What The World Eats
October 4, 2007
I just came across this fascinating photo essay at Time online, and thought it tied in well with the previous post that mentioned the “global disparity.”
It’s a series of photos of families around the world, with a week’s worth of food piled around them, and an average cost (expressed in local currency, and as US Dollars). It’s amazing to think that the family in Chad (average weekly grocery cost of $1.23) could live for nearly TEN YEARS on what the family in Germany spent (an average of $500.07 per week). Amazing in a deeply, deeply, tragic sort of way.
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October 4th, 2007 at 2:58 pm
I saw this in the magazine. It was crazy.
October 4th, 2007 at 3:42 pm
I wonder how many of the families with very little food are actually the ones who work to provide the food for those who have the largest amounts of food.
October 4th, 2007 at 4:43 pm
Hm. For some reason these differences aren’t as drastic as I expected them to be. Most of the families seem to be urban. I wonder how they chose which families to photograph.
October 13th, 2007 at 6:59 pm
There’s a similar project, published as a book, that has people take all of their possessions out in front of their house and sit with them arranged around them. Talk about glaring disparity.