Posted on 07/07/2008 10:11:38 PM PDT by Oyarsa
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.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
No thank you, that might start a trend.
Put a picture of Helen Thomas on the table and it will kill their appetites.
“But Dominic Nutt, of the charity Save the Children, did not approve.
‘It is deeply hypocritical that they should be lavishing course after course on world leaders when there is a food crisis and millions cannot afford a decent meal,’ he said.
‘If the G8 wants to betray the hopes of a generation of children, it is going the right way about it. The food crisis is an emergency and the G8 must treat it as that.’”
I was all prepared to pounce on the bigwigs for their gluttony until I saw this bit of pious do-goodery. I suppose Mr. Nutt himself lives on oatmeal and tofu.
A three-course lunch and a six-course dinner would seem reasonable enough.
Already posted
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
I looked at the menu. I don’t know what half those things are, but none of it sounds good to me. I looked at that list, and I determined I’d rather have a hamburger.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
LOL! What you had to eat yeterday sounds better than what they ate at that Summit.
yeterday = yesterday
I regularly dine on a three-course dinner..... meat, potatoes and gravy. ;>)
I didn’t read the article but a moose bit my sister once.
This is the kind of facile “gotcha” “journalism” that reporters love; because it saves them the tedium of researching and reporting on the substantive issues & frees up their time for hitting the local bars.
If the conference attendees had conducted a symbolic fast; or if they'd munched on rice and bugs — reporters would have castigated them for the phoniness of their symbolic gestures.
A pox on all of them.
That happens to me so very often when attending various dinners for business reasons: A menu with way too much that I don’t recognize. Give me meat and potatoes.
MM
Yep this is funny, that they are gorging themselves while discussing food shortages.
Reminds me of the big carbon footprint that the Al Gore world wide concerts for global warming had. And the big carbon footprint his own house has.
And in other news, marriage counselors get divorced, psychiatrists have mental illness, dentists have cavities, plumbers have leaky pipes in their homes, and contractor’s wives can’t get them to remodel their own house.
‘It is deeply hypocritical that they should be lavishing course after course on world leaders when there is a food crisis and millions cannot afford a decent meal,’
And it is equally foolish to think that doing otherwise will change anything. When are these fools going to grow up? Will they ever value substance over symbols, and action over hollow rhetoric?
Me too, I'd look like Al Gore. Did he fly in for a take out order?
But never mind that, if world leaders can fly around the world in their private jets to meet on saving the environment with a straight face, then they can have an 18 course meal on hunger.
A fine aged Monte de Ripple, 2009, and Epec’ le Choke of Whitecastles would be more appropriate.
And no, I didn’t read the whole article!
I can only imagine the tubs of lard portrayed in WALL-E.
WHAT?!? Are you nutz newbie? This is FR pal, we have a tradition to uphold. Read the article, some nerve, harrumph!
Whew, now that that's out of the way ...
Bush's Fault!
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I totally agree (my uncle has a trophy).
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