world leaders 18-course banquet - discuss how to solve global food crisis

[katty]

more:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1032909/Summit-thats-hard-swallow--world-leaders-enjoy-18-course-banquet-discuss-solve-global-food-crisis.html

Summit that's hard to swallow - world leaders enjoy 18-course banquet as they discuss how to solve global food crisis
By James Chapman
Last updated at 12:27 AM on 08th July 2008

Comments (26) Add to My Stories


Just two days ago, Gordon Brown was urging us all to stop wasting food and combat rising prices and a global shortage of provisions.

But yesterday the Prime Minister and other world leaders sat down to an 18-course gastronomic extravaganza at a G8 summit in Japan, which is focusing on the food crisis.

The dinner, and a six-course lunch, at the summit of leading industrialised nations on the island of Hokkaido, included delicacies such as caviar, milkfed lamb, sea urchin and tuna, with champagne and wines flown in from Europe and the U.S.

[Crazy Dave]

1. "Let them eat cake"

We all know how that story ended.

[Dreamer Tatum]

2. Plus they all had to get themselves and the food there

...all on private jets, I'm sure.

Assholes should have been given bowls of rice with a few scallions, like 80% of the world gets.

[Greyskye]

3. What word is it that comes to mind....?

Oh, yeah, that's right.

[ben_meyers]

4. Sounds like when 10,000 people flew to Bali

for a Global warming summit. I don't remember them eating porridge either. Don't do what I do, do as I say.