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by Raj Patel (Author)
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  • Hardcover: 438 pages
  • Publisher: Portobello Books Ltd; illustrated edition edition (13 Sep 2007)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1846270103
  • ISBN-13: 978-1846270109
  • Product Dimensions: 23.2 x 16.4 x 4 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 71,156 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Patel's broad treatment helps laymen connect the dots, [and] hear the voices of those [at the bottom] of the food-chain


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Patel's range is impressive...This is a book full of insight, that makes an important contribution

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5.0 out of 5 stars Astonishing, 25 Sep 2007
I searched hard for this book because I couldn't wait for it to come out in the USA. Normally when I work that hard to find a book, it doesn't live up to my expectations. S&S exceeded my wildest hopes for astonishment. Patel's radical hypothesis is that 1 billion starving and 1 billion fat is inevitable to the market logic of capitalism where a small number of corporations control the entire food growing, distribution, and selling network. Poor people are squeezed for every hour of labor, and rich countries are squeezed for every dollar they will spend, leading to an efficient system that runs poor farmers to the edge of starvation, and markets high-fat, cheaply made, poisoned food to the rest of us. Patel marshals an extraordinary range of evidence to show how this works at every level, and where the soft underbelly of this system is susceptible to positive change by grass roots movements. This would make an excellent documentary TV series. Much more enlightening than the other books I've read on this subject. I come away convinced that the greatest moral choice I can make is not how I vote or what I drive, but what I chose to eat.
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12 of 13 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars A very well written and absolutely compelling read, 5 Oct 2007
By Red Reader "Red Reader" (Jo'burg, South Africa) - See all my reviews
Having read some of Patel's very highly regarded journalism and academic work in South Africa I ordered this book with high expectations. I wasn't disappointed. This book is exceptionally well written and an absolute pleasure to read. But, more importantly, is is one of the very few of the popular anti-globalizations books written from the global South - this book is genuinely internationalist. That's a very welcome relief.

It also brings together a dazzling range of facts and stories, perhaps a little bit like Mike Davis in its sometimes just plain awesome ambitions and scope.

And the actual content of its analysis, the politics of the global food system, is undertaken brilliantly. As far as I know this is the first serious internationalist critique of the global food system and its devastating. But its not just bleak - the stories of resistance are inspiring. It seems that this book will become something like the 'No Logo' for a new generation of activists and critical thinkers. I certainly hope so.

Qina!
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5.0 out of 5 stars An Eye Opener for You and Me, 5 Dec 2007
By Marie G. (Brisbane, Australia) - See all my reviews
I've found this book amazing. I've read it, and read it again, and got it for the Christmas socks of those who are willing to see beyond the shelves of the supermarkets. If you are a supermarket customer, if you have an opinion on GM crops, whatever this opinion is, if you would like to know more about what you eat and drink, where it comes from and why you eat and drink it, then this book is definitely for you!
Extremely well documented, this is a life-changing experience. I can't wait for the next one. Good on you Raj!
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Everytime someone shoves me in the frozen food aisle at Sainsbury's, or I see a picture Gordon Brown smiling, or another 200 or 2000 troops get sent to Iraq - I think, "Screw it... Read more
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5.0 out of 5 stars Timely, wide-reaching and a real wake-up call
Excellent. A must read. Anyone who is interested in what they eat, where it comes from, and how it reaches us should read this book. And be very worried.
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