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Amazing Photos Show What The World Really Eats
Amount spent on healthcare vs. quality of food intake
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Posted 30 April 2012 - 03:14 PM
Weekly food for a family in...
Italy:
China:
Germany:
UK:
USA:
Chad:
article (link)
pics taken from the book
Italy:
China:
Germany:
UK:
USA:
Chad:
article (link)
pics taken from the book
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'Modern daily life is the civilised reanimalisation of man. Nobody really believes in anything anymore, and everyone spends their life in frenzied work and frenzied play so as not to face the fact, not to look into the abyss.' - F. Nietzsche
'Modern daily life is the civilised reanimalisation of man. Nobody really believes in anything anymore, and everyone spends their life in frenzied work and frenzied play so as not to face the fact, not to look into the abyss.' - F. Nietzsche
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Posted 30 April 2012 - 03:21 PM
At least the German has a few beers!
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Initially 'Unemployed Youth'
Then 'Formerly Unemployed Youth'
Then 'Unemployed Again Youth'
Hopefully soon to be 'Employed Again Youth' and not long after that I'll be eligible for working tax credits, if not I'll at least get adult rate dole and maybe car insurance will be potentially affordable!
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Posted 30 April 2012 - 03:33 PM
What strikes me is not the food, but the packaging. What a waste.
And do people really eat so much ? I don't reckon I eat 1/8th of that.
And do people really eat so much ? I don't reckon I eat 1/8th of that.
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Posted 30 April 2012 - 03:35 PM
Chard looks the healthiest all they require is a bit more of it, some more fresh fruit and veg, dairy, meat or fish.....What stands out the most in the other pictures is the amount of convenience branded products the developed world eat.....cut out the expensive stuff and learn to cook from basic, seasonal, fresh, local ingredients, that is the best way going into the future. 
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Posted 30 April 2012 - 03:41 PM
i didnt know people in the UK eats dogs, thought that would have been the Chinese
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Posted 30 April 2012 - 03:41 PM
Seasonally Employed Youth, on 30 April 2012 - 03:21 PM, said:
At least the German has a few beers!
And a much greater food on the table organisational system compared to the other countries.
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Posted 30 April 2012 - 03:46 PM
jaspers, on 30 April 2012 - 03:41 PM, said:
And a much greater food organisation system compared to the other countries.
The UK and USA eat crap.
Who controls the food supply controls the people; who controls the energy can control whole continents; who controls money can control the world.
Privatize the profits socialize the losses.
what i think the coming year will bring
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http://william-king.www.drexel.edu/top/Pri...money/MOH1.html
i'm an economic prop3rty expertWe did'nt see this comingBiflation
Privatize the profits socialize the losses.
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Posted 30 April 2012 - 03:52 PM
crash2006, on 30 April 2012 - 03:46 PM, said:
The UK and USA eat crap.
That is true. Look at the differences in real food between Italy and the UK. Eat food, not so much, mainly plants,is the best advice for a healthy diet.
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Posted 30 April 2012 - 03:53 PM
crash2006, on 30 April 2012 - 03:41 PM, said:
i didnt know people in the UK eats dogs, thought that would have been the Chinese
Great post...funniest thing i've read on here in months.
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Posted 30 April 2012 - 03:54 PM
jaspers, on 30 April 2012 - 03:52 PM, said:
That is true. Look at the differences in real food between Italy and the UK. Eat food, not so much, mainly plants,is the best advice for a healthy diet.
Sadly when you talk to people from these countries and countries like Japan, Indian, China they all say the same thing, i.e. the junk food/american diet is taking over, all the youngsters want the Mac-Donalds.
Sad, but true.
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Posted 30 April 2012 - 03:59 PM
TheCountOfNowhere, on 30 April 2012 - 03:53 PM, said:
Great post...funniest thing i've read on here in months.
LOL or is it the other way round
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Privatize the profits socialize the losses.
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Posted 30 April 2012 - 04:01 PM
TheCountOfNowhere, on 30 April 2012 - 03:54 PM, said:
Sadly when you talk to people from these countries and countries like Japan, Indian, China they all say the same thing, i.e. the junk food/american diet is taking over, all the youngsters want the Mac-Donalds.
Sad, but true.
Sad, but true.
Could it be that people tend to eat on the run today....they don't plan their weekly meals in advance, they no longer shop with a shopping list and stick to it (unless they see an outstanding offer for something they would normally use), they shop when hungry, they buy snacks, fillers and fizzy drinks....they fail to plan ahead, they no longer sit down as a family to eat, they ring for a take away and eat it on the sofa watching HD flat screen.
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Posted 30 April 2012 - 04:07 PM
Gigantic Purple Slug, on 30 April 2012 - 03:33 PM, said:
What strikes me is not the food, but the packaging. What a waste.
And do people really eat so much ? I don't reckon I eat 1/8th of that.
And do people really eat so much ? I don't reckon I eat 1/8th of that.
The packaging will have more nutritional content than the contents. FACT!
If it comes in a box, its no good for you.
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Posted 30 April 2012 - 04:12 PM
winkie, on 30 April 2012 - 04:01 PM, said:
Could it be that people tend to eat on the run today....they don't plan their weekly meals in advance, they no longer shop with a shopping list and stick to it (unless they see an outstanding offer for something they would normally use), they shop when hungry, they buy snacks, fillers and fizzy drinks....they fail to plan ahead, they no longer sit down as a family to eat, they ring for a take away and eat it on the sofa watching HD flat screen.
Speak for yourself, nothing so satisfying as roast chicken sunday, chicken pie monday and soup with home made bread on tuesday. 2 fed three evening meals for less than a tenner-Ding dong
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"Credit is indeed vital to an economy, but it does not constitute an economy within itself. ... When businesses borrow to fund capital investments, the extra cash flows that result are used to repay the loans. When individuals borrow to spend, loans can only be repaid out of reduced future consumption."-Peter Schiff, Jan 19 2009; <a href="http://www.321gold.com/editorials/schiff/schiff011909.html" My link
"The bold effort the present bank had made to control the government... are but premonitions of the fate that await the American people should they be deluded into a perpetuation of this institution or the establishment of another like it."-Andrew Jackson on the Second Bank of the United States
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Posted 30 April 2012 - 04:14 PM
The UK and US are eating junk IMPO.
The Italians are eating too much wheat by the looks of it, especially if they have some pasta with their bread.
The German cold cuts, cheese and beer appeals.
The Italians are eating too much wheat by the looks of it, especially if they have some pasta with their bread.
The German cold cuts, cheese and beer appeals.
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The political triumph of the American Right has been to advance relentlessly the economic interests of the country's richest people, while emphasising a swath of moral, social and foreign policy issues that motivate and certainly distract middle-class and poor voters.
The people closest to you have been trying to tell you that you have made a difference. That you did change things for the better. The Universe is vast and we are so small. There is really only one thing that we can ever truly control - whether we are good or evil.
The political triumph of the American Right has been to advance relentlessly the economic interests of the country's richest people, while emphasising a swath of moral, social and foreign policy issues that motivate and certainly distract middle-class and poor voters.