Stuffed and Starved: The Hidden Battle for the World Food System

It's a perverse fact of modern life: There are more starving people in the world than ever before, while there are also more people who are overweight.



To find out how we got to this point and what we can do about it, Raj Patel launched a comprehensive investigation into the global food network. It took him from the colossal supermarkets of California to India's wrecked paddy-fields and Africa's bankrupt coffee farms, while along the way he ate genetically engineered soy beans and dodged fly...