Stuffed and Starved by Raj Patel

Stuffed and Starved by Raj Patel

Revised and Expanded Edition

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.

Raj Patel is a Research Professor in the Lyndon B Johnson School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin, as well as a professor in the university's nutrition department and a Research Associate at Rhodes University in South Africa. He is the author of Stuffed and Starved, The Value of Nothing, and A History of the World in Seven Cheap Items, as well as co-author of A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things. He is a prominent thinker and organizer around the Green New Deal and is a James Beard Leadership Award winner. He is also working on a film about the global food system and is a James Beard Leadership Award winner. He is a member of the International Panel of Experts on Sustainable Food Systems and has provided advice to governments around the world on the causes and solutions to sustainability challenges.

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ISBN 13	9781612191270
ISBN 10	1612191274
Title	Stuffed and Starved
Author	Raj Patel
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Melville House Publishing
Year published	2012-06-05
Number of pages	432
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