Global Food Disparity: A Photo Diary

This is really interesting.

A book of photographs by Peter Menzel called “Hungry Planet: What the World Eats” (“©Peter Menzel www.menzelphoto.com. Ten Speed Press, published in 2005) makes a relevant point with great irony: at a time when hundreds of millions of people don’t have enough to eat, hundreds of millions more are eating too much and are overweight or obese. In observing what six billion eat for dinner the authors note,

click http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/5/26/102458/137/70/522670/ to see the photos and how much these families spend on food for a week.

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