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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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, 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • A farmer prepares rice fields for planting in  Ha Tay Province, outside Hanoi, Vietnam.
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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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  • 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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  • Rice: rice harvest. Richvale, California, USA. 1980.
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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • A man herds a rafter of turkeys between rice fields and a cemetery in  Ha Tay Province outside Hanoi, Vietnam.
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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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  • Judges from Japan evaluating contestants at a Koi fish show in California. Koi are a variety of the common carp, Cyprinus carpio. Today Koi are bred in nearly every country and considered to be the most popular fresh-water ornamental pond fish. They are often referred to as being "living jewels" or "swimming flowers". If kept properly, koi can live about 30-40 years. Some have been reportedly known to live up to 200 years. The Koi hobbyists have bred over 100 color varieties. Every Koi is unique, and the patterns that are seen on a specific Koi can never be exactly repeated. The judging of Koi at exhibitions has become a refined art, which requires many years of understanding the relationship between color, pattern, size and shape, presentation, and a number of other key traits. Prize Koi can cost several thousand dollars  USA. 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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  • USA_AG_PIG_06_xs.Pigs/Swine/Hog: Vaccinating a newborn pig at the Mitri Hog Ranch. USA..
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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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  • Pigs/Swine/Hog: Bill Liston's Iowa hog farm uses old fashioned, outdoor confinement. USA.
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  • William R. Brazel holds a photograph of his father, the rancher who found the wreckage of what has been purported to be the crash of a UFO outside Roswell, New Mexico, in 1947. It was near Roswell on the evening of 2 July 1947 that many UFO sightings were reported during a thunderstorm. Next morning a rancher, Mac Brazel, discovered strange wreckage in a field. When the impact site was located, a UFO craft and alien bodies were allegedly found. On 8 July 1947, the Roswell Daily Record announced the capture of a flying saucer. The official explanation was that it was a crashed weather balloon. Many Roswell inhabitants, however, believe this a cover up, and Roswell has become a symbol for UFO enthusiasts. Model Released (1997).
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  • Frank Ochmann, Stern Magazine writer wearing bug glasses, by old trailer on ranch, Roswell, New Mexico. Model Released (1947 UFO Incident.)  (1997).
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  • Ermelinda Ayme wraps her baby in two shawls tied in different directions as she cultivates potatoes with her husband Orlando in their village of Tingo, central Andes, Ecuador. (From the book Hungry Planet; What the World Eats  (p. 117) Ermelinda Ayme is also one of the 80 people featured with one day's food in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) When she and her husband Orlando arrived at the field, a ten-minute walk from their home, they said a quick prayer to Pacha Mama (Mother Earth) before working the land. Occasionally, Ermelinda has to adjust the baby's position, but generally she has no problem carrying her tiny passenger. The Ayme family of Tingo, Ecuador, a village in the central Andes, is one of the thirty families featured, with a weeks' worth of food, in the book Hungry Planet: What the World Eats. The family consists of Ermelinda Ayme Sichigalo, 37, Orlando Ayme, 35, and their children: Livia, 15, Moises, 11, Jessica, 10, Natalie, 8, Alvarito, 4, Mauricio, 30 months, and Orlando hijo (Junior), 9 months. Lucia, 5, lives with her grandparents to help them out. (Please refer to Hungry Planet book p. 106-107 for a family portrait [Image number ECU04.0001.xxf1rw] including a weeks' worth of food, and the family's detailed food list with total cost.) MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Rancher José Angel Galaviz Carrillo with his family at his home on their ranch in the Sierra Mountains near Maycoba, in the Mexican state of Sonora.  (José Angel Galaviz Carrillo is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • Rancher José Angel Galaviz Carrillo repairs barbed wire fences at his ranch in the Sierra Mountains near Maycoba, in the Mexican state of Sonora.  (José Angel Galaviz Carrillo is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Don Jose Angel (72), the father of José Angel Galaviz, a rancher of Pima heritage who lives with his family in the Sierra Mountains  near Maycoba, in the Mexican state of Sonora. (José Angel Galaviz Carrillo is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • Rancher José Angel Galaviz Carrillo repairs fences with his 22 year old nephew, Rigoberto at his home in the Sierra Mountains near Maycoba, in the Mexican state of Sonora.  (José Angel Galaviz Carrillo is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • Gordon Stine harvests corn with his John Deere eight-row combine on leased land. (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; 5 feet nine inches tall,  and 245 pounds.
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  • A prayer and then supper at Joel and Teresa Salatin's eighteenth-century farmhouse in Shenandoah, Virginia. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) Joel (center) and Teresa (at his left) are joined by Joel's mother, Lucille, who lives on the farm, and farm apprentices Andy Wendt and Ben Beichler. Supper tonight is Teresa's honey-baked Polyface Farms chicken, which ?can't be served without her homemade applesauce,? says Joel. In addition, there are buttered potatoes, garden-fresh green beans with cured bacon, buttered beets, and sliced fresh garden vegetables. But Joel's favorite meal of the day? Breakfast! ?Aw man, pancakes, eggs, and sausage or bacon!?
