What The World Eats Each Week And What That Food Costs...

There's one thing that we need to do each day and that's eat.
Most of us can afford to but there's many in the world who can't.
And those who can afford to are not making very good choices when it comes to their own diets and those of their families.
It seems that those with small incomes are more selective of the foods they put into their bodies but too, they may be starved of choice.
Here's some images and statistics that might make us all consider what we're serving up on our dinner tables.
One thing's for sure, the western diet certainly consumes a load of processed food and artificially  sweetened beverages and many of the developing countries are unfortunately doing the same.
Hence the increase in diet related diseases.
But diet is often determined by uncontrollable forces such as poverty, conflict and today to a huge extent, globalization.
These images and many more here are from the book Hungry Planet by Peter Manzel and Faith D'Aluision who traveled through twenty four countries recording the people and the prices they pay for their weekly meals.
It's food for thought isn't it.