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Kimchi Cowboy
Joined: 17 Sep 2006
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Ah, found it. It's taken from a book called "Hungry Planet: What the World Eats" The photo essay (some 30 or so pics) can be found in two parts on TIME's website:
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Rteacher
Joined: 23 May 2005
Location: Western MA, USA
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| Posted: Thu Jan 31, 2008 1:52 am Post subject: |
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The western diet is certainly not healthy for all the animals that are abused, drugged, and slaughtered (while so much land is inefficiently used to feed them grains...)
I didn't provide the link because I got it from an article on an independent "Hare Krishna" website - and much of the article is hard to relate to for non-practioners of bhakti yoga.
They noted that it's been widely circulated on the Internet but didn't mention the original source.
Reportedly, the families depicted are considered "relatively well off" in their respective societies - at least middle-class.
The article did have this other nice picture though:
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that guy
Joined: 29 Feb 2004
Location: long gone
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| Posted: Thu Jan 31, 2008 3:07 am Post subject: |
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And the award for the most packaging goes to:
Japan: The Ukita family of Kodaira City
second place:
Great Britain: The Bainton family of Cllingbourne |
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Kimchi Cowboy
Joined: 17 Sep 2006
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| Posted: Thu Jan 31, 2008 3:42 am Post subject: |
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How much meat can YOU eat in a week?:
Australia: The Browns of River View
Food expenditure for one week: 481.14 Australian dollars or US$376.45 |
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nicholas_chiasson
Joined: 14 Jun 2007
Location: Samcheok
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| Posted: Thu Jan 31, 2008 4:17 am Post subject: |
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| Did anyone notice how many flowers the Poles put on the table? Do they eat the? |
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peppermint
Joined: 13 May 2003
Location: traversing the minefields of caddishness.
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| Posted: Thu Jan 31, 2008 4:42 am Post subject: |
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The American family pictured is essentially four adults, they're going to have different eating habits than a family with young kids.
What did jump out at me was the wall of soda in the pic for the the Mexican family. Lots of fruit and veggies are good, but thats an awful lot of sugar and caffeine there |
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Kimchi Cowboy
Joined: 17 Sep 2006
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| Posted: Thu Jan 31, 2008 5:10 am Post subject: |
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| peppermint wrote: |
| The American family pictured is essentially four adults, they're going to have different eating habits than a family with young kids. |
United States: The Caven family of California
Food expenditure for one week: $159.18
Favorite foods: beef stew, berry yogurt sundae, clam chowder, ice cream |
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peppermint
Joined: 13 May 2003
Location: traversing the minefields of caddishness.
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| Posted: Thu Jan 31, 2008 5:14 am Post subject: |
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| I was referring to the American family in the OP. That one is still a little lacking in fresh fruit and veggies, but certainly unworthy of the comments disparaging American eating habits |
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nicholas_chiasson
Joined: 14 Jun 2007
Location: Samcheok
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| Posted: Thu Jan 31, 2008 5:15 am Post subject: |
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| peppermint wrote: |
The American family pictured is essentially four adults, they're going to have different eating habits than a family with young kids.
What did jump out at me was the wall of soda in the pic for the the Mexican family. Lots of fruit and veggies are good, but thats an awful lot of sugar and caffeine there |
I recall that the mexicans are the highest consumers per capita of coke in the world. And the most obese after the US. |
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Privateer
Joined: 31 Aug 2005
Location: Easy Street.
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| Posted: Thu Jan 31, 2008 5:16 am Post subject: |
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It's embarrassing to see the only family with more processed packaged food and less fresh produce than the American one is the British.  |
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Temporary
Joined: 13 Jan 2008
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| Posted: Thu Jan 31, 2008 5:26 am Post subject: |
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Sheesh everyone got bananas.. I hate those disgusting yellow things, and in Ecuador they are green.
UK.. EWWW Mayo sandwich talk about a heart attack delivered quickly.
The least I spent in a week on food was 5k won, the most 120k won.
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Are they the lemmings
Joined: 15 Feb 2007
Location: Not here anymore. JongnoGuru was the only thing that kept me here.
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| Posted: Thu Jan 31, 2008 5:31 am Post subject: |
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Wow. That is pretty much the contents of our kitchen  Uncanny.
Just in case you are wondering (and I just know you are), that is Taro Shigaki on the TV doing an ad for Ariaasu ant killer spray.
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| but i mean, how come it doesnt show the other families "restaurant" food - do they never eat out in other countries? |
We didn't. I sh*t you not; I could count on my hands and feet the number of times our family ate out. Once we kids grew up and had our own incomes it was a different story--quite the opposite, in fact--but until then, we ate at home.
That aside, though, this whole thing is supposed to be "typical" weekly groceries, right? I wonder if it indicates that eat-out food is more a part of the "typical" American food shopping than other countries. |
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Easter Clark
Joined: 18 Nov 2007
Location: Hiding from Yie Eun-woong
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| Posted: Thu Jan 31, 2008 5:35 am Post subject: |
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| Wow! I had no idea people ate polar bear! |
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Temporary
Joined: 13 Jan 2008
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| Posted: Thu Jan 31, 2008 5:42 am Post subject: |
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| Easter Clark wrote: |
| Wow! I had no idea people ate polar bear! |
If its anything like Bear (Grizzly and Black) its friggen disgusting. |
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Zutronius
Joined: 16 Apr 2007
Location: Suncheon
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| Posted: Thu Jan 31, 2008 11:07 am Post subject: |
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| Fascinating how many of those photos had Coke products in them. |
I noticed that too. Def not the healthiest food choices to be made for most North Americans. |
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