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World Food Crisis | Tougas.NET — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 15:38:26 -0400

[...] heart AND makes me angry AND leaves me bewildered, wondering what more can we do?? I'm sure lots, Hungry Planet supper night is one step but it seems fairly feeble in the face of such a large [...]

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[...] night we're standing in solidarity with the world's poor eating rice & beans and the very next night we're eating factory farm, petroleum dependent (fertilizers and [...]

Hungry Planet Supper Night

renee — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 19:04:12 -0400

Recently a friend loaned us a copy of Hungry Planet: What the World Eats. An essay and photo journal featuring a breakdown of what 30 families around the world eat in a week. The kids and I used the book as a world study curriculum for a couple weeks. Then recently Damien proposed we take the "study" a step farther and suggested our family eat simply for one day each week, following a diet similar to impoverished people around the world. We decided we weren't ready for a whole day of beans, rice, gruel and weak vegetable broths but we were ready for supper once a week.

Tonight was the first night of the experiment. From a cook's perspective I like this experiment. With modern conveniences of electric stoves and pressure cookers I can cook beans very quickly so unlike many women around the world I don't spend all day gathering and cooking food. But a very simple meal of beans, rice and onions, for seasoning, is a life lesson for all of us in simplicity and empathy. We're hoping our kids will grow in compassion and a desire for justice and not grow up to think their parents were wacko deprivation freaks.

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