Abolish the Food Industry
If public health is a legitimate reason to curb corporations' advertising to kids, why limit bans to cigarettes, booze, and toys in happy meals, and not include, say, all unhealthy food?… More »
Raj Patel is a British-born American writer, activist, and academic. He has worked for the World Bank and WTO and been tear-gassed on four continents protesting against them. He is the author of Stuffed and Starved and The Value of Nothing. More
If public health is a legitimate reason to curb corporations' advertising to kids, why limit bans to cigarettes, booze, and toys in happy meals, and not include, say, all unhealthy food?… More »
Child nutrition reform could reduce food stamps by $2 billion—and when food stamps disappear, our whole country suffers… More »
A sustainable future will require a new approach to agriculture. On Guerrilla Gardening might just be its manifesto.… More »
After news broke that 43 million Americans experience hunger, the author explores what the term means.… More »
The author decodes the declaration made at the UN's hunger conference--and says why it falls short.… More »
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