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So the time has arrived at last when we are talking of hunger, we are talking of basic food necessities like two ends meal. Since childhood we had been said that those days are gone where generations were lost due to famine, people shifted to cities for food and died there like insects. We read about the famous Bengal famine of 1776 where the majority of the population of south Bengal were wiped out due to scarcity of food. I think few readers know the fact that this famine also inspired famous writer Bankimchandra Chatterjee to write ‘Anandamath’. We again get reminiscent of the classic flick made by Satyajit Ray about the famine of 1942 which also affected the then Bengali generation badly. The whole Calcutta was painfully haunted by the horrifying scenes of stick like mother-child figures roaming around door to door and begging with the words ‘Fan(the water remained after cooking rice) dao’ . So many days streets had witnessed their corpses piled up on them and Vultures and crows greedily took out fleshes from their bodies. Amartya Sen famously researched on this famine and concluded that people don’t die as there is no food but because they don’t have money to buy them.
Well we are the post-generation of green revolution; we just can’t imagine such dreaded scene in front of our eyes. But this is painfully true we are forced to talk about the new world of hunger these days.
Now the specter of world hunger is looming, with sharply rising basic food prices and unnecessary food shortages sparking food riots in places like Haiti and Egypt. Officials with the U.N.’s World Food Program (WFP) are alarmed. The WFP has put out an emergency appeal for more funds, saying another 100 million humans have been thrown into the desperate hunger pits.
Well first it was US secretary of states Condoleezza Rice and then the most unpopular US president ever George Bush attacked the appetite of Indian Middle Class with the words” There are 350 million people in India classified as middle class ..When you start getting wealth, you demand better nutrition , that causes prices to go up”. Wow! What an observation by an American President. Probably he also doesn’t know that 70% of the total Indian Population live on 1$ per day which is even lower than the poor nations like Haiti where food riots continued for 7 days. But lets take account of the US president role in solving the issues rather than putting charges on the developing nations.
Directly under Bush and the Congress is the authority to reduce the biggest single factor boosting food prices—reversing the tax-subsidized policy of growing ever more corn to turn into fuel at the expense of huge acreages that used to produce wheat, soy, rice and other edibles.
Corn ethanol is a multifaceted monstrosity—radiating damage in all directions of the compass. Reducing acreage for edible crops has sparked a surge in the price of bread and other foodstuffs. Congress and Bush continue to mandate larger amounts of subsidized corn ethanol.
Republican Representative Robert W. Goodlatte says: “The mandate basically says [corn] ethanol comes ahead of food on your table, comes ahead of feed for livestock, comes ahead of grains available for export.”
So Mr. Bush first you decide should we change our diet and instead of chapattis or daal chawal we should have ethanol prescribed by you?
