Raj Patel is an award-winning author, film-maker and academic. He is a Research Professor in the Lyndon B Johnson School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas, Austin and a Senior Research Associate at the Unit for the Humanities at the university currently known as Rhodes University (UHURU), South Africa.
"Compelling. At first glance, Raj is another depressing voice in
the chorus. But in traveling the world researching the book, he
also found hope in international social movements working to create
more democratic, sustainable, and joyful food systems."
—Mark Bittman, New York Times
"For Patel, it is a short step from Western consumers 'engorged and
intoxicated' with cheap processed food to Mexican and Indian
farmers committing suicide because they can’t make a living. The
'food industry’s pabulum' makes us all cogs in an evil
machine."
—The New Yorker
"Patel's broad treatment helps the layman connect the dots, as well
as hear the voices of those who occupy the lower rungs of the
global food chain."
—Time Magazine
"A blistering indictment of the policies of multinational
agribusiness conglomerates and charges that their drive for profit
at any cost has left the developing world starving while wealthy
countries like the United States are experiencing epidemic obesity
rates and related health problems."
—Newsweek
"A book full of insight, that makes an important contribution to
understanding that the politics of food is not a narrow matter of
shopping, ethical or otherwise."
—The Guardian
"For anyone attempting to make sense of the world food
crisis, or understand the links between U.S. farm policy and the
ability of the world's poor to feed themselves, Stuffed and Starved
is indispensable."
—Michael Pollan, author of The Omnivore's Dilemma
“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.”
—Naomi Klein, author of No Logo
"Stuffed and Starved remains a brilliant didactic account of
the powerful interests (dis)organizing our food systems, and why,
when food is an object of profit, there are
no modern solutions to modern problems such as
endemic hunger, ill-health and environmental degradation...Raj
Patel’s unique sensibility and intelligence in evaluating
grassroots alternatives provide a road map to understanding and
changing the world through re-centering food as a cultural anchor
rather than a product, especially at this moment of environmental
uncertainty."
—Philip David McMichael, author of Development and
Social Change
"With its conversational tone, sense of humor, and real-life
vignettes from the author's travels around the world, the book is
accessible to general readers and will be as classroom-friendly as
Michael Pollan's Omnivore's Dilemma."
—Reference and Research Book News
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