Let's go Dutch

[Gob]

The Netherlands is No. 1 in the world for having the most plentiful, nutritious, healthy and affordable diet, beating France and Switzerland into second place. Chad is last in 125th spot behind Ethiopia and Angola, according to a new food database by worldwide development organization Oxfam.

European countries occupy the entire top 20 bar one – Australia ties in 8th place – while the US, Japan, New Zealand, Brazil and Canada all fall outside. African countries occupy the bottom 30 places in the table except for four – Laos, Bangladesh, Pakistan and India are there too.

Oxfam’s “Good Enough to Eat” index compares 125 countries where full data is available to create a snapshot of the different challenges people face in getting food. Oxfam’s GROW campaign is calling for urgent reform to the way food is produced and distributed around the world to end the scandal of one in eight people going hungry despite there being enough to feed everyone. The new index looks at whether people have enough to eat, food quality, affordability, and dietary health.


- See more at: http://www.oxfam.org/en/grow/pressroom/ ... Nm5aG.dpuf

[Rick]

Is it any wonder after all that hooter everything looks good to eat, something as bad for you as a Chocodile becomes nutritious

[rubato]

France is #2. No surprise there. Great food everywhere.


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[MajGenl.Meade]

Science is amazing isn't it it it it? After carefully reviewing the data, a tentative theory which is mine is ahem my theory is that the countries where there is not enough to eat are also the countries with the lowest rate of diabetes and obesity! That is my theory what is mine and that is what it is.

[Lord Jim]

Sort of the difference between countries where you wait in line for a sack of rice from an NGO relief truck, versus countries where you wait in line for a table...