As India's kids starve, $1.5 billion worth of grain rots

[Eddie Teach]

Bah, I just out-Jewed guller. 

[Martinus]

Tim, why is this worse than American grain rotting while Indian kids starve?

Presumably because it is in India, not America, and the Indian government should be helping feed Indian kids with India grain.  The American grain is rotting in silos in America, which is not a train ride away, and the American Government is not necessarily responsible for feeding American Grain to Indian Kids, if the Indian Government is not concerned with it.

You realize that India is called a sub-continent for a reason, right? It's fucking huge. It's like complaining there is so much snow in North Canada and people in New Mexico die of heat.

[Martinus]

This is an Indian problem that is within India's capability to solve.

How the fuck do you know that? Are you that familiar with their transport infrastructure that you are certain they are capable of having the grain loaded on trains, then unloaded and distributed to people on the entire sub-continent before it goes bad?

[Martinus]

I hate these kinds of articles.  Yes, 3,000 children die every day from malnutrition, but how many children do not die?  Context is everything.

Apparently, the Indian population goes up by app. 42,000 people each day (not just births but a difference between births and deaths).

http://www.medindia.net/patients/calculators/pop_clock.asp

[Martinus]

I'm showing this thread to my kid when he won't eat his green beans tonight.

So that he grows up with a IQ high enough not to be a cretin like Tim, right?

[Martinus]

Why should you care less that children are starving because they were born in a different country?

Because starving Americans will have a higher likelihood of returning the favor after they're fed.

Fucking pervert. You disgust me. 

[Grey Fox]

This is an Indian problem that is within India's capability to solve.

How the fuck do you know that? Are you that familiar with their transport infrastructure that you are certain they are capable of having the grain loaded on trains, then unloaded and distributed to people on the entire sub-continent before it goes bad?

Because if they don't have one they have the capability to build one.

Stop aiming at Tim & go back to trolling all of us.

[jimmy olsen]

This is an Indian problem that is within India's capability to solve.

How the fuck do you know that? Are you that familiar with their transport infrastructure that you are certain they are capable of having the grain loaded on trains, then unloaded and distributed to people on the entire sub-continent before it goes bad?

Because if they don't have one they have the capability to build one.

Yup, India definitely has the economic resources to build the rail capacity to do that if they so wish.

[Darth Wagtaros]

Tim, why is this worse than American grain rotting while Indian kids starve?

Presumably because it is in India, not America, and the Indian government should be helping feed Indian kids with India grain.  The American grain is rotting in silos in America, which is not a train ride away, and the American Government is not necessarily responsible for feeding American Grain to Indian Kids, if the Indian Government is not concerned with it.

You realize that India is called a sub-continent for a reason, right? It's fucking huge. It's like complaining there is so much snow in North Canada and people in New Mexico die of heat.

I am aware.  That was not the question though.