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Default New York Times -- Excess consumption by Americans said to cause food shortages

Steve Pope > wrote:

> Pradeep S. Mehta, secretary general of the center for
> international trade, economics and the environment of
> CUTS International, an independent research institute
> based here, said that if Americans slimmed down to the
> weight of middle-class Indians, many hungry people in
> sub-Saharan Africa would find food on their plates.


**** 'em. If they want to come over here and dig through our
garbage for the scraps, then let them. Otherwise their food
problems are their own problems.

India has the richest and the poorest people on the planet. They
need to start criticizing their own and looking inward for somebody
to blame first. It's not like Americans haven't been responsible
for hundreds of billions of dollars being cycled throughout their
economy in the last few decades.

-sw