Global Food Crisis


Thank you Mr. Bush

Posted by: Poonam Mishra on May 8 2008  |  Comments  (2)


As they say… Better Late then Never…

 

So sorry for reacting on this a little late…

 

Wanted to thank Mr. Bush for approving my thinking…

 

I and mumma are fighting since long about my increasing waist, I always tell her that’s because of my improved diet, and she says it’s because of my increased TSH… Thyroids, the family history

 

I won at last as Mr. Bush himself approved my statement. Thank you Mr. Bush. Thank you so mush for being so concerned. Thank you so much for thinking about us. Thank you so much for quoting us in your talks.

 

Only one such great idiot and uneducated like you and Ms. Rice can talk in front of the whole world any thing like quoting someone’s diet without even looking at what we eat.

 

The very first time when I heard the statement, I wondered, OUR DIET IMPROVED?? Really… the unanswered question was… WHEN WE WERE EATING LESS???? Any clue Mr. Bush?

 

Do anyone in western countries tried looking the difference in the food plates of any other country in comparison to the one in India?

 

I would like to write something on our great history. Old history of entire world tells, everyone in the western countries in past was keen to get a way to visit India. Great Great America has been discovered BY CHANCE, while the ‘Get a way to go to India’ plan was in action (Please refer history books, if anyone doubt me). A total of 300 years old countryman is commenting on the diet of a nation who himself has seen various countries like America coming and going from the map of world. Lets again come back on our diet.

 

We as Indians do have a very rich culture of food. Do anywhere except India any one heard of something called ‘Chappan Bhog’ means 56 different food varieties in a single plate. Here I would like to quote please mind I am not talking about some very rich people or kings and queens, I am talking about an average Indian family.

 

We celebrate almost everyday with some or the other way, every celebration does have a series of food items associated with it, definitely which is very different from the food of other occasion.

 

I belong to a farmer family; everyone except my father is still a farmer in my parental family tree. Not to quote it for ‘Haaaa’ but on at average a normal farmer take around 10-15 breads (not the light weight ones) in one course of meal, and there are minimum of 3 meals a day they take, along with some little snacks in between (Little snacks could make the full day meal for lots of people).

 

Since I have seen my own family diet and the relative’s diet and I have heard the real stories of my grand parents and the other friends of mine do share the same past, we actually lost our appetite.

 

Our diet has not improved its rather decreased, we as normal people in India started eating less that what our last generation of eating, ask your parents and they will let you know the stories of there childhood and teenage that how much fat they use to consume in a single day, I doubt if we can consume in a week. We stared shouting for cholesterol, which our parents and their parents never did.

 

Not feeling like making this as a big blog, I can understand for Ms. Rice has a rich food culture of Africa, and Mr. Bush being the great harvesting history of America, their diet is improved, but I can see our diets being reduced by every passing day…

 

I am still seeking for an answer… WHEN DID WE EAT LESS???  Please let me know, if you have any clue…




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