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Food Fights

By Jeremy Gantz

Globally, 1 billion overweight people coexist with 800 million starving people. That’s one of many perverse facts in Stuffed & Starved: The Hidden Battle for the World Food System (Melville House, April 2008, U.S. release), author Raj Patel’s searing indictment of the forces that shape what and how we eat. Patel is an ideal candidate to explain this tragic paradox: He… return to article

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