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May 06, 2008 09:09 IST

The White House has sought to clarify President George W Bush's remarks

blaming India <http://www.rediff.com/news/2008/may/03food.htm> for the surge

in global food prices, which evoked wide protest from politicians in India.

 

" We think it is a good thing that countries are developing, that more and

more people have higher and higher standards of living, " Deputy White House

Press Secretary Scott Stanzel said in reply to a question in Washington on

Monday.

 

Bush, in his speech, had said there were 350 million people in India who

were classified as the middle class. " That's bigger than America. Their

middle class is larger than our entire population. And when you start

getting wealth, you start demanding better nutrition and better food, and so

demand is high, and that causes the price to go up, " he had said.

 

The White House official said, " The point I think is that as you increase

your standard of living, the food that you eat can venture more into meats

that require more commodities to feed the livestock, which uses more of

those commodities, whether it's corn or wheat or other commodities, and it

drives up the price. So, that is just a function of how those food prices

that we have seen spike around the world. "

 

Referring to the criticism that the US diversion of food grain to bio-fuels

led to the price-hike, Stanzel said: " over the last year, food prices have

increased about 43 per cent around the world. Of that portion, about 1.5 per

cent of that is due to an increase in bio-fuel production. The other

majority, vast majority of that, is due to things like increased demand,

like you were talking about, or increased energy prices, or weather-related

problems in Australia or in Eastern Europe -- problems with wheat

production, as an example -- that's driving up the price of those

commodities. "

 

 

 

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