according to Washington Post, Bush said that the Indian middle class "is now larger than our entire population," meaning the people of the United States. With growing prosperity, the increased demand for better nourishment will, "and thereby raise prices."
Caption: " No wonder we have at home in the U.S. food shortages -. These Indians eat too much " (Times of India)
Would not it be the U.S. President would think any reasonably educated person, this is the testimony of a less privileged morons, but maybe it's just for the poor. American (uneducated) people thought to distract from his own hunger-producing policy
In Western countries, he would have gotten away with this stupid remark probably 20minutes writes:.. "In India, however, the remark caused a storm of indignation. It was interpreted as a suggestion that the Indians were responsible for the worldwide rise in prices. "
" India exports more food than it imports. The claim that the prices rose because of a changed India is "completely misleading," said Manish Tewari, a spokesman for the ruling Congress party.
The newspaper "Times of India pointed out that the U.S. uses per capita five times more food than India and underlined this with a biting cartoon (see above).
For Devinder Sharma, an expert on food policy in New Delhi, Bush's remark "is a form of racism." It implies that one would have the right to an excess of food, the other does not. "If the Indians would eat as much as the Americans, the world food would "produce on the Moon, Sharma said the Washington Post.
infographics food crisis of 20 minutes.
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