CNN-IBN's special report on substandard wheat being imported from Australia has come as a shocker. Going by this, an Indian peasant is fit to eat what is edible for an animal in Australia.
Australia happily exports animal feed for human consumption, that too a country which 'protects' its people with very strict laws on food and imports. A country where a greeting card with a leaf extract from India did not reach the recipient precisely because the leaf originated in foreign shores. Imagine that in the 1956 Melbourne Olympics, equestrian events were held in distant Stockholm in Sweden, because foreign horses were not compatible with the country's strict quarantine laws.
This Australian hypocrisy fits in with the French attempt to dismantle the ship Clemenceau, riddled with toxic waste, at Alang in Gujarat. But then a developed country giver needs an underdeveloped/developing country taker too. It's worse that the Indian government is content equating the poor with cattle.
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