The blame game

US President George Bush has joined his top diplomat Condoleezza Rice in suggesting that the growing prosperity of India's large middle class is contributing to rising food prices around the world (More in Economic Times).

While RediffNews quotes FAO's data to blame US for the global food crisis.

Indian blogger Aparna Ray coins her protest in a limerick:

"Prez George Bush, it has come to pass,
Has laid blame on our Middle Class.
It seems we have hurled,
The rest of the world,
Into crisis by not chewing grass!
"