Hunger talks start with lobster and foie gras

The Times (U.K.) ^ | 06/11/2002 | Richard Owen

[Pokey78]

So very typical.

Please pass the foie gras!

[Pokey78]

Ping

[dighton]

Let these shameless pigs die of food-poisoning.

[buffyt]

Makes NO sense at all! They could have better spent that money on the hungry! duh....

[3catsanadog]

The absence of Western leaders was “an indication of the political priority some people give to the tragedy of hunger”, MDiouf reflected. FAO officials say that 800 million people are starving, and something must be done.

Oooookaaaaay Mom, I'll eat my vegetables!

[Fzob]

FAO officials say that 800 million people are starving, and something must be done.

800 million is roughly 13 percent of the worlds population. My guess is the number is nonsense.

[neutrino]

How funny. The delegation leaders care as much about world hunger as I do. (Smirk)

[Sub-Driver]

say's it all.......US tax dollars involved?

[Humidston]

Mr Mbeki said that Africa was faced with a “real threat of famine” because of “civil strife, migration, natural disasters, and unfair trade practices” corrupt, greedy, unethical leaders.

[Pokey78]

Being that's it's a UN thing, yep.

World Food Summit: five years later

[altair]

They acknowledge that many Third World regimes are corrupt and that maladministration and dictatorship are as much responsible for economic backwardness and malnutrition as drought and natural disasters.

That says it all. Fix your governments first. Aid to Zimbabwe, which was a food exporter until recently, makes no sense whatsoever with Robert Mugabe running the country.

[Paul Atreides]

I'm ashamed of all of you! Don't you know these people are more caring than you or me? Sure, nothing will be accomplished but, doesn't the fact that they get together and say "there are people in the world who are starving" mean something? Surely, you don't expect them to get their god-like fingers dirty, milling about with such grubby people. And, surely, you don't expect them to get together and not stuff their ignorant gobs with just plain old food!!

[IronJack]

Mr Annan said. “We must give renewed hope to the world’s 800 million starving people through concrete action.”

"... which includes blaming the United States for starvation, blaming the United States for drought, blaming the United States for our own internal corruption that prevents effective land and agricultural reform, and blaming the United States for an economy ravaged by centuries of war. Oh, yeah. And demanding that the United States send us more money."

[shaggy eel]

BURP

[Paul Atreides]

I'm surprised Bubba was there to give a speech. They must have blown the budget on the food.

[Paul Atreides]

That should read "I'm surprised Bubba wasn't there"

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[buffyt]

Hi, Hon!
You are egggggsactly correct!!!!!! That is the true cause! And for these people to have a big fancy banquet in honor of hunger, is kinda silly! And stupid!
Barbara

[Clive]

BURP, indeed!

I wonder if Mugabe asked for a doggy bag.

[HiTech RedNeck]

Menu should have been: 1 cup of rice; glass of water.