Hunger talks start with lobster and foie gras

What goes best with famine?

A Merlot?

I prefer a nice Riesling. You really want something nice and light.

By 1960, just ten years later, hunger had largely disappeared and Ethiopia was a net food exporter!.
This success was followed by a Marxist revolution...and Ethiopians have been starving ever since.

Gee what a coincidence.

Then delegates committed themselves to halving the number of hungry people in the world to 400 million by 2015.
the West has failed to provide the “political will”, and the funds, to back up their promises,
Of the $70 billion (£48billion) spent on development aid worldwide, just $11 billion goes on agriculture

“We must mobilise political will and resources to move forward at an accelerated pace,” he said.


They say "We'll stunt Africa's growth.
And Asia has too many folks.
Too large is the mouth
in the Latin South
We'll aid 'em by cuttin' their throats."

"No, we must approach as a friend
and do our job from within.
Let's feed 'em the pill
that's made up to kill
and make their beginning their end."

Population reduction was all fun and games and something that happened to scrawny Extra people with flies on their faces ... until the West realized what was meant by the fact that "humans are responsible" for greenhouse gases and global warming.

If our coercive "aid as population control" is such a 59 billion dollar failure at "halving the number of Hungry People", what sorts of means for "accelerated pace" may we look forward to watching applied first -- perhaps -- to same?

Will the West's "right to die" (read: obligation to off oneself) catch on as the zenith of Empowerment and pleasing to the almighty Mother Earth who is so ill-equipped to provide for her human children?

whether there is such a thing as “the right to food” and, if so, how the world can achieve it.
Thanks to Western reservations, the draft summit declaration stops short of enshrining such a right, referring not to the “right to food” but to the need to “create the conditions” in which a “right to food” might be recognised. But the debate is under way.

Given the vogue for referring to food and water as "ANH" or "artificial nutrition and hydration" in Western cutting edge euthanasia cases, I think we know how this debate is going to end.

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Lazarus and Dives.....

Governments do a rotten job of feeding the hungry.

Ping!

Their menu is beyond my comprehension. I agree with a poster up there who stated, "They should have had one cup of rice and water." But, of course, no one would have shown up for war on hunger.

The Rome lunch was a symbol, for Western leaders at least, of the extravagant and bloated bureaucracies that the aid business has created, and went some way towards explaining why so few of them were in attendance yesterday.

"Let these shameless pigs die of food-poisoning."

Let them eat McDonald's food ... just about the same thing.

Their people back home would kill for a Big Mac or a Whopper ... preferably made out of the meat harvested from their leaders.

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

But they are making more money off of it?

The absence of Western leaders was “an indication of the political priority some people give to the tragedy of hunger”

If that staement wasn't so pathetic it would be laughable.

I don't think I would have put olives with the duck. I prefer a cherry or orange sauce, but hey, that's just me.

Very interesting. I didn't know that.

Typical Marxists in Mercedeses.

Texas Aggie? Or another Aggie?

In any event, our land grant schools have had more to do with feeding the world than any UN "World Food Summit".

Back in the seventies, when the socialists like Paul Ehrlich predicted worldwide starvation, our Ag Schools invented and propagated the "Green Revolution". And they could do it again. All it would take is soils irrigated by capitalism and fertilized with freedom.

Zimbabwe, for example, doesn't need Mugabe. It needs Auburn...

Texas Aggie, Class of '93. =)

A wild guess, but I think the American taxpayers paid for that feast.

Fugu sushi and mushrooms.

Perfecto!

Lip smacking treats this crowd ripely deserves.