Tuesday, September 27, 2011

Hungry Planet

I think that the photographer is trying to show us how easy it is for the world to access natural food from Earth.  He is pointing out the fact that American food is not natural.  When compared to all these other countries around the world all of our food is processed or made by others instead of being grown, gathered, hunted, and cooked ourselves.  He also addresses the sizes of proportions.  The weeks worth of food for the American family is ridiculously more in comparison to a weeks worth of food for a family in Chad.  Even though the family's in Ecuador and Kuwait have about the same amount of food as an American family, it is mostly natural food that they have collected or grown on their own.

1 comment:

  1. Access to natural food is another really good point! When I first looked at it I only paid attention to size. I completely agree, I think the photographer is sending a message, or argument, that our lives are more convenient, and this convenience can make us greedy or gluttonous.

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