Is there a shortage of food?

Is there a shortage of food or is there a surplus of food? My understanding is that if food is defined as nutrients for the body, then there are plenty of nutrients in this planet. However, as human beings, we are selective of the nutrients we consume. Our taste buds have a bias; and based on this bias, we select our foods. We often select the foods the way our parents have raised us. To a certain extent our parents mold our taste buds. We have to break this parent-child dictatorship as regards to the food we consume. It would be difficult to change the eating habits of adults. However, we have to plan for the future. Our children are the future. The public school system can help to break parent-child dictatorship as regards to the food we consume. There are schools in India that give food to the children. May I suggest that an attempt be made to mold the taste buds of our children. We have to use political power to mold the taste buds of our children. The children in schools should be given not what the adults eat, but what the adults generally do not eat. The children in schools should be given not what the parents eat, but what the parents generally do not eat. We want our children to eat both Eastern and Western foods. We want our children to eat fusion foods. We want our children to be trained at an early age to eat different kinds of foods. We want to survive in this planet. We want to co-exist in this planet. We want to use food to bring the human beings together.

How about energy bars and nutrition bars? If you want to find out more about nutrition bars, then please do go to www.google.com and type the words NUTRITION BARS. We should use the public schools to train our children to eat, at least once in a way, nutrition and energy bars. I know some Indians who would not be satisfied until they eat rice; and these Indians have taste buds which tell them that only rice is food. Pardon me. There are 6.5 billion people in this world and not all of them eat rice; and some of them are happy not to eat rice. I know some Indians who would not be satisfied until they have a chair and table to eat curry stew on rice with their fingers; and these Indians feel that life would be incomplete without curry stew on rice. The reality is that there are different kinds of foods besides curry stew and rice. There are many different kinds of foods and many different kinds of nutrients. Some times, if you are in a hurry, then you may have to eat while standing up. Some times if you are in a hurry, then you have to eat a nutrition bar. I am an adult and I know that my eating habits are hard to change: my beloved mother may have molded my taste buds a little too much. I am hoping that the next generation of Indians would be different.

Also, the importance of sports cannot be underestimated. Even the late Swami Vivekananda was in favor of us engaging in physical development. In the Hindu context, physical improvement is simply another way to achieve yoga/union.

Our children are the future. Therefore we have to make sure that India has a good public school system. It is important that we separate teachers from exams. One day the children of India will turn India into a developed nation.

If India is looking for role models for work ethics, then India does not have to look far. I would recommend that India rely on the military people as the role model. The armed forces have served as the role model for management techniques to the private sector all over the world. Further more, as domestic competition inside India increases, there would be changes in India’s work ethics.

Economic growth alone is not enough. We have to keep social problems at a minimum. In this respect, allow me to commend Indians for keeping arranged marriages popular. Arranged marriages may have helped to reduce some social problems that have plagued some other nations.

A closer relationship between India and Japan will also help. Japan is the first Asian nation to achieve developed nation status. India has been through Western colonial occupation. She obtained her independence in 1947. A closer relationship between India and Japan may help to re-Asianize the Asians. We have to ensure that this century would be the Asian century. With a population of 127 million and100% literacy rate, Japan is no nation for Indians to ignore. India is a non-aligned movement nation. Japan is a developed nation, while India is a developing nation. It is unlikely that Japan would grow as fast as she did in the 1950's and 1960's. This is year 2007 and now it is India's turn to grow. It would be naive of Japan if she did not take advantage of India's growth potential. The onus is on Japan to find her niche in India. A closer relationship between Japan and India would be mutually beneficial. Both are Asian nations. My personal experience tells me that Japanese and Indians would have few problems working together. I dare say that I have not known of a people who have reverence for work as the Japanese do.


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Always love your mother.*Be altruistic.*Always buy packaged goods with the name of the producer on the package*Always buy from supermarkets and chain stores*Support teamwork, team spirit, and team based problem solving.* Learn Judo, Karate, Aikido, Jujitsu. Tai Chi, Yoga and walk for fitness.* Yoga is about the chakras, and achieving self-mastery and samadhi and achieving full 100% Godhood. *All 6.5 billion of us can return to full 100% Godhood* I would recommend that the best preparation for our youth would be the military experience. Yes, an experience in the military service would do our youth some good. You should have a life of duty. Your duty to yourself. Your duty as a husband. Your duty as a wife. Your duty as a parent. Your duty as an employee. Your duty as an employer. Your duty as a taxpayer. Your duty as a voter. Your duty as a teacher. Your duty as a student and so on. * Engage in sports and exercise.* Be a profit-maker.* Do not give away goods, services, or ideas free of charge; and do not take goods, services, or ideas free of charge.* Self-defense is an inviolable human right.* Always use condoms* All 6.5 billion of us Gods are both buyers and sellers; but at any given time you are either a buyer or seller* All 6.5 billion of us are Gods and can return to full 100% Godhood through self-improvement*One way to engage in self-improvement is to try to never to repeat your mistakes*Your divine powers within you are your natural powers within you*An economy is composed of areas of surpluses and areas of shortages; when there is a surplus it is time to move to an area of shortage; ideally there would be no shortages and rationing in this world*