Stuffed and starved : the hidden battle for the world food system / Raj Patel.
For those with enough money - and that's most of us in wealthier countries - life is good. We can eat almost anything we want, regardless of where it comes from, what season it is or how much it costs. The world is our dish, laden with more foods than we've ever seen in history and more calories than we know what to do with. A continent away, there are more bloated bellies, but this time from malnutrition - seemingly due to a scarcity of food. But these two contrasting worlds are linked, deeply and inextricably. In a timely look at the entire global food chain, Stuffed and Starved asks us to think about the way our food comes to us, to understand how our supermarket shopping makes us complicit in denying freedom to the world's poorest and to recognize how we ourselves are poisoned by our choices.
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- ISBN: 9781554680115 :
- Physical Description: 438 p. ; 21 cm.
- Edition: Harper Perennial trade paperback ed.
- Publisher: Toronto : HarperCollins, 2009.
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General Note: | Originally published: 2007. |
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [467]-418) and index. |
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Subject: | Food supply. Food industry and trade. Poverty. Agriculture > Economic aspects. Agriculture > Social aspects. |
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