Comments on: Brain Food: Hungry Planet http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2009/03/10/hungry-planet/ Interestingness, curated – picking culture's collective brain for innovation, inspiration & brilliant ideas Thu, 09 Feb 2012 03:06:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: TUESDAY FAVOURITES – LITERARY ROUND-UP with KAT PATRICK | Always Sometimes Anytime http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2009/03/10/hungry-planet/comment-page-1/#comment-135498 TUESDAY FAVOURITES – LITERARY ROUND-UP with KAT PATRICK | Always Sometimes Anytime Tue, 07 Feb 2012 04:41:03 +0000 http://www.brainpickings.org/?p=1944#comment-135498 [...] In other news: WANT ONE. WISH I WAS and HOW WOULD I LOOK! [...] [...] In other news: WANT ONE. WISH I WAS and HOW WOULD I LOOK! [...]

]]> By: Travels in Siberia: my reading list 2011 | GUR?PUFUR?TSU MEANS GRAPEFRUIT http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2009/03/10/hungry-planet/comment-page-1/#comment-135442 Travels in Siberia: my reading list 2011 | GUR?PUFUR?TSU MEANS GRAPEFRUIT Wed, 11 Jan 2012 10:00:04 +0000 http://www.brainpickings.org/?p=1944#comment-135442 [...] 80 portraits of our everyday culinary habits from 30 countries around the world. (and perhaps their Hungry Planet as [...] [...] 80 portraits of our everyday culinary habits from 30 countries around the world. (and perhaps their Hungry Planet as [...]

]]> By: Photojournalism by Peter Menzel « Daily Dose of Distraction http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2009/03/10/hungry-planet/comment-page-1/#comment-134545 Photojournalism by Peter Menzel « Daily Dose of Distraction Sat, 15 Oct 2011 23:51:14 +0000 http://www.brainpickings.org/?p=1944#comment-134545 [...] Brain Food: Hungry Planet by Teddy Zareva [...] [...] Brain Food: Hungry Planet by Teddy Zareva [...]

]]> By: Friday 5 | Do Good http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2009/03/10/hungry-planet/comment-page-1/#comment-130543 Friday 5 | Do Good Sun, 29 May 2011 00:08:49 +0000 http://www.brainpickings.org/?p=1944#comment-130543 [...] much do you spend on groceries a week for your family?  Put it in perspective with these fascinating photos from Peter Menzel and Faith D’Alusio’s book,  Hungry Planet: What the World [...] [...] much do you spend on groceries a week for your family?  Put it in perspective with these fascinating photos from Peter Menzel and Faith D’Alusio’s book,  Hungry Planet: What the World [...]

]]> By: The World of 100: Our Global Village | Brain Pickings http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2009/03/10/hungry-planet/comment-page-1/#comment-125384 The World of 100: Our Global Village | Brain Pickings Wed, 10 Nov 2010 06:09:40 +0000 http://www.brainpickings.org/?p=1944#comment-125384 [...] and the general sense of social responsibility have made most of us aware of severe problems like hunger, deadly disease, and the lack of clean drinking water. But computers? Not something we’d [...] [...] and the general sense of social responsibility have made most of us aware of severe problems like hunger, deadly disease, and the lack of clean drinking water. But computers? Not something we’d [...]

]]> By: What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets | Brain Pickings http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2009/03/10/hungry-planet/comment-page-1/#comment-96548 What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets | Brain Pickings Wed, 11 Aug 2010 12:01:59 +0000 http://www.brainpickings.org/?p=1944#comment-96548 [...] Pickings post to date is our review of photographers Peter Menzel and Faith D’Alusio’s Hungry Planet — a grounding portrait of what the world eats, from the $376.45 an Australian family spends [...] [...] Pickings post to date is our review of photographers Peter Menzel and Faith D’Alusio’s Hungry Planet — a grounding portrait of what the world eats, from the $376.45 an Australian family spends [...]

]]> By: pat http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2009/03/10/hungry-planet/comment-page-1/#comment-51844 pat Thu, 13 May 2010 10:39:39 +0000 http://www.brainpickings.org/?p=1944#comment-51844 they try to put a price to make it look more sensational. 1.23 for all that rice? in canada this would cost at lest 50$ for the chad groceries. so It's not as if they "spend less" and as for the american family.. Canada is pretty much the same as the US, and we do not eat like that. This is a little bit extreme. If you think that the US familly is gonna eat that much candy in a week, do you really think that the guatemala familly is gonna eat that much tomatoes in one week? they try to put a price to make it look more sensational. 1.23 for all that rice? in canada this would cost at lest 50$ for the chad groceries. so It’s not as if they “spend less”

and as for the american family.. Canada is pretty much the same as the US, and we do not eat like that. This is a little bit extreme. If you think that the US familly is gonna eat that much candy in a week, do you really think that the guatemala familly is gonna eat that much tomatoes in one week?

]]> By: Our hungry planet « Dating Jesus http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2009/03/10/hungry-planet/comment-page-1/#comment-13646 Our hungry planet « Dating Jesus Fri, 25 Dec 2009 16:28:43 +0000 http://www.brainpickings.org/?p=1944#comment-13646 [...] What’s in your week’s worth of groceries? [...] [...] What’s in your week’s worth of groceries? [...]

]]> By: Sameer Vasta http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2009/03/10/hungry-planet/comment-page-1/#comment-7858 Sameer Vasta Sun, 13 Sep 2009 15:16:11 +0000 http://www.brainpickings.org/?p=1944#comment-7858 Whoa. This is startling. Whoa. This is startling.

]]> By: liz rattican http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2009/03/10/hungry-planet/comment-page-1/#comment-3463 liz rattican Sat, 21 Mar 2009 08:20:48 +0000 http://www.brainpickings.org/?p=1944#comment-3463 This would be a better comparison if we knew what percent of weekly income these figures represent. The actual amounts are faily meaningless for comparison. This would be a better comparison if we knew what percent of weekly income these figures represent. The actual amounts are faily meaningless for comparison.

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