US Eats 5 Times More Than India Per Capita

The Times of India ^ | May 4, 2008 | By Subodh Varma

[JACKRUSSELL]

They always find a way to blame the U.S. for everything.

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[Need4Truth]

“voiced by the likes of US President George W Bush and secretary of state Condoleezza Rice — is that the Chinese and Indians are responsible”

sounds like propaganda to me. did they really say this?

[Fido969]

I thought by eating everything on my plate I was SAVING the poor people in India.

[AlbertWang]

1,000 kg per year is about 6 pounds per person, per day. No one eats that much grain, my horse might comr close.

The math that is the foundation of this story is just plain wrong.

[CPOSharky]

And the food production figures per capita of these countries is....?

And the food donated to starving countries figures per capita of these countries is....?

[The_Victor]

Even as the world spins into a global food crisis, a popular theory — voiced by the likes of US President George W Bush and secretary of state Condoleezza Rice — is that the Chinese and Indians are responsible.

Perhaps the author would care to support this statement with a quote.

[Onelifetogive]

Perhaps, it is time to include the lifestyle choices of the West in the whole feverish debate on how to tackle the global food crisis.

But we export HUGE amounts of food. They want us to produce the stuff, and send it ALL to them rather than send them our excess...

[Bernard]

But if you factor in the “undocumented” people in this country, that would lower the per capita consumption. Are the illegals here to eat the food that Americans don’t want to eat?

[Eurale]

The U.S. also consumes 10X more soap, shampoo and personal hygiene products.

[Neoliberalnot]

Oh, oh, I thought is was the ethanol. Having lived in the US all of my years, I rarely observed people here with more than an ounce of excess fat.

[The_Victor]

1,000 kg per year is about 6 pounds per person, per day. No one eats that much grain, my horse might comr close.

From the article:

Each Indian gets to eat about 178 kg of grain in a year, while a US citizen consumes 1,046 kg.

[Onelifetogive]

1,000 kg per year is about 6 pounds per person, per day.

It would not suprise me if it was right. You have to consider waste, alcohol production, and animal feed. I'm sure they took the total US consumption and divided by the number of people.

[Spouting Horn]

I don’t know if they said it, but if someone wants to put blame on the increasing cost of food, they need to look no further than the welfare for farmers and agribusiness(ethanol subsidies) that W wholeheartedly supports.

[The_Victor]

Sorry, I see you were converting from kg/yr to lbs/day without showing the math. I can't do arithmetic this early in the morning.

[TLI]

Perhaps, it is time to include the lifestyle choices of the West in the whole feverish debate on how to tackle the global food crisis.

Article is from "The Times of India." So, here comes the "evil fat lazy American" B.S. again. India has over a billion people. Perhaps, it is time to get their population under control instead of trying to breed their next door neighbor out of existence. Perhaps then they would have enough to eat. Perhaps if they then had enough to eat they could think straight and perhaps not write such pinheaded garbage as this article.

[xmission]

Bet we eat more beef too.

[angcat]

Now we can’t eat? We can’t drive? We can’t use electricity? Why don’t we go back to the dark ages so we can make everyone like us again.

[reagan_fanatic]

I work for every bite that I eat, thank-you. I don’t feel one bit guilty and I won’t be apologizing to anyone for it, either.

[dangus]

where the hell have Bush or Condi ever blamed India for eating too much food? I’m thinking that the Times of India is just the Times of London trying to miseduacte the third world into hating America.