[Scpg] interview w/ author of "Stuffed & Starved" re food riots, collapse of food system

[LBUZZELL at aol.com]

Re: food riots around the world and the collapse of the global food  system.
 
Raj Patel, the author of the new book "Stuffed & Starved," which  addresses 
the collapse of the world food system, is interviewed today on  Democracy Now.  
To listen or watch, go to _www.democracynow.org_ 
(http://www.democracynow.org)  and go about 45  minutes into the program.  The second part of this 
interview will be  broadcast later this week.  
 
The author connects all the dots: global climate change, oil prices, free  
trade agreements that discourage small, sustainable farming, the expense of  
petroleum-based (and toxic) pesticides and herbicides, the distances food is  
shipped, the rise in meat-eating in developing countries, the insanity of  
biofuels like ethanol which cause food prices to rise, the epidemics of  obesity 
amid starvation, farmer suicides, etc. The issues of overpopulation  and 
planetary overshoot haven't been mentioned yet, but perhaps in the next  installment...
 
Linda 
 
    *   _Stuffed and Starved: As Food Riots Break Out Across the Globe,  Raj 
Patel Details "The Hidden Battle for the World Food  System"_ 
(http://www.democracynow.org/2008/4/8/stuffed_and_starved_as_food_riots) 
Global food prices have risen dramatically, adding a new level of danger to  
the crisis of world hunger. In Africa, food riots have swept across the  
continent, with recent protests in Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Ivory Coast,  Mauritania 
and Senegal. In most of West Africa, the price of food has risen by  50 
percent——in Sierra Leone, 300 percent. In the United States there has been  a 41 
percent surge in prices for wheat, corn, rice and other cereals over the  past 
six months. We speak with Raj Patel, author of "Stuffed and Starved: The  
Hidden Battle for the World Food  System.”




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