STUFFED AND STARVED: Markets, Choice and the Battle for the World's Food System

Name: STUFFED AND STARVED: Markets, Choice and the Battle for the World's Food System
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ISBN: 9780002008112

ISBN-10: 0002008114

ISBN-13: 9780002008112

Edition: 2008

Authors: Raj Patel

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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…

Book details

List price: $29.95
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Renouf Pub Co Ltd
Binding: Cloth Text
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.25" long x 1.50" tall
Weight: 1.584
Language: English