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  • Fruits at the Pasadena Farmers' Market in Los Angeles, California.
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  • Jonathan Gold, Pulitzer Prize winning food critic for the LA Weekly shopping at the Pasadena Farmers' Market on a Saturday morning. Because restaurant reviewers try to keep their identity secret in order to write unbiased reviews, Jonathan agreed to be photographed under the condition his face be obscured.   (Jonathan Gold is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • Jonathan Gold, Pulitzer Prize winning food critic for the LA Weekly shopping at the Pasadena Farmers' Market on a Saturday morning. Because restaurant reviewers try to keep their identity secret in order to write unbiased reviews, Jonathan agreed to be photographed under the condition his face be obscured.  (Jonathan Gold is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Different varieties of berries for sale at the Pasadena Farmers' Market in Los Angeles, California.
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  • Different varieties of berries for sale at the Pasadena Farmers' Market in Los Angeles, California.
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  • Jonathan Gold, a Pulitzer Prize winning food critic for the LA Weekly shopping at the Pasadena Farmers' Market on a Saturday morning. Because restaurant reviewers try to keep their identity secret in order to write unbiased reviews, Jonathan agreed to be photographed under the condition his face be obscured.  (Jonathan Gold is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Jonathan Gold, Pulitzer Prize winning food critic for the LA Weekly shopping at the Pasadena Farmers' Market on a Saturday morning with his son (laeft). Because restaurant reviewers try to keep their identity secret in order to write unbiased reviews, Jonathan agreed to be photographed under the condition his face be obscured. (Jonathan Gold is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • Two farmers harvest some edible caterpillars that are infesting their cornfield in Puebla, Mexico. Image from the book project Man Eating Bugs: The Art and Science of Eating Insects.
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  • Rice: rice harvest. Richvale, California, USA. 1980.
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  • Astrid Holmann of the Hollmann Sturm family in Hamburg, Germany with her daughter Lillith Sturm, shopping in the local twice weekly neighborhood market for potatos. They were photographed for the Hungry Planet: What I Eat project with a week's worth of food in June. Model Released.
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  • Astrid Holmann of the Hollmann Sturm family in Hamburg, Germany with her daughter Lillith Sturm, shopping in the local twice weekly neighborhood market for potatos. They were photographed for the Hungry Planet: What I Eat project with a week's worth of food in June. Model Released.
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  • Tierra Santa religious theme park, Buenos Aires
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  • Phousy public market in Ban Saylom Village, just south of Luang Prabang, Laos.
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  • Orlando Ayme shows off one of his sheep which has 4 horns, which he thinks is hilarious. Orlando and his sons and a neighbor are returning from cultivating their potato field. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
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  • Pigs/Swine/Hog: Reading fat layers by sonogram at the Dee Brothers hog farm, State Center, Iowa. USA.
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  • Picking tea leaves on the plantation of the Tshivhase Tea Estate in Venda (North Transvaal), South Africa.
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  • Fruits and vegetables displayed at the Central Market in Riga, Latvia.  Riga's Central Market, established in 1201, is one of Europe's largest and most ancient markets.
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  • Juan Cruz and Pedro Mendoza search for red agave worms while cultivating their maguey cacti; the worms end up in tequila bottles to both certify the regional authenticity and to confirm the proof of the brew, as well as on dinner plates fried with corn tortillas, refried beans, grated cheese, sour cream, and avocado to make Chinicuiles con Aguacate, near Matatlán, Mexico. (Man Eating Bugs page 114-115)
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  • Villagers in the Asmat extract sago grubs from a rotted sago palm log. Sago grubs (Rhynchophorus ferrugineus, the larvae of Capricorn beetles), are extracted from the interior of a sago palm, Komor village, Irian Jaya, Indonesia. The Asmat is the world's largest (and hottest), swamp. When roasted on a spit, they are fatty and bacon-flavored, although the skins are rather chewy. Image from the book project Man Eating Bugs: The Art and Science of Eating Insects.
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  • Vang Vieng, Laos.
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  • Dried fish in a village near Vang Vieng, Laos.
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  • Astrid Holmann (R) of the Hollmann Sturm family in Hamburg, Germany with her daughter Lillith Sturm. They were photographed for the Hungry Planet: What I Eat project with a week's worth of food in June. Model Released.
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  • Astrid Holmann (R) of the Hollmann Sturm family in Hamburg, Germany with her daughter Lillith Sturm. They were photographed for the Hungry Planet: What I Eat project with a week's worth of food in June. Model Released.
