A recent review of different agricultural options for the future was conducted by a panel of experts. The scientists posed the question: How are we going to feed the world when there are nine billion people on it, as there… — Raj Patel Copy Share Image
Yet if you go to the supermarket and look at food that's produced through industrial agriculture, look at what's happened to the prices. Have they been going down? They've been going up and they will continue to go up. So… — Raj Patel Copy Share Image
One of the most abused country on earth is Mexico. The marketing spills over the border, and people are persuaded to eat food that's… — Raj Patel Copy Share Image
Right now you're seeing more and more families reporting that they are skipping meals. They're having to give up meat. Mothers are foregoing food… — Raj Patel Copy Share Image
The one thing that everyone knows about America is people will say, I know my rights. One of those rights is the right to… — Raj Patel Copy Share Image
I definitely think the price of food is going up. We need to figure out ways to manage that in a sustainable way. We… — Raj Patel Copy Share Image
I think we do need to worry about a food shortage, but we also need to worry about the quality of the food. A… — Raj Patel Copy Share Image
“studies are beginning to show that our ability to appreciate the intrinsic value of generosity, sharing and selflessness is central to maximizing our well-being.… — Raj Patel Copy Share Image
When you have weird policy decisions in the United States that then ripple out throughout the world, the rest of the world really takes… — Raj Patel Copy Share Image
I do think we have a food problem. In 2006, which is the year for which we have the latest data, 35.5 million Americans… — Raj Patel Copy Share Image
All of human history is about the going from sudden fat years to the sudden lean years. We've always had good times and bad,… — Raj Patel Copy Share Image
“Today’s human activity isn’t exterminating mammoths through centuries of overhunting. Some humans are currently killing everything, from megafauna to microbiota, at speeds one hundred… — Raj Patel Copy Share Image
By the end of the 1960s, the United States owned more than half of the Indian rupee money supply, and that had been acquired… — Raj Patel Copy Share Image
The problem is that we are living now with the consequences of the others people mistake. It would be nice to make our own… — Raj Patel Copy Share Image
A fertilizer bomb that kills hundreds in Oklahoma. Fuel-laden civil jets that kill 4000 in New York. A sanctions policy that kills one and… — Raj Patel Copy Share Image
Food sovereignty... is most of all characterized by it’s conversations around how to end hunger and poverty. — Raj Patel Copy Share Image
