Comparison between two food insecurity articles

·         The Bias

o   The “Hindu” is against the government

o   The “Guardian” is for the government

o   Both papers are liberal views

o   The author of the “Hindu” is a professor in food insecurity and global environmental change

o   The author of the “Guardian” is a campaign manager of an NGO called 'Oxfam'

·         What is written – deeper meaning

o   “The most persuasive argument to the court is that the right to food is directly related to the constitutional guarantee of the right to life”

In this quote found in the 'Guardian' article is presenting a deeper meaning explaining that the right to food is a right to life, which human has a right to.

o   “Rather than using the abundance of grain as an opportunity to raise consumption among the people, the government has declared its intention to sell its stocks in foreign markets at subsidized prices"

 This quote found in the 'Hindu' presents to the readers that problem is that even though India has the opportunity to distribute food equally among the people, they chose to do the opposite and sell the stock to international markets for the same price.

·         Purpose

o   Informative or Persuasive

 “This stock is enough to provide 70kg a person, that is, about one-half an individual’s annual cereal requirement, to more than 600 million people.” The "Hindu" article is an informative, giving statistical and factual information.

·         Contention

o   “Rather than using the abundance of grain as an opportunity to raise consumption among the people, the government has declared its intention to sell its stocks in foreign markets at subsidized prices. Foreign buyers of Indian rice and wheat will only have to pay the rates charged to "below-poverty-line" (BPL) consumers in India.” This quote sums up the contention of the 'Hindu' article.

o   “If food security is about having certainty about the future, the common goal must also be growth in agriculture and food security that gives the same rights on the land to men and women farmers.” This quote sums up the contention of the 'Guardian' article

·         Differences

o   One blaming (Hindu), other trying to find solutions to the problem (Guardian)

o   The 'Guardian' was opinionated and the 'Hindu' was factual and statistical