Comments on Being Cynical: Hungry India

As I Say this there is some more disturbing stats ...

2012-01-17T09:59:14.929+05:30

As I Say this there is some more disturbing stats - Approximately 13 Lakhs of our kids die before celebrating their 1st birthday....

sometimesbullsometimesbear Since the food inflatio...

2012-01-16T13:19:40.646+05:30

sometimesbullsometimesbear Since the food inflation is lowest in last two years, the proposed cost of food security bill would reduce considerably. As anyway, the money spend on it is of the Tax payer's, not from the pockets of our cunning politicians.

@ Sam A goat eats a ton of plant material in its l...

2012-01-16T12:18:06.768+05:30

@ Sam
A goat eats a ton of plant material in its lifetime.

A goat can be eaten by nly 40 people for a day

A ton of plant material is sufficient to feed 40 people for 40 days even after subtracting all the plant waste.

See the maths there?

Nonveg food is fine for ppl who live where no plants can grow, eg Siberia, Greenland etc. Otherwise it is just a food fad for the taste buds.

@Cynical

Both MMS and Sarad refused to distribute the foodgrains to the poor. But now we have the Food security bill which claims to do just that at a stupendous cost. Look at the hypocrisy here. They want to take the credit for every damn thing.

Sam although I would beg to differ with you on the...

2012-01-16T11:56:40.207+05:30

Sam although I would beg to differ with you on the nutrition aspects of veg food, I would not go into those facts. But financially it is very expensive to consume non veg food in India. The reason is we have not still industrialized our meat productions the scale of any western country or even some of our neighbours. Also Indians are a set of people who eat their food for taste rather than for the nutrition on it, even the so called non veg food eat has more fat in it rather than the Meat's nutrition.

@Sam What you are saying might be medically right ...

2012-01-16T11:33:51.713+05:30

@Sam What you are saying might be medically right but with all honesty, just the lack of non-vegetarian food habit can't make third of the population of any nation go nutrition less. For God's sake it is more than fifth of our own people who go to bed empty stomach.

Lack of food to eat is the culprit, not we preferring veggies over some Tangdi Kebab.

I am here not to negate the observation but do con...

2012-01-16T11:25:41.725+05:30

I am here not to negate the observation but do consider the fact that food that Indians eat is nutrient defecit. You will find majority of Indians anaemic that has a lot to do with the vegetarian diet. Lot of Indians have protein and vitamin defeciency reason is the vegetarian diet not that they cant afford food. Another reason is most of indians are not concious about what a nutritious diet is. Result is they eat without satisfyling the mineral and vitamin needs of body.