Condition - Good - Author inscribed on the inside 
Paperback
 
Here's a book that takes Jamie's Dinners, Supersize Me, mangoes in the Arctic Circle and McFatties, and puts them in a blender to make an intoxicating cocktail. Stuffed & Starved takes us into the supermarket aisles and reveals the stories behind the products in our trolleys, some of them very dark indeed. Raj Patel's definitive account of the global food system ranges across GM crops, fair trade, rising levels of obesity and other health crises. It's a mad world where we encounter Coca Cola "cosmeceuticals" that promise to improve complexion and breast size, where Nestlé owns Jenny Craig - and Unilever, home of Ben and Jerry's ice-cream, owns Slimfast. It is also a positive story of resistance in the paddy fields of India, the maize ejidos of Mexico and the Italian Slow Food kitchens, to name but a few. This is a groundbreaking look at the people and products of the New Food Order.
 
Raj Patel has worked for the World Bank, interned at the WTO, consulted for the UN and been involved in international campaigns against his former employ- ers. Currently a researcher at the University of Kwa- Zulu-Natal in South Africa and a visiting scholar at the Center for African Studies at the University of Califor- nia at Berkeley, his educa- tion includes degrees from Oxford, the London School of Economics & Cornell University. This is his first book.