Re: One Week's Worth of Food Around Our Planet

I don't think anyone is 'ganging up' on the U.S. Good job at pointing your finger at Mexico and Germany though. That's not at all hypocritical.

There are a lot of countries with a high percentage of overweight citizens. It is however, undeniable that the U.S. is one of those countries. The U.S. is also a very large, developed country with a high standard of living and access to an abundance of nutritious food choices so many people focus on it more than on a tiny island nation with limited food options and a high incidence of poverty for example.

Nobody is intending a direct assault on every citizen of the U.S. nor are they implying that everyone in ANY country can be defined by the very limited impression given in these images, however, I have to think that some care and effort was put into the selection of these particular families due to the fact that they represented the AVERAGE for their respective countries. Of course there are many exceptionally healthy individuals in the U.S. but according to a study undertaken by Forbes (link follows), the U.S. ranks #9 in a list of the worlds fattest countries.

http://www.forbes.com/forbeslife/2007/02/07/worlds-fattest-countries-for...

Instead of taking this personally or pointing fingers at others, why not just admit that globally we have a huge problem to deal with? We all need to grow up and accept some responsibility for what we put in our mouths and come to the realization that with a world population of 6.6 billion people, we are eventually going to run out of land to grow food ON, and thereby run out of food itself.

Is it fair to ask half of the planet to live in poverty while some of us get fat on twinkies and big macs? That's for each of us to decide. Personally I would prefer to see everyone with reasonable amounts of healthy food in their belly's as opposed to millions of malnourished poor and millions more malnourished rich.