Stuffed and Starved
The Hidden Battle for the World Food System

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......more

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......more

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......more

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......more

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......more