Remarks Come In The Wake Of US Prez Blaming India For Global Food Crisis One way to beat the worldwide grain shortage is for meateaters to turn vegetarian, and the movement should start with US president George Bush, the Indian affiliate of animal rights organization Peta has said. Jumping headlong into the controversy that began with Bush's misconstrued remarks about India's role in the rise of food prices worldwide, Peta India has written a letter to the US president, urging him to become a vegetarian and asking other compassionate Americans to follow his example. How will kicking wealthy countries' addiction to meat help feed starving people? Peta India's letter points out that the world is already growing enough crops to feed every human being, but food that could be used to nourish starving people is instead fed to billions of chicken, pigs, and cows which are slaughtered for their flesh. "In addition to being extremely cruel to animals, meat production is also staggeringly inefficient. It takes up to 16 pounds of grain to produce just one pound of meat,' says Peta. Peta, which stands for People for Ethical Treatment of Animals, also points out that although biofuel production is blamed for skyrocketing food prices worldwide, "humans' wasteful addiction to eating animal flesh is a far bigger culprit'. While 100 million tonnes of grain will be used to produce biofuel this year, "a staggering 760 million tons will be used to feed animals farmed who are destined for the dinner table', according to the organization. The India affiliate of the Virginia, US-based outfit said it has sent president Bush an easy-to-follow "Vegetarian Starter Kit' and a basket of tasty vegan foods "to help him embark on a healthy new diet'. "Eating meat