US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has kicked up a controversy with her comment that the "growing Indian and Chinese appetite is contributing to the global food crisis".
Left parties are calling the remark atrocious and the Indian Government says it's a wrong assessment.
According to Planning Commission Deputy Chairman, Montek Singh Alhuwalia, "I don't agree that there is a global food crisis because of India and China. There is an increase in food production too in both the countries."
"The increase in production and use of biofuels might be the cause why cultivable area is limited," he added.
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Anonymous2008-05-04 3:28
Yeah, blame biofuels and maybe the oil companies will help us out.
By blithely blaming biofuels, Bush bucks burdening Bhopal.
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Anonymous2008-05-04 6:05
ricers
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Anonymous2008-05-04 21:49
rice rice baby
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Anonymous2008-05-04 22:31
Fucking rice eaters. They need to go on a diet and let us have more cheap food.
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Anonymous2008-05-04 22:31
OVERPOPULATION WILL NEVER HAPPEN
IT'S NOT LIKE MOST OF HUMAN HISTORY WAS IN A STATE OF OVERPOPULATION AND DROUGHTS LED TO FAMINE BEFORE TECHNOLOGY IMPROVEMENT OUTPACED POPULATION GROWTH
house of card. i'll be lolling (and starvin) when we run out of gas and all the farms stop working
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Anonymous2008-05-04 23:03
Somewhere in a grave in Europe, Malthus is laughing at each and every one of us.
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Anonymous2008-05-04 23:08
>>11
You should hear how hard social liberals start whining about Malthus whenever overpopulation is even barely mentionned. They repeat Karl Marx's criticism of malthus word for word yet claim they never read any of his work and aren't associated with marxism and do not believe social democracy is just a stepping stone to communism.
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Anonymous2008-05-05 10:30
>>12
You were almost doing good until you revealed your ignorance with
>social democracy is just a stepping stone to communism.
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Anonymous2008-05-05 11:05
>>12
Also, I should add, apparently anything said by marx is BAWW EVIL JEWISH KOMMUNIST KONSPIRACY DON'T LISTEN TO IT, even if it is a formal disproval, because clearly, who judges things by facts- judge them by the people who said it! More fun comes from strawman crying about "dem soshal libralz" and not knowing the difference between socialism and social democracy.
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Anonymous2008-05-05 11:47
Diesel fuel is to blame. Fucking econofags starving chinks.