Indian are the not responsible for the high commodity prices

Recently American President George Bush blamed emerging economies like India and China for rising commodity prices around the world. I would say American are itself are the reason for the high food prices around the world. Americans are the largest consumer of meat around the world it is estimated that an average american eat 125kg of meat every year, and if we total figure comes to 35,000,000 tonnes meat every year. An average Chinese eat 70kg meat every year. Thing I want to highligh here is that animals are poor converter of energy for e.g. a cow takes 16kg of food grains to convert 1kg of meat and over 70% of the foodgrains produced in America is consumed by the cows and pigs for producing meat.

Meat is also an inefficient energy provider. would you believe that a beef eater needs more energy walking 1 kilometre than a car. and example would prove this point. The beef eater would spend 70kcal in wlaking 1 km . letus say he gets this energy back by eating a piece of beef containing 70 kcal. The beef-cow would have eaten foodgrains contining 1120 kcal to produce this piece of beef. The meat supply chain further necessiate chilled storage during transportation,warehousing, retainling and at beef-eater's domestic refrigerator tatalling 2240kcal. what quantiy of petrol would contain 2240 kcal. ? 70ml of petrol! And a car would go more that 1km.

Present Indian consumption is 3kg percaptia per year and all indian put together consume 3million tonnes of meat every year. presently indian cow feed on grass and pigs on garbage. Imaging if 70% of Indian foodgrains go feeding animals producing meat.

we Can't forget water, 10,000 litres of water is needed to produce 1kg of beef. where is water to produce million tonnes of meat. There is also a problem of disposing million tonnes of animal waste. So picture is clear in front is who is causing or reason for global food prices. why to blame ethanol?