Stuffed and Starved: The Hidden Battle for the World Food System - Revised and Updated
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| Rating | : | 4.49 (872 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1612191274 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 432 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-01-21 |
| Language | : | English |
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He has worked for the World Bank, WTO, and the UN, and he’s also been tear-gassed on four continents protesting them. Raj Patel, a fellow at Food First, is a visiting scholar at the UC Berkeley Center for African Studies. He is the author of The Value of Nothing: How to Reshape Market Society and Red
"Compelling. The product of a brilliant mind and a gift to a world hungering for justice.”—Naomi Klein, author of No Logo "Patel's broad treatment helps the layman connect the dots, as well as hear the voices of those who occupy the lower rungs of the global food chain."—Time Magazine"A blistering indictment of the policies of multinational agribusiness conglomerates and charges that their drive for profit at any cost has left the developing world starving while wealthy countries like the United States are experiencing epidemic obesity rates and related health problems."—Newsweek "For Patel, it is a short step from Western consumers 'engorged and intoxicated' with cheap processed food to Mexican and Indian farmers committing suicide because they can’t make a living. farm
farm policy and the ability of the world's poor to feed themselves, Stuffed and Starved is indispensable."—Michael Pollan, author of The Omnivore's DilemmaIt’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. 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.. 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. 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. Revised and Expanded Edition"For anyone attempting to make sense of the world food crisis, or understand the links between U.S. 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 dodge
"the malnutrition of the poor in urban communities should be an important point as" according to Victoria. I am currently a senior chemical engineer taking a food science class. I have learned about food distribution and accessibility issues through trips to Nicaragua and an urban development class. Both of these looked at the economic issues people in these groups faces but never the emotional and mental toll hunger has. I am thankful that this book opened up my eyes to the emotional trauma farmers go through due to the globalization of crops. Throughout reading the book, I realized that a lot of the things that Patel was talking about were things I think most people already know but choose to actively ignore when purchasing food, know but are no. Recommending Stuffed and Starved. This is an excellent book, logical, full of information and clearly written. For years, I have had serious doubts and alternative thoughts about our modern society, and wondered how it is that most people seem to see it quite differently than I do. It was such a pleasure to read this book and have my thoughts expressed so well, and those doubts and questions answered. I never thought I could read a book about economics and not go to sleep or give up in disgust, but I practically swallowed this one in one gulp and wished for more.My only criticism of the book is that there are a few typos and bungled sentences.. Very thought provoking look at food and who produces genuine food. You probably have no accurate idea about how your food is produced and by whom - - around the world. Michael Pollen changed how we think about food itself in his Omnivore 's Dilemma. Joel Salatin and many others have shown how it should be grown. Now, Patel lays out the economics of the food industry under which both the people who physically do the farming and those who buy food suffer, while all is controlled by a very few corporations that reap the big profits and government agencies that help them do it.Patel argues for a return to the beauty of locally and/or personally grown food (animal and vegetable), it's loving preparation in the ki