Attend The World that Food Made on
March 1st, 2018, 3:00pm
Phelps-Stokes Auditorium
Raj Patel, award-winning writer, activist and academic, looks to the 15th century origins of how we feed the world, and supplies a hopeful vision for re-imaging the way we grow food and how we eat. Co-sponsored with Women's and Gender Studies.
If you were intrigued by his presentation today, check out these items on display in front of Circulation!
Stuffed and Starved by
Call Number: Call Number 338.19 P295s 2009
How can starving people also be obese? Why does everything have soy in it? How do petrochemicals and biofuels control the price of food? It's a perverse fact of modern life: There are more starving people 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 a comprehensive investigation into the global food network. It took him from the colossal supermarkets of California to India's wrecked paddy–fields and Africa's bankrupt coffee farms, while along the way he ate genetically engineered soy beans and dodged flying objects in the protestor–packed streets of South Korea. What he found was shocking, from the false choices given us by supermarkets to a global epidemic of farmer suicides, and real reasons for famine in Asia and Africa. Yet he also found great cause for hope—in international resistance movements working to create a more democratic, sustainable and joyful food system. Going beyond ethical consumerism, Patel explains, from seed to store to plate, the steps to regain control of the global food economy, stop the exploitation of both farmers and consumers, and rebalance global sustenance.
The Value of Nothing by
Call Number: 330.122 P295v 2009 (3rd Floor)
"A deeply though-provoking book about the dramatic changes we must make to save the planet from financial madness."--Naomi Klein, author of The Shock Doctrine Opening with Oscar Wilde's observation that "nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing," Patel shows how our faith in prices as a way of valuing the world is misplaced. He reveals the hidden ecological and social costs of a hamburger (as much as $200), and asks how we came to have markets in the first place. Both the corporate capture of government and our current financial crisis, Patel argues, are a result of our democratically bankrupt political system.
A Place at the Table by
Call Number: DVD 363.8209 P697 2013 (2nd Floor)
Examines the issue of hunger in America and proposes new solutions to the problem.
