The Hungry Planet paper helped me to look closer at different countries and how they eat. It helped to show me how much different eating habits are across cultures, while also showing how similar others are. Families in Australia eat similar foods to the United States, where countries who do little importing eat very basic, raw type foods. It made me think about nutrition in a different respect because it showed me what the people who eat different diets look like. The people in Chad were much thinner, but they did not appear to be starving, while the family in Australia looked well fed, but slightly overweight. The health of the people is unknown to me, but just having enough to eat isn’t always the best way to live. There’s problems with having all ends of the spectrum on food, so what is important is that the people know how and what to eat. The people in Chad live off what they get from the land and they make it by with that, they have figured out how to survive with what they have while in Australia they are able to eat whatever they can afford at the grocery store.
I was able to see what it takes for families across the world to eat and how even though we differ in what we eat, food still manages to bring people together. In both Chad and Australia, the families are seen together when they are getting their food and there are other people in the communities doing the same. The Hungry Planet Paper showed me how food tends to bring people together, no matter the living conditions or the way they get and eat their food.