The fight over the world's food systems

Stuffed and Starved: As Food Riots Break Out Across the Globe, Raj Patel Details "The Hidden Battle for the World Food System"
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. [includes rush transcript]

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[batflies]

Grow your own food people.

[Slavesrevolt]

It's a natural progression, carefully orchestrated by the banksters.

Bankrupt the world. Cut the food supply, raise the prices, initiate starvation, people riot, (INSERT FALSE FLAG EVENTS HERE) declare martial law, turn the guns on them and round up the others to become economic slaves herded into internment camps. FEMA etc. for the good of the state.

The state has been corrupt for the past 2500 years of so. This empire needs to end if the people really want to be free and happy.

Amenstop.

[texasoilfields]

@hjshmuel

First of all Google doesn't say anything. Google is a search engine. That means it finds things that have been said by other people/organizations. I know this is difficult stuff but try to stay with me.

Second of all, look at the title you cited: "...in Increasingly Obese Developed World." DEVELOPED WORLD. Not the whole world, just the developed world. The W.H.O. has us at number 9. Not the most obese. Just what I said. You are a moron. Need anything else explained to you? Moron

[hjshmuel]

@texasoilfields ... So, if Google says it, it is solid empirical truth? OK, I googled it and found out=

"U.S. Still Tops in Increasingly Obese Developed World - Technology ...

Sep 24, 2010 ..." on the top half of the first page - along with other, contradictory information.

[texasoilfields]

American Samoa is not a nation, so whatever source you got this from is inaccurate. It is one part of one nation (the US), and a tiny part at that: it has roughly the population of the desert town I grew up in. The World Health Organization has the US at #9.

[texasoilfields]

Raj Patel, a simple google search shows that the US is not the most obese nation on the planet. are you a real academic?

[PdubzCrew]

We have companies that spend over millions on new ipods....t.v. and other electronics and we still have poor countries......imagine if we companies stopped making ipods etc for a year and use the money on poverty countries how much change that would make

They said a dollar can make a difference.....imagine 1 million....makes me sad because my family came from a poverty country.

[VerilyTrillionaire]

@everybody Please! Watch "money as debt" and "the secret of oz"

The solutions Raj Patel presents are only symptoms of the Fractional reserve debt system.