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

Familys

favourite recipe: Okra

and mutton

The Ayme family of Peru

$31.55

Familys

favourite recipe: Potato

soup with cabbage

The Namgay family of Bhutan

$5.03

Familys

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 undernourisheda 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, Canadas annual
international food aid is a mere $230
million, about 15% of what theyre
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?

So
What

are you having for lunch?

And,

if going out for lunch, how

are you getting there?

Make

a good choice today!