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  • Works Project Administration (WPA) mural portrays California agriculture. Coit tower, San Francisco, California. USA The murals in Coit Tower were painted under the supervision of Mexican artist Diego Rivera during the 1930's, and carry strong socialist themes. They were very controversial at that time.
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  • Gary and and his father Floyd Zaiger in one of their orchards. Floyd Zaiger (Born 1926) is a biologist who is most noted for his work in fruit genetics. Zaiger Genetics, located in Modesto, California, USA, was founded in 1958. Zaiger has spent his life in pursuit of the perfect fruit, developing both cultivars of existing species and new hybrids such as the pluot and the aprium. Zaiger with his son under an aprium (apricot & plum) tree. 1983. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Tomatoes: Blackwelder tomato harvester at night, near Stockton, California, USA.
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  • Tomatoes: Blackwelder tomato harvester, near Stockton, California, USA.
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  • Rice: aerial of 3 rice harvesters near Richvale, California, USA. 1980.
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  • Tierra Santa religious theme park, Buenos Aires
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  • Phousy public market in Ban Saylom Village, just south of Luang Prabang, Laos.
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  • Phousy public market in Ban Saylom Village, just south of Luang Prabang, Laos.
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  • Phousy public market in Ban Saylom Village, just south of Luang Prabang, Laos.
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  • Phousy public market in Ban Saylom Village, just south of Luang Prabang, Laos.
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  • Thursday Market in the Plaza Del Raso, Calahorra. Calahorra is the major town in the Baja region of La Rioja. The Romans had a great presence here in ancient times and this is the birthplace of both the great Roman scholar Quintilian (A.D 35-100) and the poet Prudentius. .La Rioja, Calahorra, Spain.
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  • Thursday Market in the Plaza Del Raso, Calahorra. Calahorra is the major town in the Baja region of La Rioja. The Romans had a great presence here in ancient times and this is the birthplace of both the great Roman scholar Quintilian (A.D 35-100) and the poet Prudentius. .La Rioja, Calahorra, Spain.
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  • Rice fields being prepared near Menghan in Xishaungbanna, China.
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  • Sorting freshly picked tea leaves on the plantation of the Tshivhase Tea Estate in Venda (North Transvaal), South Africa.
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  • A vendor arranges vegetables on her stall at the Central Market in Riga, the capital of Latvia. Riga's Central Market, established in 1201, is one of Europe's largest and most ancient markets.
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  • People shop for vegetables at a market in Lhasa, Tibet.
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  • Asmattans (Plipus Manmank's family) undergo the laborious task of sago processing?the goal is the inner starchy pith of the sago palm, which is mixed with water, roasted in dry leaves, and eaten. (There are many other ways to prepare and eat sago flour). Near the Komor Village, Irian Jaya, Indonesia. (Man Eating Bugs page 68)
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  • Customers wait for their orders at Marcus Dirr's stall at a bi-weekly market while children play, in the Wiehre Residential District of Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany.  (Marcus Dirr is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) Germans are among the biggest meat eaters in Europe, but eat slightly less meat than in decades past.
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  • Nicasio Huaman cuts the mature seed head stems of the arawanku plant to reach the tanyo kuro worms, Urubamba River Valley, Chicón, Peru. (Man Eating Bugs page 152.)
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  • Two young Inca herders smile shyly at the camera before disappearing down the mountainside to tend their llamas and sheep in the high mountain passes above the city of Cuzco on the southern slopes of the Andes. (Man Eating Bugs page 150,151)
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  • Markus Dirr, a master butcher, visits his neighbor, Hannes Ekström, a dairy farmer in Endingen, near Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany, to discuss which veal calf will next go into his sausages. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) The Dirrs know the farmers who supply their animals, and in fact hand choose the animals and watch them grow.Germans are among the biggest meat eaters in Europe, but eat slightly less meat than in decades past.
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  • Rice: Dick Harter (left), organic rice farmer with Richard Skillin (right), non-organic rice farmer. Butte County, Northern California, USA. MODEL RELEASED. 1990.
