{"id":44877,"date":"2019-03-29T09:13:46","date_gmt":"2019-03-29T14:13:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=44877"},"modified":"2019-03-29T09:13:48","modified_gmt":"2019-03-29T14:13:48","slug":"food-for-a-small-planet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=44877","title":{"rendered":"Food for a small planet"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/www.animasoul.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Revis-Family-America-007.jpg?resize=720%2C480&amp;ssl=1\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.animasoul.org\/2019\/03\/11\/food-for-a-small-planet\/\">Food for a small planet<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>What do people eat across the world?&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/lifeandstyle\/gallery\/2013\/may\/06\/hungry-planet-what-world-eats\">An excellent photographic answer<\/a>&nbsp;to this question was provided by Californian photographer Peter Menzel who visited 24 countries for the book \u201cHungry Planet\u201d .&nbsp;&nbsp; The thing I found most interesting from his photographs was the difference in the percentage of whole food vs. processed food that make up diets across the world.&nbsp; Americans eat mostly processed food and very little whole food.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/www.animasoul.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/egyptian-family-food.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2060\"\/><figcaption>The Ahmeds\u2019 extended family in the Cairo from Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 118). Food expenditure for one week: $68.53 USD.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.animasoul.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/This-Is-What-Students-From-Around-The-World-Eat-During-Lunch-Time-51.jpeg?resize=397%2C208&amp;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2061\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The first book I read about the connections between agriculture, government, food, health, and the environment was \u201cDiet for a small planet\u201d written by Frances Moore Lappe in 1971.&nbsp; I woke up to the reality of food production and converted for a time to a vegetarian diet.&nbsp; Eventually I settled on my preferred diet which includes smaller amounts of high quality meat along with mostly fresh plant based food; vegetables, fruit, dried legumes, grains, nuts and seeds.&nbsp;I changed my diet because I wanted to eat food that was better for my health and better for the environment.&nbsp;&nbsp;There is a reason why obesity has become an epidemic in America, it is because of the food we eat.&nbsp; Compare the difference between an American and a European lunch.&nbsp; The Italian lunch contains more whole foods and more importantly less sodium and high&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.healthline.com\/nutrition\/why-high-fructose-corn-syrup-is-bad\">fructose corn syrup<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I learned to cook from my mother and grandmother but I learned to cook\u00a0 vegetarian meals as an adult.\u00a0 My mother and grandmother had grown up on a small family farm where most of their food was produced, all of it high quality.\u00a0 <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Food for a small planet What do people eat across the world?&nbsp;&nbsp;An excellent photographic answer&nbsp;to this question was provided by Californian photographer Peter Menzel who visited 24 countries for the book \u201cHungry Planet\u201d .&nbsp;&nbsp; The thing I found most interesting from his photographs was the difference in the percentage of whole food vs. processed food [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[16692,319,16693],"class_list":["post-44877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-animasoul","tag-food","tag-jody-tishmack"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44877","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44877"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44877\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44878,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44877\/revisions\/44878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}