I received an e-mail with this same title from one of my good friends. As far as I can tell, these images are making their way around the Internet so you may have already seen them, but I think that they are pretty striking. They show families of different sizes from around the world and how much food they consume in one week. See the complete photo essay at Time magazine's site. These photos originally came from a book called Hungry Planet: What the World Eats by Peter Menzel and Faith D'Aluisio.United States: The Revis family of North CarolinaFood expenditure for one week: $341.98clip_image002Ecuador: The Ayme family of TingoFood expenditure for one week: $31.55clip_image008Chad: The Aboubakar family of Breidjing CampFood expenditure for one week: 685 CFA Francs or $1.23 clip_image010Pretty remarkable stuff.

Marianne L. Tierney is a PhD student in theology at Boston College.

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