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Title: Stuffed and Starved
Subtitle: The Hidden Battle for the World Food System
Author: Raj Patel
Narrator: Nigel Patterson
Format: Unabridged
Length: 10 hrs and 47 mins
Language: English
Release date: 01-24-18
Publisher: Tantor Audio
Genres: Business, Commerce & Economy
Publisher's Summary:
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.
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Members Reviews:
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 kitchen, and it's return to being a means of gathering family and community together. We need to slow down a bit.
When you learn the true costs of the food you are eating I hope you might rethink some of your choices.
Stuffed and Starved is not long - - and well worth your time to read it.
One of the most important books that I have ever read. Highly recommended.
Thereâs a medical doctor that has read countless books in nutrition and food politics, this was amazing and a step above much of the other box. Greatly under rated and an important, insightful, and eye-opening read that I suggest anyone moderately curious should go ahead and read it as soon as possible. I was impressed at the range and depths of topics discussed. One of the most important books that I have ever read. Highly recommended.
Reclaiming our food rights
"Stuffed and Starved" by Raj Patel is an ambitious piece of research and critical analysis of the world food system. As both a seasoned policy analyst and news reporter, Mr. Patel's thinking has been enriched through interactions with farmers, businesspeople, policymakers, and activists in four continents. Sharing his thoughts and experiences in an intelligent, mature and accessible manner, Mr. Patel contends that the corporate dominance of the global food production and distribution system must be challenged at the pain of pushing humanity into an ever more insecure and unsustainable future.
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