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Mark Bittman Interviews Raj Patel

Mark Bittman posted a short interview with Raj Patel, whose new book Stuffed and Starved discusses the world's contradictory obesity and hunger problems....

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Stuffed, Starved, and Running on Empty

The New Yorker drops a lengthy and sobering piece this week that looks at the depressing state of the world's food-supply system as detailed in four "second-wave" food-politics books. Where "first wave" books (such as Eric Schlosser's Fast Food Nation) leave off at the ill effects of junk food, the new crop of books looks at how "the entire system of Western food production is in need of radical change."...

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