This is an interesting collection of photographs of families around the world that empties there fridge and storage to show off their food collection. An interesting Time Magazine cook book/human diet book. A pretty fun book to spend hours observing what they eat.
Mongolia: Lots of meat and fruits and little or no vegetables. I like this one.
Japan: Notice the amount of seafood. If you are dumping mercury into the ocean, please stop it.
Great Britain: Notice the amount of processed food. Sometimes we have to buy what the factory wants us to buy. And bits and parts of processed foods come from all over the world with lots of unknown preservatives.
Bhutan: Nearly all vegetables. They seem to be content vegetarians.
Book sells at Amazon.
I think something is missing from this post, I don’t see Sim’s food anywhere.
I love how the people of Bhutan eat, I love to eat vegetables and can easily convert to vegetarian, and look at their food expenditure for one week: 224.93 ngultrum or $5.03, and I’ll be filthy rich in no time. Lol.
I read quiet a bit about them; the Thais love them because they’ve a good-looking prince (still single). Bhutan is the world’s smallest and most extraordinary countries in the great Himalayas, they called it the “Dragon Kingdom” of Bhutan. Hidden between India, Tibet, and Nepal, Bhutan is a proud nation of one of the earth’s best-preserved ecologies and cultures. I’d love to go visit there one day.
Hungry Planet? How about Hungry Laos?
Can’t help it, but seeing the abundence of all the food made me
think of the effects of Nam Theun 2 Dam project in Laos.
Please write your next post about it.
source: IRN.ORG
Their NT2 Trip Report was long but very in-depth
You’re very good at what you do. This will
1 Raise awareness about the environment in Laos
2 Do some public relation between that Laos/Thai thing
3 Show what food/lack of food the villagers eat.
Thanks SID for a good idea to write about. I need ideas.
I have mix feelings about the Dam project since I’m a progressivist, not a pro-dormant kinda person. As much as I am feeling the pain and suffering to those that are about to be homeless and the ecological impact it will do to the region I am seeing that this Dam project can create prosperity to Laos, based on little knowledge I know about the project itself.
My parents grew up in houses without electricity and I always wonder what would happen if electricity had been produce in the most cleanest way, affordable and profitable. But then I thought about people’s lives that will be displaced. This is not Hoover Dam, you know.
People are using gasoline engines as power sources. They are not efficient. And they are expensive. The price of gas is not stable and nearly all profits goes offshore.
If the villagers can understand, which they might not, that by having electricity to run trolleys, buses and other machinery Laos will be independent from the international fuel crises. If the fuel prices climb, as seen in Burma, a riot can break out, causing instability in Laos.
Cheaper electricity means more investment to that region. If you know, parts of India usually have a never-ending blackout in their factories.