India's angry reaction to President George Bush's suggestion that its middle class was pushing food prices by demanding better food is bringing home the realisation that the blame lies at America's own door.
"We Americans are gluttons for energy, as well as for food," noted Dallas Morning News in an editorial Tuesday drawing attention not only to the Americans' huge intake, but also to enormous amounts of food that they waste.
"Given that two-thirds of Americans are overweight, we should have the good manners not to complain about high food prices with our mouths full," it said in an edit piece Monday titled "US a food wasteland".