What The World Eats

My friend Jon first posted this over at his blog mythic reality and I was so intrigued by the whole notion. TIME magazine pulled these series of pictures from a book called, Hungry Planet depicting what different families around the globe eat in a week. I'm putting a link here to the pictures so you can go through and see each family unit for yourself.

Here are a few observations that I made and I would love to hear what you thought about the pictures too.

• This planet is able to produce so much food! How is it possible that anyone could go hungry...yet so many do. Does there need to be any more proof that we live in a sinful, selfish world?
• Westerners don't eat a lot of fresh fruit and vegetables.
  
• For obvious reasons, modern cultures has a lot of packaged meals.
• The Germans sure do drink a lot of beer!
• Americans drink a lot of pop!
• The families with the least seemed to have the biggest smiles. The family from Ecuador seemed to really be enjoying themselves.
• These pictures make the world smaller and more real to me.