We kind of know that food is necessary to survive. But our ways of connecting with food have been, in many ways, taken over by capitalism - certainly taken over by the influence large corporations have on the way that… — 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
