But mostly the prisoners have been starving themselves.
They are gaunt adults, wrists in chains, starving themselves inside Israeli prisons.
Another way of looking at it was that they were starving themselves to death.
"Classical musicians behave in the same way as young girls looking at fashion magazines and starving themselves," Ms. Lisitsa said.
About three dozen high school and university students have turned to starving themselves to raise the stakes on the government of President Sebastián Piñera.
The prisoners responded by draping themselves in blankets (they wouldn't wear prison clothes), smearing the walls with excrement and in ten cases starving themselves to death.
Just as troubling as the idea of adolescent girls' starving themselves thin, however, is evidence of society's growing acceptance of excessive calorie consumption.
The lady, Medea Benjamin of Code Pink, had begun shouting at him about the hundred and three prisoners who are starving themselves in a hunger strike at Guantánamo.
The need for such basic replenishment is even greater in Germany, where recent profit and productivity increases owe much to firms starving themselves of fresh capital spending.
With such pictures, this month's Vogue stands accused of provoking unknown numbers of young women into starving themselves to try to achieve extreme thinness.
Another recalls living quarters infused with the stench of faeces and daily self-harm: detainees cutting themselves, burning themselves, starving themselves, stitching their lips and eyelids shut.
