Food around the world

Food Around The World

Photographs by Peter Menzel from
the book "Hungry Planet"

Variations in family size, diet
and food costs for different
countries, per week.
(note the number of people in
each family)


The Manzo family of Sicily
$260.11

Favorite foods: fish, pasta with ragu, hot
dogs, frozen fish sticks


The Melander family of Germany
$500.07

Favorite foods: fried potatoes with onions, bacon and herring, fried
noodles with eggs and cheese, pizza, vanilla pudding


The Revis family of North Carolina
$341.98

Favorite foods: spaghetti, potatoes, sesame chicken

The Casales family of Mexico
$189.09

Favorite foods: pizza, crab, pasta, chicken


The Sobczynscy family of Poland
$151.27



Family favourite: Pig's knuckles with
carrots, celery and parsnips


The Ahmed family of Egypt
$68.53



Family’s favourite recipe: Okra and
mutton


The Ayme family of Peru
$31.55



Family’s favourite recipe: Potato soup
with cabbage


The Namgay family of Bhutan
$5.03



Family’s favourite recipe: Mushroom,
cheese and pork


The Aboubakar family of Chad
$1.23



Favorite foods: soup with fresh sheep
meat


The Global Food Crisis
 The

sad reality today is that although
enough food is produced to feed
everyone on the planet with a healthy
diet – each and every day almost
25,000 people (mostly children) die

of starvation or malnutrition-related
illnesses which are preventable.


 THAT

IS 10 TIMES THE NUMBER
OF PEOPLE KILLED DURING THE
9/11 ATTACKS IN THE US…

 EVERY

DAY.


Developing Country Market


Developed Country Market

Note!


Have vs. Have Not


DID YOU KNOW…
In

the United States, an

estimated 65 percent of adults
are overweight or obese,
leading to an annual loss of
300,000 lives and to at least
$117 billion in health care
costs in 1999.


DID YOU KNOW?


At many fast-food restaurants,
one single meal gives a
disproportionate share
(sometimes more than 100%) of
the recommended daily intake of
fat, cholesterol, salt, and sugar.


DID YOU KNOW…
A

recent study showed that
children who drink sodas and
other sugar-sweetened drinks
are more often obese and that
this risk increases another
60% with each additional
beverage consumed.

DID YOU KNOW…
 McDonald's,

which operates 30,000
restaurants in 119 countries and
serves 46 million customers each day,
earned $15.4 billion in revenues in
2002. On opening day in Kuwait City,
the line for the McDonald's drive-thru
was more than 10 kilometers long.


DID YOU KNOW…
 India's

fast-food industry is
growing by 40 percent a year and
is expected to generate over a
billion dollars in sales by 2005.
Meanwhile, a quarter of India's
population remains undernourished—a number virtually
unchanged over the past decade.


DID YOU KNOW…
China

is now home to 800
KFCs and 100 Pizza Huts.

Only in Canada?
The Canadian government has earmarked
$1.5 billion for biofuel producers in an
effort to increase biofuel consumption to
5% of total fuel used by 2010!
 Oh, by the way, Canada’s annual
international food aid is a mere $230
million, about 15% of what they’re giving
the big oil companies!



Yes, in Canada…
 HungerCount

(2006) reports that
food bank use is at a record high,
with 753, 458 Canadians relying
on food banks in a one month
period. Of these food bank
users, 41% are children.


The Choice is Clear!


Do we continue to over consume?

Or help to feed the hungry…?