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.
OMG! They are taking caviar right from the mouths of starving Africans.
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I think it has less to do with the idea that the food could be shipped to starving people, as it is the idea that world leaders dont understand the hipocrisy of their actions.How is it hypocritical? It's ironic, but not hypocritical.
Think bout it.
Maybe they should eat cans of spam and drink tap water.
Skipping a lavish meal won't affect the state of world hunger. Their energy policies and farm subsidy policies are more important than what they eat for lunch or dinner.
Concrete images are sooooooo much easier to communicate than economic policy.
If my boy Edwards had won the nomination we'd still be hearing about his haircuts.