Stuffed and Starved The Hidden Battle for the World Food System

Name: Stuffed and Starved The Hidden Battle for the World Food System
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ISBN: 9781933633497

ISBN-10: 1933633492

ISBN-13: 9781933633497

Edition: 2008

Authors: Raj Patel

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ldquo;One of the most dazzling books I have read in a very long time. The product of a brilliant mind and a gift to a world hungering for justice.rdquo;-Naomi Klein, author of No Logo and The Shock Doctrine Half the world is malnourished, the other half obese-both symptoms of the corporate food monopoly. To show how a few powerful distributors control the health of the entire world, Raj Patel conducts a global investigation, traveling from the ldquo;green desertsrdquo; of Brazil and protester-packed streets of South Korea to bankrupt Ugandan coffee farms and barren fields of India. What he uncovers is shocking-the real reasons for famine in Asia and Africa, an epidemic of farmer…

Book details

List price: $19.95
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Melville House Publishing
Publication date: 4/1/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 416
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.25" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 0.836
Language: English




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


Wal-Mart


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