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Stuffed and Starved: The Hidden Battle for the World Food System
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 338.19
EAN: 9781933633497
Edition: 398
ISBN: 1933633492
Label: Melville House
Manufacturer: Melville House
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 448
Publication Date: April 25, 2008
Publisher: Melville House
Studio: Melville House
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Editorial Review:“One of the most dazzling books I have read in a very long time. The product of a brilliant mind and a gift to a world hungering for justice.”—Naomi Klein, author of No Logo and The Shock DoctrineHalf the world is malnourished, the other half obese—both symptoms of the corporate food monopoly. To show how a few powerful distributors control the health of the entire world, Raj Patel conducts a global investigation, traveling from the “green deserts” of Brazil and protester-packed streets of South Korea to bankrupt Ugandan coffee farms and barren fields of India. What he uncovers is shocking—the real reasons for famine in Asia and Africa, an epidemic of farmer suicides, and the false choices and conveniences in supermarkets. Yet he also finds hope—in international resistance movements working to create a more democratic, sustainable, and joyful food system.From seed to store to plate, Stuffed and Starved explains the steps to regain control of the global food economy, stop the exploitation of farmers and consumers, and rebalance global sustenance.RAJ PATEL, policy analyst for Food First, a leading food think tank, is a visiting scholar at the UC Berkeley Center for African Studies. He has written for the Los Angeles Times and the Guardian, and though he has worked for the World Bank, WTO, and the UN, he’s also been tear-gassed on four continents protesting them.
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Rating:  - A Disappointing Polemic
I won't cover the same ground as Mr. Vannoni did. His review is spot on. I wish I had seen it before I bought this book.
Readers should know first that the book's title is cleverly misleading. The book is only tangentially about the unhealthy make-up of the modern diet and the agribusiness oligopolies that have created it.
Instead, author Patel seems to be mainly concerned with fixing blame for the world's food problems, and that blame rests almost exclusively with ... Read More
Rating:  - required reading
A very digestible read for the consumer that's liable to provoke dyspepsia in the bellies of food giants and governments alike.
In taking a moralistic view of starvation and obesity, our media, governments and many NGOs have condemned those suffering to more of the same. While the institutional causes remain unaddressed - in large part thanks to public sector responsibility being abdicated to private sector interests - we can only expect more headlines about food riots and editorials on farmer ... Read More
Rating: - The world food crisis explained
The price of food is skyrocketing. There are food riots emerging across the globe. It's a crisis that threatens the stability of some governments. Why is this happening? Raj Patel explains how we got here in this remarkably prophetic book. And he's not afraid to name the bad guys. Patel has deservedly emerged as one of the top experts on this crisis, and he writes with an abundance of passion and wit.
-Kemble Scott, editor, SoMa Literary Review
Rating: - A big disappointment
I bought this book with high hopes and was disappointed within 50 pages.
I will share general reasons as well as specific instances.
First, the title is misleading. Throughout the book the author hints at people in developed countries having a poor choice and quality of food. However, you wont find anywhere an explicit and sustained narrative about the conditions that would link the "stuffed" north to the "starved" south.
Secondly, we are left with the impression ... Read More
Rating: - Patel Stuffs Readers, In a Good Way
In his new book, "Stuffed and Starved," Raj Patel hits a nerve, or rather a whole digestive system worth of nerves. Until late, these two hot topics-obesity and the food crisis- were discussed separately. Patel's research shows why and how there are now more obese people than ever before, and more starving people. Patel takes an original view and places the blame not just on the governments, but on their famous trade agreements that we all thought were so fabulous-NAFTA ring a bell? He discusses how the ... Read More
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