Stuffed and starved : markets, powers and the hidden battle for the world food system

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Stuffed and starved : markets, powers and the hidden battle for the world food system

Title remainder

markets, powers and the hidden battle for the world food system

Statement of responsibility

Raj Patel

Title variation

Stuffed & starved

Creator

• truePatel, Raj

Subject

• trueFood -- Marketing
• trueFood crops
• trueFood habits
• trueFood industry and trade

Language

eng

Summary

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 Nestl⥠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

Dewey number

338.19

Index

index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography