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    Stuffed and Starved: The Hidden Battle for the World Food System
    Stuffed and Starved: The Hidden Battle for the World Food System
    Stuffed and Starved: The Hidden Battle for the World Food System
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    Stuffed and Starved: The Hidden Battle for the World Food System

    Written by Raj Patel

    Narrated by Nigel Patterson

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    It's a perverse fact of modern life: There are more starving people in the world than ever before, while there are also more people who are overweight.

    To find out how we got to this point and what we can do about it, Raj Patel launched a comprehensive investigation into the global food network. It took him from the colossal supermarkets of California to India's wrecked paddy-fields and Africa's bankrupt coffee farms, while along the way he ate genetically engineered soy beans and dodged flying objects in the protestor-packed streets of South Korea.

    What he found was shocking, from the false choices given us by supermarkets to a global epidemic of farmer suicides, and real reasons for famine in Asia and Africa.

    Yet he also found great cause for hope-in international resistance movements working to create a more democratic, sustainable and joyful food system. Going beyond ethical consumerism, Patel explains, from seed to store to plate, the steps to regain control of the global food economy, stop the exploitation of both farmers and consumers, and rebalance global sustenance.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTantor Media, Inc
    Release dateJan 24, 2018
    ISBN9781977370068
    Stuffed and Starved: The Hidden Battle for the World Food System
    Author

    Raj Patel

    Raj Patel is an award-winning author, film-maker and academic. He is a Research Professor in the Lyndon B Johnson School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin. He worked at the World Bank and WTO, and has been teargassed on four continents protesting against them. A James Beard Foundation Leadership Award winner, he has testified about the causes of the global food crisis to the US, UK and EU governments, and is a member of the International Panel of Experts on Sustainable Food Systems. He is the author of Stuffed and Starved, the New York Times bestselling The Value of Nothing, and the coauthor of A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things, all of which have been translated and taught across the world, as have his scholarly publications in economics, philosophy, politics, and public health journals. His first documentary, filmed over the course of a decade in Malawi and the United States, is The Ants & The Grasshopper. He is a board member of the Deep Medicine Circle.

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    • 3/5
      Raj Patel brings a colloquial, humorous writing style to a complex and generally rather depressing subject: the domination of the world's food supply by corporations who are blind to their human and environmental effects in the rush for profits. He does hold out some nuggets of hope in the form of co-operative movements and community supported agriculture schemes, but the overall picture is still a grim one. While some of the ground he covers is familiar from other writers on the subject, there were a number of areas that were new to me: the problems with soybeans in particular. And I'd never really thought of the British predilection for milky sweet tea as a driver for the slave trade before. I liked Patel's very international perspective.
    • 3/5
      A good but uneven summary of the problems with our food system.
    • 5/5
      This is a great overview of the many problems with our current precarious food stuation and the ways in which policy shapes our palates! I found some of the examples lacking in detail, and much of the book was old news for me. But the bibliography and many great links to more information are well worth the price of the book. An outstanding resource and introduction to the topic of food sovereignity.
    • 4/5
      An essential read for anyone who cares what they eat and where it comes from.