FOOD FIRST: BEYOND THE MYTH OF SCARCITY (Ballentine, 1979), as well as several other books on food and development.
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Lappe, F.M. The family farm: Caught in the contradictions of American values. Agric Hum Values 2, 36–43 (1985). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01530548
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