U.S. should go on diet of its own, India says

[nhboy]

"NEW DELHI: Instead of blaming India and other developing nations for the rise in food prices, Americans should rethink their energy policy and go on a diet, say a growing number of politicians, economists and academics here.

Criticism of the United States has ballooned in India recently, particularly after the administration of President George W. Bush seemed to blame India's increasing middle class and prosperity for rising food prices. Critics from India seem to be asking one underlying question: "Why do Americans think they deserve to eat more than Indians?"

The food problem has "clearly" been created by Americans, who are eating 50 percent more calories than the average person in India, said Pradeep Mehta, the secretary general of CUTS Center for International Trade, Economics and Environment, a private economic research organization based in India with offices in Kenya, Zambia, Vietnam and Britain."

U.S. should go on diet of its own, India says - International Herald Tribune

 

[morningbell]

"NEW DELHI: Instead of blaming India and other developing nations for the rise in food prices, Americans should rethink their energy policy and go on a diet, say a growing number of politicians, economists and academics here.

Criticism of the United States has ballooned in India recently, particularly after the administration of President George W. Bush seemed to blame India's increasing middle class and prosperity for rising food prices. Critics from India seem to be asking one underlying question: "Why do Americans think they deserve to eat more than Indians?"

The food problem has "clearly" been created by Americans, who are eating 50 percent more calories than the average person in India, said Pradeep Mehta, the secretary general of CUTS Center for International Trade, Economics and Environment, a private economic research organization based in India with offices in Kenya, Zambia, Vietnam and Britain."

U.S. should go on diet of its own, India says - International Herald Tribune

I concur!!!

Everyone should keep a garden, we should have community gardens even keep hens for eggs and rabbitts for meat.

 

[This_person]

Critics from India seem to be asking one underlying question: "Why do Americans think they deserve to eat more than Indians?"

Who said we deserve to eat more? I thought the complaint was pricing, not eating more. :shrug: