The eye-opening new exhibit that explores what's on dinner tables around the world.

Check out the Calendar of Events to view upcoming Hungry Planet Events and Programs.

Through May 23, 2010
University of Minnesota Bell Museum of Natural History

The Bell Museum's "Hungry Planet: What the World Eats" exhibit combines mesmerizing photos with displays that explore issues of food in the 21st century - what people eat, how much it costs and where it comes from. Explore the rise of fast food, the evolution and history of food plants and the practice of raising and eating meat. Visitors can "shop" for global produce from world markets and track food as it travels from field to fork. Join us Thursday evenings through May 6 for a variety of food-related events - most free with museum admission - ranging from guided tours of the exhibit by experts, to films, to family events to discussion groups.

• Nearly 70 percent of food advertising is for convenience foods, candy and snacks, alcoholic beverages, soft drinks, and desserts, whereas just 2.2 percent is for vegetables, grains, fruits, or beans.

• Women provide almost half of the world's agricultural labor. Eighty percent of staple foods in sub-Saharan Africa and the Caribbean is provided by women. 90 percent of the work in Asia's rice paddies is performed by women.

• The U.S. food supply contains enough food to feed everyone in the country nearly twice over - even after exports are considered.

• The United States uses 17 TO 19 PERCENT OF OUR FOSSIL FUEL TO PRODUCE FOOD.

• In the United States in 1900, we spent 50 percent of our income on food. In 1980, we spent 15 percent of our income on food.

• It's projected that by 2030 we'll spend only 15 MINUTES A DAY COOKING.