STUFFED AND STARVED by Raj Patel ( 9781846274794 ) - Books & Audio Books at Pickabook.co.uk

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Title:

STUFFED AND STARVED
FROM FARM TO FORK THE HIDDEN BATTLE FOR THE WORLD FOOD SYSTEM

By:

Raj Patel

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Paperback

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ISBN 10:

1846274796

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9781846274794

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Publisher:

GRANTA BOOKS

Pub. date:

1 January, 2013

Pages:

464

Description:

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

Synopsis:

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 of the fight against the unthinking commerce that brings it to us. In the wrecked paddy fields of India, in the soy deserts of Brazil, in the maize ejidos of Mexico, the supermarket aisles of California, French McDonald's and Italian kitchens, there's a worldwide resistance against unhealthy control of the food system.

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Portobello Books Ltd

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