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I’ve gone without the last six meals as part of a fast that about 40 people we know about are participating in. Many are PC(USA) staff who are trying to discern ways to respond to the Global Food Crisis<\/a>; others are located in many places around the U.S. and in other countries.<\/p>\n

Now, just another 23 hours to go. I’m impressed at the fatigue. I’ve lost my appetite for the most part, though the garlicky smell of Haeja’s stir-fry did pique it! While I wanted to eat yesterday, today it is my sluggish body – for which a plodding walk is the most I can pull off – that seems to be telling me to eat. “Do something,”<\/strong> my body tells me. And when I lay down at 4:00 this afternoon, my heart was racing and shaking my whole body with every pump. Finally I slept and my heart had calmed. But I choose the fast – desperate poverty did not.<\/p>\n

After my family finished dinner tonight, I pulled out an amazing book – Hungry Planet: What the World Eats<\/a><\/strong> – a book my son has spent hours studying. I said, “Julian, this family in Chad only spends…” He interrupted me and said, “$1.23…I know!”<\/p>\n

\"Chad\"<\/a>
\nThe Aboubakar family of Darfur province, Sudan, in front of their tent in the Breidjing Refugee Camp, in eastern Chad, with a week’s worth of food. <\/strong>\u00a9 2005 Peter Menzel from ‘Hungry Planet: What the World Eats’<\/p>\n

<\/span><\/p>\n

Food Expenditure for One Week: 685 CFA francs\/$1.23<\/strong>
\n**Market value of food rations since they are in a refugee camp; if purchased locally: $24.37<\/p>\n

Read on to see what is on the menu for the week, and to compare them with a family in Germany. You can also see more photos and listen to a 8-minute segment<\/a> about the families on NPR.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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