World's Current Food Crisis

From last couple of months rising inflation is a buzzword across the world. Everyone is talking about it. In Indian perspective all the political parties are playing a nice blame game with each other. Of' course they are champion of this game. But none of them are really serious in finding what is the root cause of the problem and what is the short/long term solution of the problem.

They all are blaming each other just to capitalize the issue to increase there vote bank. If we ask the current market price of some basic food grains to these politicians, I am sure hardly anyone will be able to speak about it.

Anyways, the major issue here is the way so called "developed" countries are behaving and commenting about the issue. Last week Condoleezza Rice, secretary of state US make the statement that improved diets in India and China is one of the major cause of current rise in food prices. Recently Bush also has joined the talk and make the remarks that rising prosperity in eating habits in India and China has caused this price rise.

I believe Bush's comments not only shows his attitude toward Asian Giants but also shows his lack of knowledge about current affairs. He said that 350 million middle class people in India is asking for better nutrition and better food due to increase in purchase power. This population of middle class in India in incidentally bigger than the whole America's population, he confirmed. I think US is certainly under pressure and doesn't know how to respond to the situation where Asian countries are challenging them.

But the various report shows that the per person consumption of food in US is more than 5 times in India. From African countries this is surely incomparable. The per person consumption in US has been increased since 2003, on the other hands it is more or less stable in India. Moreover, the decision of diversion of arable land for ethanol production is also questionable. Let me remind you Mr. Bush that we are a food exporter not a food importer.

This whole chapter shows the ignorant behaviour of US president. They have to first see their own way of living and then go and comment about others. I seriously don't know why these US people go and comment without there proper knowledge of history, geography and of' course world's current situation.