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Stuffed and Starved: The Hidden Battle for the World Food System
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Stuffed and Starved: The Hidden Battle for the World Food System, It's A Perverse Fact: There are more people starving 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 comprehensi, Stuffed and Starved: The Hidden Battle for the World Food System
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  • Stuffed and Starved: The Hidden Battle for the World Food System
  • Written by author Raj Patel
  • Published by Melville House Publishing, 6/5/2012
  • It's A Perverse Fact: There are more people starving 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 comprehensi
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Preface to the Second Edition 1

1 Introduction 9

Our Big Fat Contradiction 9

Arcadia Lost 14

About Joe 16

An Hourglass Figure 19

Ways of Being Free 23

The Menu of Chapters 26

2 A Rural Autopsy 29

And on That Farm He Had a Wife 29

Crooked Fictions 35

Debtward Ho 39

After Despair 42

Did the WTO Kill Lee Kyung Hae? 45

Some Farmers Are Pushed 49

But Where Does It Stop? 51

3 You Have Become Mexican 55

NAFTA and After 56

Corn for the Rich Men Only 62

Once Were Farmers 66

Beyond a Border 70

The Wrong Explanation 73

Bringing Agriculture to the City of Angels 79

Lee Again 81

4 'Just a Cry for Bread' 83

A Secret History of Refreshment 84

Rhodes' Conundrum 92

The Cold War for Food 96

After Food Aid 99

The World Trade Organization 104

5 The Customer is Our Enemy: A Brief Introduction to Food System Business 107

Permanent Banana Republic: The United Fruit Company 107

Varieties of Consolidation 110

The Market for Political Favour 116

Dwayne Andreas and the Currying of National Interest 119

6 Better Living through Chemistry 129

The Knowledge and the Initiative 130

Who Knows What 141

Corporations Address the Needs of the Poor 145

I'd Like to Thank the Academy 151

For Africa! 156

Making up Makhathini 162

Better Through Living Chemistry 167

7 Glycine Rex 173

Secret Ingredient 173

A Whole Hill of Beans 176

Learning the Soy Samba 181

The Perfect Storm 188

Blairo Maggi-Poster Soy 194

The View from Afar 201

The Perils of National Development 208

The World's Most Important Social Movement 211

Bringing It Home 219

8 Checking out of Supermarkets 221

The Self-Serving Store 222

Almost Orwell 229

666 and All That 232

Discipline in the Aisles 236

Walmart 237

Supply Chain-gangs 242

The Contradictions of Convenience 243

Every Cloud Has a Redlining 248

Shelves of Love 250

In the Garden of the Black Panthers 253

9 Chosen by Bunnies 259

On Places and Taste and Food 259

Food Is from Mars 261

Wheat is Murder 265

Hooked on TV Dinners 268

The Now of Chow 272

War on the Obese 278

Feeling the Burn 283

Your Pace or Mine? 286

Anti-Malbouffe 292

10 Conclusion 299

Inside the Hourglass 299

It's Just We, Ourselves and Us 306

Follow the Leader 321

Notes 325

References 367

Acknowledgements 403

Permissions 409

Index 411


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