>Doug asks:
>
>> Isn't there something political about Americans
>> eating too much when about 2 billion people don't
>> have enough to eat?
>
>Only if you think that those 2B people don't have enough to eat BECAUSE
>"Americans eat too much" ... which is kind of a stretch, don't you
>think? To me, this sort of sounds like "It rained yesterday when Joey
>was wearing blue pants." ...
>
>That is: if Americans ate less, would the 2B number go up or down?
It's related to the fact that we use far too much of the world's resources - oil, clean air, food, you name it.
Doug