Food page
By Daniel and Walter
Poverty is the worst form of violence-Mahatma Gandhi
This page is about the food of the world. As you saw on the FrontPage, this project is based on the book If The World Were A Village by David J. Smith. In this book, the world is reduced to a village of 100 people, with one person equal to 64 million people. This is done to make numbers easier to comprehend, and make percentages easier to understand. Therefore, with so many people in the real world, compared to the Global Village, the numbers have to be rounded, to make them work in the Global Village. In this Wiki, we aim to go over and above the data in the book.
50% of the people in the Global Village are sometimes or always hungry.
30% of the people in the Global Village have enough to eat.
20% of the people in the Global Village are severely undernourished.
If all of the food was divided equally everyone in the village would have enough to eat!
Poverty leads to hunger. Some examples are because some people don't have good nutrition, safe water, cleanliness, and health care. The only reason for no access to these resources are because the resources are not evenly distributed. Currently, if food was passed out evenly to the world, there would be enough to feed everyone with some left over. in the 1990s, more than half of undernourished children lived in places with extra food. In the real world, nearly 800 million people do not have enough to eat.
These are the people who may have a greater risk of getting malnutrition.
- Infants and children who do not get the right type or amount of calories and nutrients.
- Older adults.
- People who are taking medicines that decrease appetite or affect the digestion and absorption of nutrients.
- People who abuse drugs or alcohol.
- People with eating disorders.
- People with certain diseases such as cystic fibrosis, celiac disease, liver disease, kidney disease and cancer.
- People with a low income who have trouble buying the right kind of food.
- Pregnant women.
- In Africa there are the least Dietary Energy Supplies. They are mainly in the central part and some are in the east.
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Types of food in different places
Asia
- Eating in Asia is often based on traditions
- The tradition includes a lot of rice
- Some people eat rice at every meal even breakfast
- Most of the dishes are low in animal products
- A lot of dishes contain a lot of vegtables and plants
Africa
- A lot of dishes are starches
- Yams are important
- Meallie is a African name for corn
- Stews are very popular
Latin America
- In south America corn, and spuds are common
- Also, locally grown fruits, veggies, beans, nuts, and seeds are common
- One very popular drink is made from cocoa beans, and water
- Beef is not that popular except in Argentina where it is common
- Fish and chicken are cooked when available
Mediterranean
- Grains, beans, and nuts arepart of the heart of their culture
- Animal products are not to common
- The diets there use olive oil as their source of necesary fat
- Garlic is a very popular seasoning in that part of the world
- Red meat, mostly from goat, lamb, beef, veal, and pork, it is used in small amounts mostly
Western Europe
- Fish is BIG in Western Europe
- In warmer areas they feature fruits, and veggies
- In colder climates they feature more meat, cheese, and bread
Notice that this graph is about the animals that are part of the food supply of the Global Village. Not all of these animals are used as food. Some could be used to carry things. As the graph shows, there are 250 chickens. Sheep and goats come on second place.
People around the world and what they spend on food in a week:
- Germany: $500.07 a week
- Japan: $317.25 a week
- Italy: $260.11 a week
- England: $253.15 a week
- US: $248.67 a week
- Kuwait: $221.45 a week
- Mexico: $189.09 a week
- Poland: $151.27 a week
- China: $80.05 a week
- Egypt: $68.53 a week
- Mongolia: $40.02 a week
- Ecuador: $31.55 a week
- Chad: $1.23 a week
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Comments (Show all 44)
BettrDenZeeMasta' said
at 9:49 am on Feb 8, 2008
O.K. I em ere. Now eet iz a party. About ure page. I like eet. It has goood facs but eet iz kinda hard to reeed. Try to pute eet mur spaced out. Zome of zee text can beee biger. Sank you fur yure time.
cute little lovable Fluff said
at 9:54 am on Feb 8, 2008
I AM THE DESTROYER!!!!!!! THIS PAGE IS SO HARD TO READ AND UNDERSTAND IT NEEDS WORK!!!!!!!! SO ONE DAY I WILL COME AND DESTROY IT !!!!!!!! FOR I AM EMILY ! WAIT I UM MEAN cute little loveable fluff so JUST FIX YOUR PAGE AND DELETE THE MRS. B COMMENT!!!!!
Tabool said
at 10:02 am on Feb 8, 2008
I like it!!!
Tabool said
at 10:03 am on Feb 8, 2008
I agree with Mrs B.
Baby Emmy said
at 12:01 pm on Feb 13, 2008
This wiki is so cool. It looks a little messy though.
May said
at 12:02 pm on Feb 13, 2008
cool over all. the animations are effective and catch one's eye. However, the graph could be a little less poppy. The font should be more consistent.
shoshie the shoshie said
at 12:09 pm on Feb 13, 2008
This is Okay, but you could make it a little easier to understand.
Andrea Bittle said
at 11:00 pm on Feb 14, 2008
Daniel, Walter not being available is no excuse. Your name is on this page as well. You had a lot to do today and I don't see much effort here....
Amos said
at 10:57 am on Feb 25, 2008
Check SPELLING, CAPITALIZATION, and GRAMMAR including commas, too, to, and two, etc.
