Raj Patel, Activist; Academic; Author, Stuffed and Starved
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Raj Patel , Activist; Academic; Author, Stuffed and Starved
In conversation with Dan Imhoff , Author and Publisher, Food Fight; Director, Watershed Media; Host, "Farm and Garden Show"
Stuffed: Obesity is the second leading cause of preventable death in the United States, and over 60 percent of us are considered overweight. Starved: Worldwide, nearly a billion people are starving to death, and 35 million Americans went hungry at some point last year. Moreover, Patel contends that the... 
