Raj Patel

One of the most abused country on earth is Mexico. The marketing spills over the border, and people are persuaded to eat…

— Raj Patel

Right now you're seeing more and more families reporting that they are skipping meals. They're having to give up meat. Mothers are…

— Raj Patel

If fucking up takes practice.. i seem well rehearsed..!

— Raj Patel

The one thing that everyone knows about America is people will say, I know my rights. One of those rights is the…

— Raj Patel

I definitely think the price of food is going up. We need to figure out ways to manage that in a sustainable…

— Raj Patel

I think we do need to worry about a food shortage, but we also need to worry about the quality of the…

— Raj Patel

“studies are beginning to show that our ability to appreciate the intrinsic value of generosity, sharing and selflessness is central to maximizing…

— Raj Patel

When you have weird policy decisions in the United States that then ripple out throughout the world, the rest of the world…

— Raj Patel

I do think we have a food problem. In 2006, which is the year for which we have the latest data, 35.5…

— Raj Patel

All of human history is about the going from sudden fat years to the sudden lean years. We've always had good times…

— Raj Patel

“Today’s human activity isn’t exterminating mammoths through centuries of overhunting. Some humans are currently killing everything, from megafauna to microbiota, at speeds…

— Raj Patel

By the end of the 1960s, the United States owned more than half of the Indian rupee money supply, and that had…

— Raj Patel

The problem is that we are living now with the consequences of the others people mistake. It would be nice to make…

— Raj Patel

A fertilizer bomb that kills hundreds in Oklahoma. Fuel-laden civil jets that kill 4000 in New York. A sanctions policy that kills…

— Raj Patel

Food sovereignty... is most of all characterized by it’s conversations around how to end hunger and poverty.

— Raj Patel

We have the industrial agriculturalists who try and make an argument that big is beautiful. But if you do the math, and…

— Raj Patel

The food shortages and high prices have certainly sparked the world media's attention, particularly since they're coming in such diverse places, being…

— Raj Patel

India has the largest number of hungry people. Yet it's an outcome of precisely the same mechanism. It's the control of agriculture…

— Raj Patel

Agricultural sustainability doesn't depend on agritechnology. To believe it does is to put the emphasis on the wrong bit of 'agriculture.' What…

— Raj Patel

The current food crisis is an opportunity for companies to engage in agriculture or biotechnology.

— Raj Patel

The opposite of consumption isn't thrift. It's generosity.

— Raj Patel

“If war is gods way of teaching geography to Americans, then recession is his way of teaching little economics to everyone”

— Raj Patel

We need to realize that these industrial methods of farming have gotten us used to cheap food. The corollary of cheap food…

— Raj Patel

Far from being a “luxury for the rich,” organic farming may turn out to be a necessity not just for the poor,…

— Raj Patel

For every $1 advertisers spend advertising something healthful like apples, they spend $500 advertising junk food.

— Raj Patel