roast squash, quinoa and black chickpea salad

Dear Beautiful People, I am sharing with you this great recipe and the mind-boggling information that comes with it, published by Steve the Circus Gardener. As you are are celebrating by offering thanks for abundance, do give a thought to those suffering from deprivation, mentioned in Steve’s poignant article. Happy Thanksgiving!

The Circus Gardener's Kitchen

In 2016 nearly 800 million people across the world did not have enough to eat. This was not, however, due to there being insufficient food to go round.

Last month the World Food Programme published a report called Counting The Beans: The True Cost of a Plate of Food around the World.

It is an eye-opening and uncomfortable read. Using a “global index” of food prices, the report calculates the true cost of the same plate of food in different countries across the world.

Using a standard bean stew with rice as its baseline, the report shows that the ingredients to make the dish would cost a consumer in New York just $1.20. For the same ingredients the relative cost to someone in Bangladesh would be $11.25. In Yemen the relative cost would be $46.30 and in South Sudan it would be $321.70.

To put it another way, to…

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