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Stuffed and starved : from farm to fork the hidden battle for the world food system

Explains the political and economic reasons behind the simultaneous hunger and obesity epidemics worldwide, and describes what is being done to eliminate these disparities.

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  • "市場權力以及世界時務體系的隱形之戰"
  • "Shi chang quan li yi ji shi jie shi wu ti xi de yin xing zhi zhan"
  • "Markets, power and the hidden battle for the world food system"
  • "Stuffed & starved"
  • "Stuffed & starved"@en
  • "Stuffed and starved"
  • "市場.權力以及世界食物體系的隱形之戰"
  • "市場.權力以及世界時務體系的隱形之戰"
  • "Shi chang. quan li yi ji shi jie shi wu ti xi de yin xing zhi zhan"
  • "Shi chang.quan li yi ji shi jie shi wu ti xi de yin xing zhi zhan"
  • "Stuffed and starved: markets,power and the hidden battle for the world food system"

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  • "Here's a book that takes Jamie's Dinners, Supersize Me, mangoes in the Arctic Circle and McFatties, and puts them in a blender to make an intoxicating cocktail. Stuffed and Starved takes us into the supermarket aisles and reveals the stories behind the products in our trolleys, some of them very dark indeed. Raj Patel's definitive account of the global food system ranges across GM crops, history and export issues, rising levels of obesity and other health crises. It's a mad world where we encounter Coca Cola "cosmeceuticals" that promise to improve complexion and breast size, where Nestlé owns Jenny Craig - and Unilever, home of Ben and Jerry's icecream, owns Slimfast. It is also a positive story of resistance in the paddy fields of India, the maize ejidos of Mexico and the Italian Slow Food kitchens, to name but a few. This is a groundbreaking look and the people and products of the New Food Order."
  • "Explains the political and economic reasons behind the simultaneous hunger and obesity epidemics worldwide, and describes what is being done to eliminate these disparities."@en
  • "Explains the political and economic reasons behind the simultaneous hunger and obesity epidemics worldwide, and describes what is being done to eliminate these disparities."
  • "At no other time in history have people in wealthy countries had so much choice and so much abundance in what to eat. But in countries locked in a vicious cycle of poverty, there is no choice. There is no food. Raj Patel shows us that these two extremes are deeply and inextricably linked. In Stuffed and Starved, he asks us to think about the way our food comes to us, to understand how what we buy directly affects the world's poorest citizens and to recognize how we ourselves are poisoned by our choices. Patel gives us a broad view of the global food industry and the all-encompassing machine composed of organizations such as the World Bank and the WTO, corporate lobbyists, government agencies and the all-powerful distribution networks. He also traces the specific journey of coffee, soy and high-fructose corn syrup, from the fields to the kitchens of fast-food restaurants. Stuffed and Starved is a shocking and timely story of commercial greed, desperate hunger and inspirational alternatives to the current food system."@en
  • "Today, in the West, we appear to have the world on our plates, regardless of source or season. But this apparent luxury of choice is only possible because rural communities the world over have had their choices taken away. To understand how our supermarket shopping makes us complicit in denying freedom to the world's poorest, and how we ourselves are poisoned by our choices, we need to think about the way our food comes to us. Having worked with international policy makers, visited local farming collectives in Brazil and Mexico, investigated the all-powerful distribution networks, and gone behind the scenes in the kitchens of Europe's McDonald's restaurants, Raj Patel is able to take a long and wide view of food production and tell the story of commercial greed and helpless hunger that lies behind every meal we eat."
  • ""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."
  • "Completely updated and revised edition of one of the most widely-praised food books of recent years. 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."@en

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  • "Stuffed and Starved : Markets, Power and the Hidden Battle for the World Food System System"
  • "Liang shi zhan zheng"
  • "Stuffed and starved : from farm to fork the hidden battle for the world food system"@en
  • "Stuffed and starved : from farm to fork the hidden battle for the world food system"
  • "Stuffed and starved the hidden battle for the world food system"
  • "Stuffed and starved the hidden battle for the world food system"@en
  • "Stuffed and starved : the hidden battle for the world food system"@en
  • "Stuffed and starved : the hidden battle for the world food system"
  • "Liang shi zhan zheng = Stuffed and starved : markets, power and the hidden battle for the world food system"
  • "Stuffed and starved : from farm to fork : the hidden battle for the world food system"
  • "Stuffed and starved : the hidden battle for the world's food system"@en
  • "Stuffed and starved : the hidden battle for the world's food system"
  • "Stuffed and starved : from farm to fork, the hidden battle for the world food system"
  • "Obesos y famélicos el impacto de la globalización en el sistema alimentario mundial"@es
  • "Stuffed and starved : markets, powers and the hidden battle for the world food system"
  • "Liang shi zhan zheng : shi chang.quan li yi ji shi jie shi wu ti xi de yin xing zhi zhan = Stuffed and starved: markets, power and the hidden battle for the world food system"
  • "糧食戰爭 : 市場.權力以及世界時務體系的隱形之戰 = Stuffed and starved: markets, power and the hidden battle for the world food system"
  • "Stuffed and starved markets, power and the hidden battle for the world food system"@en
  • "Stuffed & starved : markets, power & the hidden battle for the world food system"
  • "Stuffed and starved markets, power and the hidden battle for the world's food system"@en
  • "糧食戰爭"
  • "Stuffed and starved : Markets, power and the hidden battle for the world food system"
  • "Stuffed and Starved the Hidden Battle for the World Food System"@en
  • "Obesos y famélicos : el impacto de la globalización en el sistema alimentario mundial"
  • "Stuffed and starved : from farm to fork; the hidden battle for the world food system"
  • "糧食戰爭 = Stuffed and starved : markets, power and the hidden battle for the world food system"
  • "Stuffed and starved : markets, power and the hidden battle for the world food system"
  • "Stuffed and starved : markets, power and the hidden battle for the world food system"@en
  • "粮食战争"
  • "Stuffed & starved : markets, power and the hidden battle for the world food system"

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