One Week's Worth of Food Around Our Planet

Why is everyone getting so excited about this post??  STOP ACTING LIKE THIS MEANS ANYTHING!  The idea that one rather dubious looking photo can communicate the eating habits of entire countries is absolutely ridiculous.  If you want to know how much people spend on food etc. go look in the periodicals or read census reports in this place called... the library!

I think the German family would have won on Stackenblocken.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I5gpvHgfeLU

I am so glad that someone posted these pics.  I think earlier this year they were in Time Magazine (I say them online, so I don't know for certain...)  Iit is so interesting to look at the differences and the similarities.

It really makes one think about their own choices. 

Thanks for posting it here!

Please let us give credit where credit is due. This is only a fraction of the information in the book that this was copied from. 

This, as Paul Harvey says, is "the rest of the story".

I looked around and this is actually content from a book that was published, so this could be considered a copyright issue. It might be prudent to add the appropriate credits.

Fascinating project though - glad I saw it.

Here's something that I came across which I thought was very poignant.

Me too. Where did you get this from? It's amazing and whoever put it together deserves some credit.

What strikes me is all the packaging with these foods -- even the California family has nearly everything shrink-wrapped, bottled, or boxed, in a state where the climate is mild enough year-round for people to buy from local Farmer's Markets (which cuts down on the embodied energy in the foods, since the delivery system is much more energy-efficient.)  check out the family from Scicily, Italy, for a look at fresh, unpackaged foods.

Japan's was surprizing in terms of packaging -- many foods appear dried instead of fresh.  I wonder how this affexts the nuteritional quality over years of consumption.

Eating lower on the food chain also helps reduce energy consumption -- it takes far more energy to raise and produce animal products, especially cattle, than to produce grains and nuts that can provide an equivalent nutritional content.  Shrimp is one of the worst -- for every 1,000 people who stop eating shrimp, more than 12,000 pounds of by-catch, or unintentionally-caught sea life -- can be spared,  That's 4.5 TONS of sea turtles, juvenile fish, birds, and other sea life for every ton of shrimp.  Reducing your intake of fish in general reduces the pressures of overfishing on the oceans.

Supersize me. The U.S. pictures remind me of the Saturday Night Live Skit where a customer goes up to a fast food chain and the lady behind the counter asks, "Do you want me to fat ass it for you?" Wake up and smell the coffee America, you are getting fat.

Yes, it's tough to know if I should feel sorry for the Chad folks, which I do because they obviously don't have the choice to make for themselves, or if I should feel sorry for the U.S. and the Westernized countries for the amount of unhealthy junk that they eat. There has to be a happy medium.

Wow...I wish I lived in a couple countries other than the US...sure looks like they have some good healthy food for cheap!!! Except for Chad....They sure look happy with what thwy got!!!! lol.