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Hissyspit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-28-11 05:51 AM
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Food Riots in India as Prices Soar
Source: Al Jazeera

Food riots in India as prices soar

Anger brews as soaring staple foods and inflation hit millions who can no longer afford to pay for basic commodities.
Last Modified: 28 Feb 2011 10:11 GMT

Pranab Mukherjee, India's Finance Minister has presented his annual budget, acknowledging that food inflation was still a major concern for the world's second most populous country in the world.

On Monday, Mukherjee announced a food security bill for 2011 - 2012, a measure that would provide cheap grains for millions of India's poor.

However, the announcement has sparked worries of a huge fiscal cost.

In a pilot program, the minister said some subsidies for food and fuel would be directly given as cash to customers starting in March 2011.

Read more: http://english.aljazeera.net/video/asia/2011/02/201122891532942668.html
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fasttense Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-28-11 08:18 AM
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1. So if you can't afford to pay for basic food...
Edited on Mon Feb-28-11 08:20 AM by fasttense
"Inflation hit millions who can no longer afford to pay for basic commodities."

I guess millions are going hungry. But don't worry the American corporate aristocracy is eating well.

But wait, wasn't globalization, moving our jobs to India suppose to help the Indian people? They got call center jobs and programming jobs, so why are they going hungry?

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Robbien Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-28-11 09:56 AM
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3. India used to produce more of its own food

Now that some farmland has been converted into factories, more imported goods are needed. Globalization is a bitch.
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WatsonT Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-28-11 10:07 AM
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4. The food corporation of india (FCI)
is supposed to procure food stores that can be doled out to prevent this kind of hunger.

However they often don't do a very good job of it.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7489816.stm
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timo Donating Member (890 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-28-11 08:51 AM
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2. is this where we are headed?
maybe I should have planted a larger garden this year??
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phantom power Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-28-11 10:15 AM
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6. We're in the caboose of this train wreck.
I wouldn't worry over much about this year, but it wouldn't hurt to consider some kind of plan for living off your garden, to whatever extent possible, sometime in the future.
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timo Donating Member (890 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-28-11 12:27 PM
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8. not a prob,
I am in the nursery tree farm business, and raise our own chickens :)
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defendandprotect Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-28-11 10:45 PM
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12. Definitely -- was at a big farm-like store yesterday -- poor weather has left
them with limited supplies --

Still food, of course -- but lots of stuff missing!!
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WatsonT Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-28-11 10:10 AM
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5. High global food prices will cause a lot of changes
we're already seeing them in the middle east.

Hopefully the democratic nations will weather this storm better than the autocratic nations.

It's cold blooded but perhaps flooding the market with cheap food to wipe out local farmers then suddenly contracting that market creating artificial famines would lead to a better world via overthrowing despots.

In many of these countries it couldn't make matters any worse.
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Crowman1979 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-28-11 11:20 AM
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7. Religious persecution of family planning programs is to blame as well.
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defendandprotect Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-28-11 10:48 PM
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13. Absolutely -- religion is a main tool of patriarchy -- religious landmines still going off --
Edited on Mon Feb-28-11 10:50 PM by defendandprotect
Right wing is underpinned by organized patriarchal religion which has done

such great harm to humanity!!

And is still doing great harm!!
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roamer65 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-28-11 09:52 PM
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9. China has a major drought in its wheat producing region.
Wheat is cheap right now, but it soon won't be...
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Lasher Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-28-11 10:32 PM
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10. Bet they won't buy any from the US.
They like for us to keep going deeper in debt.
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defendandprotect Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-28-11 10:44 PM
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11. UN HUMAN RIGHTS MANIFESTO ... food,shelter, clothing, medical care ....
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Turborama Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-28-11 10:55 PM
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14. I'm confused, can't find any mention of "food riots" in the article. "Food rotting", but not riots.
Edited on Mon Feb-28-11 10:57 PM by Turborama
:shrug:

I rec'd because it is an interesting story worth reading and watching, though.
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