Somebody should feed George Bush a morsel of plain rice with red chilli powder. This should act as a substitute for his ordinary diet of beef, pork, potato chips, beacon, bread and numerous sauces. He should know that 200 million people in India still have that as their staple food and 200 million more are forced to remain hungry. He dare accuse us of eating a lot of calories while he sits in the Oval Office, away from the reality in the average Indian household.
TOI reported;
An average American consumes 1012 Kg of food in a year.
An Average Indian; merely 172 Kg in a year.
More than a third of the world’s poor live in India and 40% of our population lives below the internationally recognised poverty benchmark of 1$ a day. If we are eating a little more food on an average, then more than the growing middle class and their tastes; its to stop the starvation deaths, farmer suicides and people from going hungry everyday.
I was reading Gurcharan Das’s India unbound where he wrote that the poor seem to be at the forefront of every economic policy, election manifesto in India; but they just don’t seem to be coming up and being uplifted. Other than on paper, the poor in our country just don’t seem to matter; neither to the Indian bureaucrats or George W Bush. We all live such shallow, superficial lives that we seem to ignore the existence of those few who should matter. And there are times when we must care.
If the above picture is the cause of inflation and the world food shortage, then its good. Because in India, below is how most of the people generally live;
So I think George Bush should retract his statement and P Chidambaram shouldn’t Tact worse and attribute it to the use of bio-fuels. There is a limit to stupidity and both of them are crossing it.
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Agree with you mads.
Please read Bush’s statement he didnt say an indian is eating more he said indians are. That means people are being uplifted to middle class thereby having the luxury to consume more food. He is trying to justify the increase in the grain prices to demand thats it.
Also an american doesnt consume 10 times more food than an indian does. What they consume is meat which needs 10 to 20 times the grains ot produce.
Hopefully people will understand the facts before crying wolf on an american president on a statement that is not really important
Why don’t we just feed the World and forget ourselves and our family. Kenya needs the food more than we do, Obama will give them money and food. I don’t understand why Obama didn’t try for leadership over there where he could help them, or is it that he will have control of The United States aid around the World?