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

Stuffed and Starved: The Hidden Battle for the World Food System - Revised and Updated - Paperback

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Availability:In StockContributor:Raj PatelPublish date:2012-06-05Pages:432
Language:EnglishPublisher:Melville House PublishingISBN-13:9781612191270ISBN-10:1612191274UPC:9781612191270Book Category:Social Science, Business & EconomicsBook Subcategory:Agriculture & Food, IndustriesBook Topic:Agribusiness, Food IndustrySize:8.20 x 5.40 x 1.30 inchesWeight:0.851Product ID:SCTD82YV8W
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"For anyone attempting to make sense of the world food crisis, or understand the links between U.S. 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 Dilemma

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 the steps, from seed to store to plate, to regain control of the global food economy, stop the exploitation of both farmers and consumers, and rebalance global sustenance.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Melville House PublishingISBN-13:9781612191270ISBN-10:1612191274UPC:9781612191270Book Category:Social Science, Business & EconomicsBook Subcategory:Agriculture & Food, IndustriesBook Topic:Agribusiness, Food IndustrySize:8.20 x 5.40 x 1.30 inchesWeight:0.851Product ID:SCTD82YV8W
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, Austin and a Senior Research Associate at the Unit for the Humanities at the university currently known as Rhodes University (UHURU), South Africa.
Publisher: Melville House Publishing

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