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Stuffed and Starved
Raj Patel
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Description for Stuffed and Starved
Paperback. A FULLY UPDATED AND REVISED NEW EDITION that reveals the hidden complexities and terrifying simplicities of a planet squeezing itself dry in order to make half its citizens obese and the other half malnourished Num Pages: 464 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: JPSL; KNAC; RNFF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 131 x 27. Weight in Grams: 298.
We have so much choice over what we eat today because rural communities all over the world have had their choices taken away. To understand how our supermarket shopping makes us complicit in a system that routinely denies freedom to the world's poorest, and how we ourselves are poisoned by these choices, we need to think about the way our food comes to us. Stuffed and Starved takes a long and wide view of food production, to show how we all suffer the consequences of a food system cooked to a corporate recipe. This is also the story ... Read more
We have so much choice over what we eat today because rural communities all over the world have had their choices taken away. To understand how our supermarket shopping makes us complicit in a system that routinely denies freedom to the world's poorest, and how we ourselves are poisoned by these choices, we need to think about the way our food comes to us. Stuffed and Starved takes a long and wide view of food production, to show how we all suffer the consequences of a food system cooked to a corporate recipe. This is also the story ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Portobello Books
Number of pages
464
Condition
New
Number of Pages
464
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781846274794
SKU
V9781846274794
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-10
About Raj Patel
RAJ PATEL is an award-winning writer, activist and academic. He has degrees from Oxford, the LSE and Cornell, has worked for the World Bank and WTO, and protested against them around the world. He's currently a visiting scholar at UC Berkeley's Center for African Studies, an Honorary Research Fellow at the School of Development Studies at the University of KwaZulu-Natal ... Read more
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