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

[Eddie Teach]

Feed the grain to cows and have steak?

[garbon]

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

If he's smart, he'll ask you to ship them to India then.

[Zanza]

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.

3000 a day are 1095000 per year. According to Wiki, about 26 890 000 children are born each year in India. So it's roughly one in 25 children dying from mulnutrition. 

[Neil]

India has problems that no other country has to deal with.

[PDH]

It would be easier to feed the kids if they were in silos or some sort of feedlot.

[CountDeMoney]

Sound to me like they need to get more MacDonalds.

They have enough temples over there.

[derspiess]

I always wonder about the Indians that own & run the Subway downtown near my office.  Dunno if they're Hindu or Muslim, but either way they're violating their beliefs since they serve me both ham and roast beef.

[Crazy_Ivan80]

It would be easier to feed the kids if they were in silos or some sort of feedlot.

where would you put the grain then while it's waiting to be stored in the children?

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pretty bad for the indian government. disgraceful even.

[Neil]

It's hard to feed India.  Even the British, the best government that the world has ever seen, had trouble with famines during the years of the Raj.

[Admiral Yi]

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.

[dps]

I always wonder about the Indians that own & run the Subway downtown near my office.  Dunno if they're Hindu or Muslim

They might not be either.

[Razgovory]

I always wonder about the Indians that own & run the Subway downtown near my office.  Dunno if they're Hindu or Muslim, but either way they're violating their beliefs since they serve me both ham and roast beef.

You know, the folks that run one of the Subway's in my town are Indian or Pakistanis.  Always go there, best service of all the subways in town.  They are quick!  I'm guessing those countries are just exporting all their best people.  Every person I've ever met from South Asia (and there are a surprisingly large number of them), has been polite, competent, and intelligent.  Well accept one who was a doctor I only saw once.

[Razgovory]

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.

Also, you should have your own house in order before you go around bothering other people.

[Faeelin]

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.

You donate to charity because you expect people to return the favor?

[derspiess]

I always wonder about the Indians that own & run the Subway downtown near my office.  Dunno if they're Hindu or Muslim

They might not be either.

True, but there's roughly a 94% chance of them being one of those two.