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  • Lan Guihua, a widowed farmer, tends to her garden at her home in Ganjiagou Village, Sichuan Province, China.   (Lan Guihua is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)  The caloric value of her day's worth of food on a typical day in June was 1900 kcals. She is 68 years of age; 5 feet, 3 inches tall; and 121 pounds. Like most of her neighbors, the widow farmer and lifelong resident of Ganjiagou Village,  in Sichuan Province, keeps chickens, grinds her own soy beans for soy milk, and has a garden that supplies much of her greens. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Farmer Joel Salatin and his wife show a dead fox to his mother at their farm in Virginia's Shenandoah Valley. (Joel Salatin is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • Illinois farmer Gordon Stine checks a mechanical circuit breaker on a drier fan in a silo at his leased farm in St. Elmo, Illinois. MODEL RELEASED.  (Gordon Stine is featured in the book What I Eat; Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • Lan Guihua, a widowed farmer, in front of her home with her typical day's worth of food in Ganjiagou Village, Sichuan Province, China. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) The caloric value of her day's worth of food on a typical day in June was 1900 kcals. She is 68 years of age; 5 feet, 3 inches tall; and 121 pounds. Her farmhouse is tucked into a bamboo-forested hillside beneath her husband's grave, and the courtyard opens onto a view of citrus groves and vegetable fields. Chickens and dogs roam freely in the packed-earth courtyard, and firewood and brush for her kitchen wok are stacked under the eaves. Although homegrown vegetables and rice are her staples, chicken feathers and a bowl that held scalding water for easier feather plucking are clues to the meat course of a special meal for visitors. In this region, each rural family is its own little food factory and benefits from thousands of years of agricultural knowledge passed down from generation to generation. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Grain Farmer Gordon Stine tests grain for moisture content at his leased farm in St. Elmo, Illinois.  (Gordon Stine is featured in the book What I Eat; Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • Illinois farmer Gordon Stine tends to his soy bean field at his farm in St.Elmo, Illinois.   (Gordon Stine is featured in the book What I Eat; Around the World in 80 Diets.) MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Joel Salatin, a farmer and author, relaxes after a long day at his farm in Virginia's Shenandoah Valley. (Joel Salatin is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)  MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Joel Salatin, a farmer and author, goes about the day's chores at his farm in Virginia's Shenandoah Valley. (Joel Salatin is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)  MODEL RELEASED.
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  • An apprentice picks eggs at farmer Joel Salatin's farm in Virginia's Shenandoah Valley.  (Joel Salatin is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • Joel Salatin, a farmer and author, with his wife at their farm in Virginia's Shenandoah Valley. (Joel Salatin is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)  Much of his daily fare is from his own farm, including applesauce and apple cider canned by his wife, Teresa, who fills the basement larder with the bounty of their farm each year.
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  • Joel Salatin, a farmer and author, in an eggmobile (portabled henhouse) at his farm in Virginia's Shenandoah Valley. (Joel Salatin is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)  Much of his daily fare is from his own farm, including applesauce and apple cider canned by his wife, Teresa, who fills the basement larder with the bounty of their farm each year.  MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Farmer Joel Salatin's apprentice, Andy Wendt gathers eggs inside a portable henhouse, which is moved to a fresh section of pasture every few days at the Salatins farm in Shenandoah, Virginia. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • Grain Farmer Gordon Stine driving a truck at his leased farm in St. Elmo, Illinois.  (Gordon Stine is featured in the book What I Eat; Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • Farmer Joel Salatin goes about the day's chores at his farm in Virginia's Shenandoah Valley. (Joel Salatin is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)  MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Joel Salatin, a farmer and author, sits in a woodlot at his farm in Virginia's Shenandoah Valley. (Joel Salatin is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)  MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Joel Salatin, a farmer and author, in a wood lot near his farm in Virginia's Shenandoah Valley. (Joel Salatin is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)  MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Sikh farmer in Yuba City, California. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • A farmer cultivates his fields near Jinghong in Xishaungbanna, China.
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  • A farmer in her field with her water buffalo in Yangshuo, China.
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  • Nuclear energy: Nuclear Power Plant cooling towers punctuate the agrarian German countryside, with a farmer and his wife working in the foreground, Offingen, Germany. (1987) .
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  • Gordon Stine, a farmer, with his typical day's worth of food in his family's soybean field in St. Elmo, Illinois. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) The caloric value of his day's worth of food in the month of September was 4,100 kcals. He is 56 years old; 5 feet, 9 inches tall; and 245 pounds. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Farmer Joel Salatin's apprentice, Andy Wendt carries eggs from the portable chicken house back to the the farm house in Shenandoah, Virginia. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • Faith D'Aluisio, co-author of the book, What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets, arranges the food items of Kibet Serem, a tea producer and small scale farmer in Kericho, Kenya. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets). Kibet cares for this small tea plantation near Kericho, Kenya, that his father planted on their property when Kibet was a young boy. He is responsible for milking the cows that his family owns. He sells extra milk to a nearby school for a government feeding program and gives some to his mother who makes yogurt and sells it. His staple food is ugali, a maize meal porridge.
