Hungry Planet By Peter Menzel and Faith D'Aluisio

We looked at a gallery of photographs from Peter Menzel's book, Hungry Planet.  We took notes on clipboards about what we wondered and what we noticed.  Here are some of the big questions that we came up with as a class:

1. Why does the U.S (and Europe) eat differently than the rest of the world?  Why fewer vegetables?
2. Which continent has the most expensive food?
3. Why is the book called the Hungry Planet?
4. Why are there such big differences in food supplies between countries?
5. In what ways does how much food countries have change them?
6. What percentage of the world lives in poverty?
7. What is it that makes countries poor?  Is it size?
8. How much does government cause a country to be poor?