World hunger, homelessness, disease research, poverty, healthcare, student debt… There are so many better ways to spend 44 billion dollars than making twitter safe for hate speech and false information.
It’s such a Western idea that meat is the best source of protein, disregarding the fact that the majority of people get their proteins from cereal grains and not meat. I think it says a lot about the priviledge that members of developed countries have
I’ve always found it deeply ironic how people dismiss veganism as “privileged” while failing to appreciate what most people in the world actually eat. Worldwide, an estimated 2 billion people live primarily on a meat-based diet, while an estimated 4 billion live primarily on a plant-based diet. In the Chinese-Japanese, Australian, Hindustani, Central Asian, Near Eastern, Mediterranean, European-Siberian, South American, North American, Central American and Mexican regions, every single staple food is vegan; staple being defined as a food that is eaten regularly and in such quantities as to constitute the dominant part of a person’s diet and supply a major proportion of their energy and nutrient needs. In fact, just 13.5% of food eaten globally is composed of meat, milk, fish or eggs.
Meat consumption used to be largely a class issue in Western countries until relatively recently, even though European meat consumption in general has always historically been higher than the rest of the world. All of the cookbooks in early modern Europe described the meals of the rich. Rich people were usually the ones eating meat at every meal, and everyone else ate mostly bread.
It was the overall wealth gained by imperialism,colonialism, and general exploitation of the rest of the world that raised the standards for whole populations of Western countries, like the US, making us globally “rich” by comparison, and giving poorer people in these countries more access to meat and dairy. Therefore, simply eating meat became less of a status symbol, so the elites started to focus on more difficult to obtain foods from colonized countries, like vanilla (which is now ubiquitous, but was quite the delicacy back in the day), and uphold certain kinds of meat, like lobster, caviar, etc., as the new status symbols which artificially inflated their prices.
When Italians first started immigrating to America during the Industrial Era, they were shocked that even poor Americans were eating much more meat and dairy on a regular basis than people back in Italy. So they started creating new, decadent recipes to incorporate as much of these “elite” foods as they could as a sort of status symbol in their own right. Now, what we consider to be Italian food - rich, meat laden pasta dishes drowned in cheese and sauce - looks nothing like traditional Italian food.
Not to mention the fact that most of the world is lactose intolerant: it’s estimated that only about a quarter of the world’s population can digest dairy after childhood (comprised of almost entirely white European/white North American people).
The winners of World Food Day 2021 Poster Contest!
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Atrin afsharitavana
age 8, Iran
The journey of green seed to the warm table of the house with the hands of the most honorable man in the world, kind farmers
MONIA MILIACCA
age 5, Italy
Madre Natura ci regala il Semino Mino, il quale ci racconta tutto il suo fantastico viaggio, dalla Terra alla nostra Tavola.
Ved Shah
age 6, India
This poster depicts the journey of rice. It is important to avoid wasting food and understand the importance of it.
彦熹 陶
age 9, China
粮食是色彩斑斓的，有绿色、黄色、蓝色，白色等等，热爱生活，珍惜粮食，希望每个人都能生活得多姿多彩！
Simin Habib
age 10, Bangladesh
Crop and dairy products contribute a lot in our food system. Appropriate market linkage, value addition could play vital role food security and nutrition with export potentiality of the food products.
Madeline Jursey Golosinda
age 12, United Arab Emirates
My artwork is about foods from the farms to our homes, sustainably farmed foods for better nutrition and available foods to everyone because of better production. A better environment is also shown where people enjoy on the picnic grounds and finally these all means a better life for all.
Leonie Bella Vassiliou
age 14, Cyprus
In the centre of the poster there is a seed, that small seed connects us all in one way or another. As we are all connected, together we can make a difference in making a sustainable world. Educate our generation to buy local fresh produce, reduce waste, recycle, compost. Together we can make a difference.
Polina Sobakina
age 15, Spain
In this poster, I have depicted the path that food takes before getting to our table. The hand supporting the plate symbolizes nature and reminds us that if we do not take good care of it, we will simply starve to death.
Virsa Cinta Ramadhani
age 15, Indonesia
Traditional agriculture from planting, processing crops to become rice, to be cooked into rice.
Christine Park
age 16, Republic of Korea
Our food on the dinner table originated from various countries. Crossing the world with boats and planes, the time and effort of everyone comes together to establish a delicious meal.
[Image caption: Bolded text is colored yellow in the source image. Text reads as follows: “Friendly reminder that Elon Musk told the UN that if they gave him a budgeted breakdown of how $6 billion could end world hunger, he would do it. They gave him a detailed budget of how the money would used, and then he DIDN’T DO IT. Instead he decided to buy Twitter for $45 billion.” This is accompanied by a picture of Elon Musk leaning to one side and giving two thumbs up, and a credit in the corner reading @CaptAmazo. End caption.]
