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Gristmill (Free subscription) | 09/06/2008
By Tom Philpott Raj Patel , author of the searing book Stuffed and Starved: The Hidden Battle for the World Food System , is one of the most trenchant critics of industrial food. According to Patel, one billion people in the world don't have enough to eat, while another billion suffer from the consequences of too many low-quality calories. The phenomena are the result of a food system...
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San Fransisco Chronicle (Free subscription) | 09/04/2008
Some of the statistics Potrero Hill author Raj Patel includes in his book, "Stuffed & Starved: The Hidden Battle for the World Food System," can turn the stomach: At the same time 800 million people are going hungry on our planet, 1 billion of us are...
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Peak Energy (Free subscription) | 08/26/2008
Raj Patel of "Stuffed and Starved" reports that a state government in India is recommending local residents eat rats to avoid starvation (or "reduce dependence on rice" as they obliquely put it) - Let Them Eat Rats . Back in the 1990's I lived in a place called Chung King Mansions (the last word being spectacularly inaccurate) in Hong Kong for a while, which had a small collection of Indian...
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Indybay newswire (Free subscription) | 08/11/2008
Raj Patel, Activist; Academic; Author, Stuffed and Starved In conversation with Dan Imhoff, Author and Publisher, Food Fight; Director, Watershed Media; Host, "Farm and Garden Show" Stuffed: Obesity is the second leading cause of preventable death in the United States, and over 60 percent of us are considered overweight. Starved: Worldwide, nearly a billion people are starving to death, and 35 million...
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Indybay newswire (Free subscription) | 08/01/2008
Thursday, July 31, 2008 : Talks to expand the World Trade Organization have collapsed after a week of negotiations. The talks broke down in part because India and other developing nations demanded the right to protect their farming sectors against heavily subsidized imports. The US refused to accept the protections and insisted on giving US corporations greater access to markets in India, China and...
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The Guardian (Free subscription) | 07/30/2008
Raj Patel: After the collapse of the Doha round, disappointment is turning to recrimination. But what did poor countries have to gain anyway?
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The Guardian (Free subscription) | 07/31/2008
Raj Patel: Even if the Doha round is dead, the WTO lives on, changed in composition, unchanged in priority
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The Guardian (Free subscription) | 07/29/2008
Ed Pilkington talks to the soothsayer of agro-economics, Raj Patel, about what will happen when the food finally runs out
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The Rage Diaries (Free subscription) | 09/03/2008
... of—the organization have grown tired of the knee-jerk charge of elitism, a nuanced critic like Raj Patel, a visiting scholar at the Center for African Studies at UC Berkeley, is hard to ignore. As he describes in his book Stuffed and Starved , Slow Food in the States has chosen mostly to ignore the social-justice component of Petrini’s message, essentially becoming an exclusive dining club—at...
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Indybay newswire (Free subscription) | 08/21/2008
... first, second, and always. When you think about it, isn't this a perversity of democracy? In Raj Patel's brilliant new book, Stuffed & Starved: The Hidden Battle for the World Food System (Brooklyn, NY: Melville House Publ., 2008) we find a telling quotation from Robert Strauss, the former head of the Democratic National Committee, describing his relationship with the agricultural business...
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green LA girl (Free subscription) | 08/18/2008
> Swimming pool owners reduced to cleaning their own swimming pools! > > The high price of arugula at Whole Foods isn’t the biggest food problem in the world, according to Paul Roberts and Raj Patel. “Both authors lament that, in today’s world, superabundance paradoxically exists alongside persistent global hunger.” (via 3qd) > > Bloggers encouraged to blog [...]
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3quarksdaily (Free subscription) | 08/17/2008
From The Washington Post: If you think the biggest food problems you are ever likely to face are safety issues like outbreaks of salmonella (spinach in 2006, tomatoes and jalapeno peppers this summer) and the high cost of organic produce, you're woefully naive. Because, as Paul Roberts and Raj Patel will tell you, the food we eat is part of a global system, one made possible by international...
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Daily Mail (Free subscription) | 08/10/2008
In the shanty towns of Haiti, people are eating mud cakes. Here RAJ PATEL explains how the world food crisis has reduced humans to this.
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Daily Mail on Sunday (Free subscription) | 08/10/2008
In the shanty towns of Haiti, people are eating mud cakes. Here RAJ PATEL explains how the world food crisis has reduced humans to this.
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Daily Mail (Free subscription) | 08/09/2008
In the shanty towns of Haiti, people are eating mud cakes. Here RAJ PATEL explains how the world food crisis has reduced humans to this.
