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To: arun gera who wrote (78062)	4/20/2008 4:22:21 PM
From: arun gera	Respond to of 116555

When you look at export stats for wheat and rice, US is to the export of wheat as Saudi Arabia is to oil exports. Thailand, US, and Vietnam are the big rice exporters. Brazil is a net importer of cereals. Japan is the biggest importer of cereals. China is a net importer. India is a net exporter of cereals (hardly any imports). fao.org -Arun

To: arun gera who wrote (78062)	4/20/2008 8:05:17 PM
From: RealMuLan	Respond to of 116555

Like a lot of other issues on this planet, developing countries and their people are always the scapegoats! As if Chinese, Indians and people from other developing nations are supposed to keep eating grain and grass forever in order to keep the people in developed countries feeding themselves on more and more meat (such as the Atkins low carb diet). How come NO one ever mentioned that how much extra demand for animal product resulted from the popularity of low carb diet in the U.S.? Many people in the US are too fat and they stop eating carbohydrates and mostly only meat and/or other animal products! I remembered some report last year said the grain consumption in the US in 2006 was down a couple of percentage points due to the popularity of low carb diet and meat only diet. And the US national Pasta association spent thousands of $ to make advertisement and claim pasta is healthy, blah, blah...