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Book review- Raj Patel’s Stuffed and starved

" From the farm to the fork" the story unfolds to gripping disturbing climax. Book review- Raj Patel’s Stuffed and starved A book that is not to be trusted simply by its non flashy cover. A book so well written about food that it initiates self introspection about how we never question some of the basic things in life like why have started eating cauliflower even in the winters when its used to be available only during the summers! Or why is mommy and dady now purchasing groceries from that mall by burning 1 litre of gas when they used to buy the same from the local grocery shop earlier when we were kids? Patel has made a non fiction book so curiously unlike a work of non fiction which ends up boring and not worth perusing once put down. Replete with examples from around the globe on movements trying to put this huge agroindustry accountable for its deeds the book simply talks about food. Its not a foodie’s delight but a nightmare which maybe every foodie might have conscious...