Friday, October 17, 2008

BLOG ACTION DAY: Stuffed and Starved: The Hidden Battle for the World Food System


Stuffed and Starved: The Hidden Battle for the World Food System.
by Raj Patel

Today is world food day. It probably should be called world starvation day.

RAJ PATEL, former policy analyst for Food First, a leading food think tank, has worked for the World Bank, WTO and the UN, he has protested them on four continents.
Here is a review of the book. And here are part one and part two of an interview he did with Amy Goodman.


If blogger and google have issues, go directly to youtube



If blogger and google have issues, go directly to http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDqNTP2JHuY

Please check out the transcript of how the food crisis and debt crisis is affecting African-American and latino farmers
and check out this documentary on the disappearance of the black farmer.



or go to youtube to check it out

Very scary stuff...and to think my worries were that bananas were going extinct
For more on Global food day see blogactionday.org

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