Stuffed and Starved The Hidden Battle for the World Food System - Revised and Updated

Name: Stuffed and Starved The Hidden Battle for the World Food System - Revised and Updated
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ISBN: 9781612191270

ISBN-10: 1612191274

ISBN-13: 9781612191270

Edition: 2nd 2012

Authors: Raj Patel

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How can starving people also be obese?Why does everything have soy in it?How do petrochemicals and biofuels control the price of food?It's a perverse fact of modern life: There are more starving people in the world than ever before (800 million) while there are also more people overweight (1 billion).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…

Book details

List price: $21.99
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Melville House Publishing
Publication date: 6/5/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 432
Size: 5.47" wide x 8.26" long x 1.05" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English



Preface to the Second Edition



Introduction


Our Big Fat Contradiction


Arcadia Lost


About Joe


An Hourglass Figure


Ways of Being Free


The Menu of Chapters



A Rural Autopsy


And on That Farm He Had a Wife


Crooked Fictions


Debtward Ho


After Despair


Did the WTO Kill Lee Kyung Hae?


Some Farmers Are Pushed


But Where Does It Stop?



You Have Become Mexican


NAFTA and After


Corn for the Rich Men Only


Once Were Farmers


Beyond a Border


The Wrong Explanation


Bringing Agriculture to the City of Angels


Lee Again



'Just a Cry for Bread'


A Secret History of Refreshment


Rhodes' Conundrum


The Cold War for Food


After Food Aid


The World Trade Organization



The Customer is Our Enemy: A Brief Introduction to Food System Business


Permanent Banana Republic: The United Fruit Company


Varieties of Consolidation


The Market for Political Favour


Dwayne Andreas and the Currying of National Interest



Better Living through Chemistry


The Knowledge and the Initiative


Who Knows What


Corporations Address the Needs of the Poor


I'd Like to Thank the Academy


For Africa!


Making up Makhathini


Better Through Living Chemistry



Glycine Rex


Secret Ingredient


A Whole Hill of Beans


Learning the Soy Samba


The Perfect Storm


Blairo Maggi-Poster Soy


The View from Afar


The Perils of National Development


The World's Most Important Social Movement


Bringing It Home



Checking out of Supermarkets


The Self-Serving Store


Almost Orwell


666 and All That


Discipline in the Aisles


Walmart


Supply Chain-gangs


The Contradictions of Convenience


Every Cloud Has a Redlining


Shelves of Love


In the Garden of the Black Panthers



Chosen by Bunnies


On Places and Taste and Food


Food Is from Mars


Wheat is Murder


Hooked on TV Dinners


The Now of Chow


War on the Obese


Feeling the Burn


Your Pace or Mine?


Anti-Malbouffe



Conclusion


Inside the Hourglass


It's Just We, Ourselves and Us


Follow the Leader


Notes


References


Acknowledgements


Permissions


Index