You can read about it everywhere, or hear it on the news all the time, but sometimes all it takes is a photograph to change your perspective. Photographer Peter Menzel and author Faith D’Alusio traveled to 24 different countries to stay with 30 different families for a week. The purpose was to document how much the family ate and how much they spend a week on food. The results were a book called Hungry Planet: What the World Eats. The photographs speak for themselves. You can clearly see aspects from poverty, health and money in each of these photographs. From looking at the pictures, it seems as though the poorer nations eat healthier than the richer ones. Compare North Carolina to Egypt; one is filled with fresh foods and meat, while the other is loaded with junk food and pizza. The size of the family is also an interesting factor regarding the pictures. The bigger the family, the less it seems they can spend on food. Check out the rest of their photos here and here.
Photographs in Order as Follows:
Breidjing Camp - $1.23 a week
Ecuador - $31.55 a week
Egypt - $68.53 a week
Mexico - $189.09 a week
Japan - $317.25 a week
United States - $341.48 a week
Germany - $500 a week
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