Posted on 05/04/2008 5:45:50 AM PDT by JACKRUSSELL
Hah!
Maybe they will force my diet!!
And the Times of India (the target of my derision in my comment) is trying to inflame academe and the power brokers in India against America.
Typical Leftist crap that will eventually harm the Indian people.
They would have more food if they wouldn’t worship it. I don’t feel too sorry for them at all.
Both bourbon and burgers are on my food pyramid. I would be remiss to the hard-working statisticians who made the chart not to consume some quantities of both. Thus, I am an employer of people who gather numbers and tell us what they mean
Plus when I go shopping, I grab a case of beer first. On top of that is stacked the bourbon, burgers, potato chips, chocolate fudge (for the females) and cigars. It’s all carried to the SUV without the use of either plastic or paper bags. Thus, I am an environmentalist, too.
My contribution to society is hereby publicly noted. If Chicoms and Indians want to consume rice and pork, that’s their business. Save me a drumstick, please.
I do my part as an American. The world is complete, balanced and spinning around. All is well.
Yes. That’s what newspapers do. Screaming headlines get them more coverage.
Leftist capitalism, perhaps?
Nobody is asking you to, either.
India is not begging anyone for food; they grow enough for their own, and for export.
Why don’t they just admit the are a Third World country?
“The math that is the foundation of this story is just plain wrong.”
Oh, it’s worse than that.
I added it all up:
Wheat, Milk, Oils, Beef, Chicken, Pork in the proportions they claim are per-capita consumption in the US - then compared it against a calorie-counter.
Your mileage may vary, but this works out to 12,402 calories per day per person.
Now, I know I could stand to lose a few pounds but this is ridiculous!
When the article mentions “consumes” I doubt the consumption is as food alone.
They’ve probably just divided annual output of each food, by the population to get a crude per-capita figure.
Saw a high school class out on a field trip waddling down the sidewalk toward the Univ yesterday. They’ll need pickup trucks for graduation gifts so they can transport their bulks around to visit each other.
I guess their caste system still isn’t working, this is just a bunch of BS.
Americans actually consume LESS grain than Indians.
http://www.ers.usda.gov/publications/err50/err50.pdf
From the report: 6.3 oz of TOTAL grain (refined + unrefined) per day is consumed by the average American.
2299.5 oz / year
2299.5 oz = 65.2 kg
Does that mean we’re five times bigger?
bump for later B.S. read
I agree...I thought when I saw the 1,000 kg per year number, that seemed high.
Two words: Loose money. The US is exporting its inflation through flooding the world with money. Commodities priced in dollars are therefore considerably more expensive. Simple answer to a simple question.
The problem isn’t the lack of food, it is the lack of freedom and capitalism.
We're not eating all that food. We're putting it into our gas tanks.
Why Indians all look like skeletons. There is not enough food to go around at any price. American just bitch about the price. Wait until we deliver all our food to India and China.
Mark
hmmm.... It's almost lunch time... I wonder what I'm going to have... Maybe I'll go to the Indian buffet and have 5 helpings of something!
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