Don't discuss world hunger over a huge meal.

[MrAngryFace]

The media jumps right on it. Gotta admit it is pretty LOLZ

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

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.

They even have the menu in the article lol.

[FlameOfCallandor]

Let them eat cake!

[FlameOfCallandor]

Oh and fuck world leaders. In the ass.

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[Flannel Boy]

OMG! They are taking caviar right from the mouths of starving Africans.

 

[Phoenix Dark]

next time they should have black bread and boloni sammiches

[MrAngryFace]

This story was done a few months ago at a similar dinner lol. The media LUVS this kinda story.

[Phoenix Dark]

i liked the older, more cannibalistic story

[Van Cruncheon]

i'd like my world despots to act the part, so i support this "cannibalize a third-world child for state meals" initiative

[Crushed]

Yeah, I don't see the problem here outside of the humorous irony. Rich people eat rich food while discussing how to solve food problems for poor people. Like Malek said, it's not like they're stealing the sea urchin and lamb from starving Chinese people.

[Madrun Badrun]

OMG! They are taking caviar right from the mouths of starving Africans.

 

exactly.

[MrAngryFace]

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.

Think bout it.

[Flannel Boy]

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.

[Crushed]

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.

Think bout it.

How is it hypocritical? It's ironic, but not hypocritical.

[MrAngryFace]

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.

liberal media! they gotta report on somethin!

[Mandark]

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.

[FlameOfCallandor]

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.

And he would still be talking about his dad who worked in a mill...

[Olivia Wilde Homo]

Is this the 2008 equivalent to Al Gore's mansion?

[Cormacaroni]

Come on now, Japan would be mortified to serve the leaders of the free world (and the Chinese) anything less than a sumptuous feast. This is a cheap shot.

Besides, you can't cure world hunger with food, in any meaningful, long-term fashion. Shipping a food surplus to hungry people in underdeveloped nations just leads to more overpopulation globally. There will always be hungry people somewhere until we get the population under control. If this means that rich men  have to eat caviar while discussing nefarious plans to unleash monkey AIDS on Africa, so be it.