One week’s worth of food by various cultures
Shameful display of the western nations wealth build on the back of the 3rd world. Ahead of the game: Have a guess… Germany.
Link.
From the comments of the website: Try this table below (If you can’t remember the names of the Families then you won’t remember what they cal “living”)
Each Melander (or Smith, Jones, brown etc etc) would feed how many from the other families ???
Melander 1.00
Revis 1.46
Ukita 1.58
Bainton 1.98
Manzo 2.40
Caven 3.14
Dong 3.23
Casales 3.31
Sobczynscy 4.13
Al Haggan 4.52
Batsuuri 12.50
Ahmed 21.90
Ayme 35.62
Namgay 320.56
Aboubakar 595.00
That just makes me sad
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Yeah but what exactly is that trying to show, prove or whatever?
Did I miss something out or is it just the Photographs and the week expenditures? Is it the average expenditure of families for the named societies? Are that nominal prices or are they somehow related? And what is the explanation on how western countries feed of the back of poorer (if you consider Poland and germany to be western countries about which you could argue)? Not that I doubt that, but where is an analysis of the political economy of the process of exploitation?
Someone help me out!
Comment by tommy — May 5, 2008 @ 5:22 pm
Just to add, the poverty which is pictured by the numbers is of course saddening, but it’s not - I’m afraid - really news.
Comment by tommy — May 5, 2008 @ 5:25 pm
Plus It seems as if the families have differing sizes (can you say that in english?), so it seems to be even worse than the numbers suggest.
Comment by tommy — May 5, 2008 @ 5:29 pm
http://www.bildblog.de/2941/gewissenlose-chaoten
Comment by bise — May 5, 2008 @ 7:42 pm