Obesity in the times of hunger

Sun, Aug 24 03:16 AM

There are about 800 million hungry in the world. Coexisting on a planet that has a billion obese people at a time when record food is being produced. and Raj Patel, writer, activist and academic, someone who has both worked at the World Bank and WTO and been part of protests against them, makes a forceful argument in Stuffed and Starved, a book that has the world sit up and take notice as a global 'food crisis' looms even as the world produces record crops. For he graphically establishes how a comparatively small number of global food companies create a divide between those growing crops and those consuming them. Suman Tarafdar caught up with the currently Berkeley-based author as he explained how the modern industry gives a more sinister meaning to 'food chains'.

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