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  • Rancher José Angel Galaviz Carrillo repairs fences with his 22 year old nephew, Rigoberto at his home in the Sierra Mountains near Maycoba, in the Mexican state of Sonora. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • Selling sheep at a livestock market in rural Ecuador to raise money to buy food for the family.  (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • A worker on a tea plantation, near Kericho, Kenya, owned by Unilever. Workers live in company housing and make $3 to $9 US per day, depending on how much tea they pick. They are paid by the kilo. The young tea leaves  are picked every two weeks.
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  • A tea plantation, near Kericho, Kenya, owned by Unilever. Workers live in company housing and make $3 to $9 US per day, depending on how much tea they pick. They are paid by the kilo. The young tea leaves  are picked every two weeks.
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  • José Angel Galaviz Carrillo, a rancher of Pima heritage living in the Sierra Mountains near Maycoba, Sonora, Mexico, with one day's worth of food. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)  The caloric value of his day's worth of food in August was 2900 kcals. He is 33 years of age; 5 feet, 8 inches tall; and 167 pounds. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Solange Da Silva Correia, a rancher's wife, with family members in their house overlooking the Solimoes River, with her typical day's worth of food. (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 the month of November was 3400 kcals.  She is 49 years of age; 5 feet 2.5 inches tall; and 168 pounds.  She and her husband, Francisco (sitting behind her, at right), live outside the village of Caviana with three of their four grandchildren in a house built by his grandfather. They raise cattle to earn income?and sometimes a sheep or two to eat themselves?but generally they rely on their daily catch of fish, and eggs from their chickens, for animal protein. They harvest fruit and Brazil nuts on their property and buy rice, pasta, and cornmeal from a store in Caviana. They also purchase Solange's favorite soft drink made from guarana?a highly caffeinated berry indigenous to the country.  MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Oaxacan weaver Benito stands by prickly pear cacti with a mortar of ground cochineal; the red dye is made from boiling cochineal female scale insects (Dactylopius coccus) ((the males live blind only long enough to reproduce)) to remove their protective coatings, and then they are then ground into a red pasty dye. The cochineal feed off the prickly pear cacti. Oaxaca, Mexico. (Man Eating Bugs page 121)
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  • Floyd Zaiger evaluates peaches in the field. He has his notebook with him that contains complete histories and periodic evaluations of every 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. Fruit trees in bloom - MODEL RELEASED. 1983.
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  • Floyd Zaiger with a "Pluot", a cross between a plum and an apricot. (the fruit is back lit with a pencil light battery stobe. 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 a pluot fruit (plum & apricot) -MODEL RELEASED. 1983.
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  • Floyd Zaiger with "Zaiger's brides" at night in front of a test block of flowering trees. Hand-pollinated trees in barrels are covered with cheesecloth nets, which keeps stray bees from pollinating flowers with uncontrolled pollen. These draped trees are called "Zaiger's brides" by employees. 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. Fruit trees in bloom -MODEL RELEASED. 1983.
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  • Pigs/Swine/Hog: Vaccinating a newborn pig at the Mitri Hog Ranch. USA.
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  • Pigs/Swine/Hog: Vaccinating a newborn pig at the Mitri Hog Ranch. USA.
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  • Farm workers cull variant marigold flower plants grown for seed: Lompoc, California.
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  • Maddox Dairy in Riverdale, California. Artificial insemination.
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  • A man cultives his terrace rice fields near Ubud at Penatahan in Bali, Indonesia.
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  • Pigs/Swine/Hog: Vaccinating a newborn pig at the Mitri Hog Ranch. USA..
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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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  • 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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  • Darel Walton and his new bride on the porch of their rented rural house near Charlotte, Tennessee. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • The father of rancher José Angel Galaviz Carrillo, with Jose's sons at their home in the Sierra Mountains near Maycoba, in the Mexican state of Sonora.  (José Angel Galaviz Carrillo is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • Rancher José Angel Galaviz Carrillo repairs fences with his 22 year old nephew, Rigoberto at his home in the Sierra Mountains near Maycoba, in the Mexican state of Sonora.  (José Angel Galaviz Carrillo is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • Rancher José Angel Galaviz repairs fences with his 22 year old nephew, Rigoberto, at his home in the Sierra Mountains  near Maycoba, in the Mexican state of Sonora.  (José Angel Galaviz Carrillo is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • José Angel Galaviz, a rancher of Pima heritage living in the Sierra Mountains near Maycoba opens a corral at his home in the Mexican state of Sonora.  (Jose Angel Galaviz Carrillo is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Jose Angel Galaviz Carrillo carries a bucket of milk after milking cows at a corral at his home in Maycoba, Sonora, Mexico. Milking is a chore that rotates among extended family members. (Jose Angel Galaviz Carrillo is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Tibetan nomadic yak herder Karsal's wife, Phurba, milks one of the family's dris in the early morning at their home in the Tibetan Plateau. (From the 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, and to prevent the calves from suckling all the milk.
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  • A woman scrapes a sheep's skin of its hair in the snow in Ghayoumabad village, near the highway between Yazd and Esfahan in the foothills of the Zagros Mountains of central Iran. She will use the sheep skin to make a bag to hold traditional yogurt.  MODEL RELEASED.
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  • A worker on a tea plantation, near Kericho, Kenya, owned by Unilever. Workers live in company housing and make $3 to $9 US per day, depending on how much tea they pick. They are paid by the kilo. The young tea leaves  are picked every two weeks.
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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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