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  • Lan Guihua (right), a widowed farmer, and her neighbor bleed a freshly killed chicken at her home in Ganjiagou Village, Sichuan Province, China. (She is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets). The caloric value of her day's worth of food on a typical day in June was 1900 kcals. She is 68 years of age; 5 feet, 3 inches tall; and 121 pounds. Her farmhouse is tucked into a bamboo-forested hillside beneath her husband's grave, and the courtyard opens onto a view of citrus groves and vegetable fields. Chickens and dogs roam freely in the packed-earth courtyard, and firewood and brush for her kitchen wok are stacked under the eaves. Although homegrown vegetables and rice are her staples, chicken feathers and a bowl that held scalding water for easier feather plucking are clues to the meat course of a special meal for visitors. In this region, each rural family is its own little food factory and benefits from thousands of years of agricultural knowledge passed down from generation to generation.  She lives in the area of Production Team 7 of Ganjiagou Village, 1.5 hours south of the provincial capital of Sichuan Province?Chengdu.
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  • Gordon Stine, a farmer, with his typical day's worth of food in his family's soybean field in St. Elmo, Illinois. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) The caloric value of his day's worth of food in the month of September was 4,100 kcals. He is 56 years old; 5 feet, 9 inches tall; and 245 pounds. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Joel Salatin, a farmer and author with his typical day's worth of food on his family farm in Virginia's Shenandoah Valley. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) The caloric value of his day's worth of food on a day in the month of October was 3,900 kcals. He is 50 years old; 5 feet. 11 inches tall; and 198 pounds.  Much of his daily fare is from his own farm, including applesauce and apple cider canned by his wife, Teresa, who fills the basement larder with the bounty of their farm each year.  MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Kibet Serem, a tea plantation farmer, with his day's worth in his tea plantation near Kericho, Kenya. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) The caloric value of his typical day's worth of food in the month of February was 3100 kcals. He is 25 years if age; 5 feet, 11 inches tall; and 143 pounds. He cares for this small tea plantation that his father planted on their property when Kibet was a young boy. He is responsible for milking the cows that his family owns. He sells extra milk to a nearby school for a government feeding program and gives some to his mother who makes yogurt and sells it. His staple food is ugali, a maize meal porridge. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Faith D'Aluisio, co-author of the book, What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets, arranges the food items of Kibet Serem, a tea producer and small scale farmer in Kericho, Kenya. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets). Kibet cares for this small tea plantation near Kericho, Kenya, that his father planted on their property when Kibet was a young boy. He is responsible for milking the cows that his family owns. He sells extra milk to a nearby school for a government feeding program and gives some to his mother who makes yogurt and sells it. His staple food is ugali, a maize meal porridge.
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  • Sikh farmer in Yuba City, California. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Sikh farmer in Yuba City, California. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Rice: Dick Harter, organic rice farmer. Seen with azola, nirtrogen-fixing aquatic plant. Butte County, Northern California, USA. MODEL RELEASED. 1990.
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  • Hector Diaz Castellano, a Zapotec Indian farmer in El Trapiche (Oaxaca State), Mexico, checks pollination of corn plants he is growing for seed corn for the Itanoni Tortilleria.
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  • After moving the portable henhouses to a fresh pasture with his tractor at dawn, Virginia farmer Joel Salatin heads back to the barns to help rotate cattle from one pasture to another. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) The caloric value of his day's worth of food on a day in the month of October was 3,900 kcals. He is 50; 5 feet 11 inches and 198 pounds. Much of his daily fare is from his own farm, including applesauce and apple cider canned by his wife, Teresa, who fills the basement larder with the bounty of their farm each year.
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  • Jose Angel Galaviz Carrillo, a Pima farmer, prepares to milk a cow in a corral adjacent to his house in Maycoba, Sonora, Mexico. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) Milking is a chore that rotates among extended family members.
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  • A farmer prepares rice fields for planting in  Ha Tay Province, outside Hanoi, Vietnam.