Maggie-May said
at 11:04 am on Feb 25, 2008
you need to quote the quote, needs better format, sloppy
Brian said
at 11:20 am on Mar 3, 2008
The text under the first graph is too small to read.
Katherine said
at 11:41 am on Mar 3, 2008
i don't get the quote. i think you guys should explain it a bit.
Le Pie (Pete) said
at 11:44 am on Mar 3, 2008
Same with Kath.
Amos said
at 12:11 pm on Mar 3, 2008
You guys really need to look at your commas. You have commas in different places in lists. Try and be consistent.
Also, you should move the map down lower.
Cole said
at 1:59 pm on Mar 4, 2008
Please spellcheck. Also don't take screenshots of text. And finally use clear, easy to read fonts.
Elllie said
at 2:06 pm on Mar 4, 2008
For once Coal is right. Weird. 'Cept that Coal was only commenting on the fluffy stuff, and not the content. And Coal spelled his name wrong. Onto another topic, Shelby is sooo right, you peeplz need to re-arrange your text, so that it flows more.
na\'im said
at 2:20 pm on Mar 4, 2008
The quote needs to be smaller
Shelby said
at 2:38 pm on Mar 4, 2008
swicth two bottom graphs.
Bennett said
at 2:44 pm on Mar 4, 2008
I like this page! Maybe some pictures would make it better. Maybe even a couple of recipes! That would make it fantastic! As usual, you need to spell and grammar check.
Rohan said
at 2:57 pm on Mar 4, 2008
I think this page is excellent except that the title for your dollars spent in a week list should be separated from the previous text and should be in bold face.
Rachel said
at 6:37 pm on Mar 5, 2008
I like your but I think that it should be more about hunger then what different people eat. I like the graph about which countries are the hungry and least hungry. If you could find some more things like that and write a blurb about them it would make your page great. Good luck!
Andrea Bittle said
at 12:57 pm on Mar 16, 2008
Actually the quote by Ghandi seems evident to me: We tend to think of violence as having to do with weapons, killing and hurting others. Ghandi is saying that being poor, and having to spend your days looking for food (or more horrible, watching your children starve) is a form of violence as well, in fact, the worst kind. Especially, since there is enough food in the world for every one to have enough.
I was almost logged in as Bennett (this said
at 12:46 pm on Mar 18, 2008
By the way Mahatma Gandhi's real name was Mohandas. Just to tell u. Im not sure of the spelling "Mohandas" but im pretty sure about it.
Guest said
at 1:39 pm on Mar 18, 2008
This is how u spell Mahatma's name. Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi.
P.S. Miss Bittle, u spelled Gandhi wrong. U spell it like Gandhi but u spelled it like Ghandi
may&addy:2mindsthatthinkalike said
at 1:49 pm on Mar 18, 2008
We promise we aren't being sarcastic - your page is really great. We feel sentimental about how consistent your font and font size is. This probably doesn't matter very much, but we don't exactly like how you highlighted them. You could probably just bold them. We like the map a lot, but we can't read the font very well. Also, your spacing could do with a teensy bit of work. We really like the rest, especially the 'Types of Food in Different Places'. We also love the graphs and pictures.
손창현 said
at 11:11 am on Apr 28, 2008
People around the world and what they spend on food in a week: Germany: $500.07 a week) WOW Germany spend lot's of money at food.
da master said
at 12:54 pm on Apr 29, 2008
how did you get the korean name????
andrea bittle said
at 2:06 pm on Dec 6, 2008
WOW! I didn't know that potatos would be the least populated food and oranges would be the most populated!
Andrea Bittle said
at 10:53 am on Dec 7, 2008
Last commentator: use your own first name when you log in, but you can use my email address. Also, did you mean to say "popular" for potatos and oranges?
Brater said
at 12:49 pm on Dec 9, 2008
Germany spends $498.84 more than Chad every week
maxwell Vigotov said
at 12:51 pm on Dec 9, 2008
I think that the people in the global village are unfair to the less fortunate I think that the store owner should give there extra food to the less fortunate.
michael said
at 12:58 pm on Dec 9, 2008
IT'S HORRIBLE HOW PEOPLE STARVE SO MUCH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I WONDER IF THE PROBLEM WILL GET BETTER OR WORSE?????????
Mia said
at 5:47 pm on Dec 17, 2008
I don't know, if the population increases, it would be harder to find food for all those people!
Jinny said
at 1:49 pm on Jan 18, 2009
What is Latin America I thought it was South America. ~I am suprised of how many people starve.~Jinny
P.S go to http://mathalphabet.pbwiki.com
nyawira said
at 1:02 pm on Jan 19, 2009
Asia takes good care of it’s animals because it does not eat a lot of meat and that explains why they are so thin.
daniela said
at 12:38 pm on Jan 22, 2009
wow i feel so sorry for everyone who does not have food or electricity
daniela said
at 12:40 pm on Jan 22, 2009
i will have a diet of potatoes and coffee
daniela said
at 12:42 pm on Jan 22, 2009
this website has you learn so much its awsome
priyan said
at 3:20 pm on Jan 28, 2009
Thats not true DANIELA
Priyan said
at 1:01 pm on Jan 29, 2009
To much starvation.
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