Sinossi
Circa un miliardo di persone nel mondo è denutrito. Un altro miliardo è obeso. Quasi metà della popolazione mondiale vive quotidianamente il problema di un'alimentazione insufficiente. L'altra metà soffre dei tipici problemi legati a un'alimentazione sovrabbondante e alle disfunzioni che ne derivano: diabete, eccesso di peso, problemi cardiocircolatori. È un paradosso? Solo apparente, argomenta Raj Patel, perché questo stato di cose è l'inevitabile corollario di un sistema che consente solo a un pugno di grandi corporation di trarre profitto dall'intera catena alimentare mondiale. Questo volume è un'indagine che svela per la prima volta i retroscena della guerra in corso per il controllo delle risorse alimentari: un vero e proprio giro del mondo che spazia dall'aumento dei suicidi tra i contadini asiatici alle sventurate conseguenze degli accordi commerciali tra Messico e Stati Uniti, dell'emergere dei movimenti dei senza terra in Brasile al fallimento di molte produzioni agricole africane, fino a toccare le sofisticate tecniche di manipolazione dei consumatori nel ricco Nord del mondo.
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- Pagine: 286
- Data di uscita: 06-05-2015
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Saying: READ THIS BOOK! is the most logical place to begin this review. Seriously. Read it. This is an incredibly nuanced look at the global food market. He addresses everything from rural poverty, failure, and farmer suicide (in the Global North and Global South) to the bottlenecks in our global fo Leggi tutto
I really wanted to like this book! I really wanted to read it to the last page without skimming. The subject matter is fascinating to me--the food politics of the US and the rest of the world. It seem that Patel and I have a lot of similar opinions about many things, such as the WTO, NAFTA, and the
When I first saw this book in our local bookstore, I was interested in its purported claim to trace the intricacies in the power structure surrounding global food production/distribution. As a broad primer about the different ways in which campesinos growing soy in Brazil, Koreans fighting against t Leggi tutto
An interesting book that examines the intricacies of the industrial food complex. Patel starts with the story of growers around the world, then follows the food through suppliers, distributors, supermarkets and finally to our dinner tables. Patel analyzes how the food dollars are distributed, as wel Leggi tutto
This book differs from other food politics books I've read in that it addresses the issues from a much more global perspective. I learned a lot about peasant/farmer movements, and really found that first part of the book pretty engaging. Things start to fall apart, however, when Patel starts to move Leggi tutto
The public understanding of where our food comes from is deeply misinformed, rooted more in a pastoral myth than in reality. The real story of our supermarket shelves is complex, but in Stuffed and Starved Raj Patel expertly guides the reader through the systems of modern food production to reveal t Leggi tutto
I’ve been aware of and fascinated by a modern paradox for a while. For the first time in human history, a growing number of people are obese and suffering a form of malnutrition. By eating a diet composed mostly of empty calories, people will gain weight but still practically starve. Raj Patel explo Leggi tutto
I think people need to read the intro and conclusion of this book. Otherwise, I kind of wish I was reading the work of the activists he was talking about more than his synthesis of it, but it’s a great overview!
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