Raj Patel's Stuffed and Starved

The focus of Patel's book is that the suicide rate of farmers is very high and is still rising. Small farmers have gone out of business and lost their lands. This is considered a symbol of the pride of these people. Patel talked about it as a bottleneck system where food companies manage food purchasing, transportation, and sales in a comprehensive manner. North American free trade agreements and other free trade agreements were also mentioned. Patel concluded that these systems would benefit consumers rather than producers.

Mr. Raja Patel, author of "The Stuff and Hunger: The Hidden Campaign of the World Food System" hopes that consumers will not feel guilty about eating unhealthy food. Instead, consumers should be angry at a food company that weakened their ability to select and allow low-income families to make so-called choices of "between hamburger king and McDonald's and between Pepsi and Coca-Cola." Patel believes major food manufacturers have spent millions of dollars on research and marketing to persuade customers to eat unhealthy food. (AlterNet)

Raj Patel emphasizes these similarities in his book Stuffed and Stved. He said, "Overweight and hungry people bring food from the field through to our dishes through the production chain.A company that sells our food shape and limits the way we eat The main link between obese and hungry people is the food industry - when people are poor, they can not afford to buy fresh vegetables and fruits in most cases, so they buy healthy foods and manufacturers They choose not to. They want to buy something from McDonald's, which makes them obese and has health problems

Millions of people are dealing with starvation today and a billion more people are dealing with obesity. "One out of ten people on Earth is hungry" (Patel). "Most of them are in Asia, but sub-Saharan Africa is the only region with a starvation rate of over 30%, absolute nutrition population is increasing" (Parfitt et al.). Many of them do not have access to high-quality food and health services. As hunger grows, the number of obese people also increases. Obesity was once a rich disease, but it is no longer. It is a disease of the poor in many countries. In our society, we are eating or not eating is formed by a company that sells food to us. Fast food chains like McDonald's offer unhealthy foods that pretend to be delicious. Even healthy foods are not healthy. For example, tomatoes in supermarkets are there because they tolerate long-distance transport and look beautiful.