Stuffed and Starved: The Hidden Battle for the World Food System
Written by Raj Patel
Narrated by Nigel Patterson
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About this audiobook
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.
Raj Patel
Raj Patel was educated at Oxford, the London School of Economics and Cornell University. He is currently a fellow at the Institute for Food and Development Policy in Oakland, California, a visiting researcher at the University of KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa and a visiting scholar at the Center for African Studies at the University of California at Berkeley. He has worked for the World Bank, interned at the WTO, consulted for the UN and been involved in international campaigns against his former employers. Visit Raj Patel at www.rajpatel.org.
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Reviews for Stuffed and Starved
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- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Raj Patel brings a colloquial, humorous writing style to a complex and generally rather depressing subject: the domination of the world's food supply by corporations who are blind to their human and environmental effects in the rush for profits. He does hold out some nuggets of hope in the form of co-operative movements and community supported agriculture schemes, but the overall picture is still a grim one. While some of the ground he covers is familiar from other writers on the subject, there were a number of areas that were new to me: the problems with soybeans in particular. And I'd never really thought of the British predilection for milky sweet tea as a driver for the slave trade before. I liked Patel's very international perspective.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5A good but uneven summary of the problems with our food system.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5This is a great overview of the many problems with our current precarious food stuation and the ways in which policy shapes our palates! I found some of the examples lacking in detail, and much of the book was old news for me. But the bibliography and many great links to more information are well worth the price of the book. An outstanding resource and introduction to the topic of food sovereignity.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5An essential read for anyone who cares what they eat and where it comes from.