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Abstract:
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A rural autopsy -- You have become Mexican -- 'Just a cry for bread' -- The customer is our enemy: a brief introduction to food system business -- Better living through chemistry -- Glycine rex -- Checking out of supermarkets -- Chosen by bunnies.
"It's a perverse fact: There are more people starving in the world than ever before (800 million) while there are also more people overweight (1 billion). To find out how we got to this point and what we can do about it, Raj Patel launched an investigation into the global food network." "What he found was shocking: from the false choices given us by supermarkets to a global epidemic of farmer suicides and the real reasons for famine in Asia and Africa. Going beyond ethical consumerism, Patel explains, fro
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