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  • Illinois farmer Gordon Stine checks on a nephew's steers, which are being fattened for slaughter on an adjacent farm in St. Elmo, Illinois. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) The proportion of income spent on food in the United States has declined steadily since the 1950s and is now among the lowest in the world. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • A man milks a goat in a backyard in the town of Shibam, Hadhramawt, Yemen. Shibam is a World Heritage Site. The old walled city with it's talk mud brick buildings has been called 'the Manhattan of the desert".
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  • A man herds a rafter of turkeys between rice fields and a cemetery in  Ha Tay Province outside Hanoi, Vietnam.
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  • A man herds a rafter of turkeys between rice fields and a cemetery in  Ha Tay Province outside Hanoi, Vietnam.
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  • Peter Menzel, photojournalist and co-author of the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets photographs rancher's wife Solange Da Silva Correia at her home  near Manacapuru, Brazil. (Solange Da Silva Correia is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) MODEL RELEASED. PJM
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  • An apprentice at  Joel Salatin's farm tends to pigs as they feed in an open area at the farm in Virginia's Shenandoah Valley.  (Joel Salatin is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • Tibetan nomadic yak herder Karsal's son wrangles the calves so that Phurba can milk their mothers near their tent on the Tibetan Plateau.  (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • Tibetan nomadic yak herder Karsal's wife, Phurba, has milked one of the family's dris in the early morning at their tent on the Tibetan Plateau. (Karsal is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) The male yaks remain free at night, grazing at higher elevations, and the dris and their calves are tethered close to the tent to make milking in the morning convenient.
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  • Shahnaz Hossain Begum milks one of her cows at her home in Bari Majlish village outside Dhaka, Bangladesh. (Shahnaz Hossain Begum is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)  The caloric value of her day's worth of food on a typical day in December was 2000 kcals. She is 38; 5' 2" and 130 pounds.  She got her first micro loan several years ago, from BRAC, Bangladesh Rehabilitation Assistance Committee, to buy cows to produce milk for sale. This mother of four was able to earn enough to build several rental rooms next to her home in her village of Bari Majlish, an hour outside Dhaka. She and her tenants share a companionable outdoor cooking space and all largely cook traditional Bangladeshi foods such as dahl, ruti (also spelled roti), and vegetable curries. She and her family don't drink the milk that helps provide their income. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Shahnaz Begum, a mother of four, outside her home with her microloan-financed cows and her typical day's worth of food outside her home in the village of Bari Majlish, an hour outside Dhaka. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) MODEL RELEASED
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  • Sikh farm family at home, Yuba City, California. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Floyd Zaiger under an aprium hybrid tree. Floyd Zaiger (Born 1926) is a biologist who is most noted for his work in fruit genetics. Zaiger Genetics, located in Modesto, California, USA, was founded in 1958. Zaiger has spent his life in pursuit of the perfect fruit, developing both cultivars of existing species and new hybrids such as the pluot and the aprium. Zaiger under an aprium (apricot & plum) tree- MODEL RELEASED. 1983.
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  • Rice: rice harvest. Richvale, California, USA. MODEL RELEASED. 1980.
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  • Culled carrots are used for cattle feed at Don Smith's Sun-Gro drying operation on an unused airport runway. Famoso, California (near Bakersfield). USA.
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  • Irrigation: portrait of a field worker with [strawberry] field behind. Sprinkler irrigation. He is wet because his job is to adjust the sprinkers while they are running. Kern County, California. USA.
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  • Maddox Dairy in Riverdale, California. Artificial insemination.
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  • Crop dusting. Boxes of the defoliant Paraquat, which is sprayed on cotton prior to harvest in Kern County, California, USA, by crop dusters.
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  • A woman in a white top hat picks lima beans near Cuzco, Peru.
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  • Maddox Dairy in Riverdale, California. Artificial insemination. Maddox Dairy is currently home to 3500 milking cows, calves, heifers and bulls. The dairy is a "birth to milking operation", with four, double-12, pregnant herringbone-milking parlors, free stall barns, calf raising barn and calving facilities. The dairy does their own embryo transfer work and markets their genetics worldwide. The Maddox Dairy was honored in 2001 with the Distinguished Dairy Cattle Breeder award for being a "Visionary Holstein Breeder", having bred more than 330 Gold Medal Dams, 502 Excellent cows, and their advancements in gene research for the Dairy industry. .
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  • Tobacco - Clifton Walton smoking a cigarette while overseeing preparation for tobacco seedling ground by burning off oak lumber mill scraps and brush on his farm in Charlotte, Tennessee. MODEL RELEASED. USA.
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