I definitely think the price of food is going up. We need to figure out ways to manage that in a sustainable way. We have to figure out ways of increasing wages so people can afford it. That means redistribution,… — 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 bad for them, more in rich countries than in poor ones. I was traveling the world. What really struck me was the way we engage with food - how it's a global phenomenon - the world… — Raj Patel Copy Share
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
