Raj Patel speaking at Cody's Books
5/16
Stuffed And Starved:
Raj Patel On The Politics Of Global Food Production
Friday May 16, 2008
7:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.
Cody's Bookstore
2201 Shattuck Avenue,
Berkeley
510-559-9500
Free admission
"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 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. What he uncovers is shocking-the
real reasons for famine in Asia and Africa, an epidemic of farmer
suicides, and the false choices and conveniences in supermarkets. Yet
he also finds hope-in international resistance movements working to
create a more democratic, sustainable, and joyful food system. From
seed to store to plate, STUFFED AND STARVED explains the steps to
regain control of the global food economy, stop the exploitation of
farmers and consumers, and rebalance global sustenance.
Raj Patel, a
fellow with Food First, a leading food think tank, is a visiting
scholar at the UC Berkeley Center for African Studies. He has written
for the Los Angeles Times and the Guardian, and though he has worked
for the World Bank, WTO, and the UN, he's also been tear-gassed on
four continents protesting them.
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