What the World Eats

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Here is a photographic account of what families from various cultures eat in a typical week. Not surprisingly, as affluence increases so, too, does the amount of packaged food and soda along with a noticeable decrease in fresh fruits and vegetables. It would interesting to see a compendium of the various diseases that afflict these societies as well. While we’re at it, are some societies happier than others? Is there a relationship between happiness and the food we eat? Does producing at least some of one’s own food increase one’s happiness? I know that when I eat food I have grown, there is a double pleasure in the eating. But perhaps that is simply the luxury of my relative affluence.  Would I feel differently if my life depended on the food I produced? Anyone out there produce the majority of the food you eat? How do you do it? Why?

H/T Josh Eller

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Mark T. Mitchell is the co-founder of Front Porch Republic. He is the Dean of Academic Affairs at Patrick Henry College and the author of several books including Plutocratic Socialism, Power and Purity, The Limits of Liberalism, The Politics of Gratitude, and Localism in Mass Age: A Front Porch Republic Manifesto (co-editor).

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