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dobbie6060



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PostPosted: Tue Jul 08, 2008 5:54 am    Post subject: G8...mmm..good
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/politics/over-caviar-and-sea-u...in-g8-l

Over caviar and sea urchin, G8 leaders mull food crisis
By Andrew Grice, Political Editor in Hokkaido
World leaders are not renowned for their modest wine selections or reticence at the G8 summit's cheese board. True to form, discussing the global food crisis – spiralling grocery prices in the developed world and starvation in Africa – was clearly hungry work that left their stomachs rumbling.
Shortly after calling for us all to waste less food, and for an end to three-for-two deals in British supermarkets, Gordon Brown joined his fellow G8 premiers and their wives for an eight-course Marie Antoinette-style "Blessings of the Earth and the Sea Social Dinner", courtesy of the Japanese government...
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kenmabmcc



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PostPosted: Tue Jul 08, 2008 6:02 am    Post subject: Re: G8...mmm..good [Login to view extended thread Info.]
dobbie6060 wrote:
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/politics/over-caviar-and-sea-urchin-g8-leaders-mull-food-crisis-862051.html

Over caviar and sea urchin, G8 leaders mull food crisis
By Andrew Grice, Political Editor in Hokkaido
World leaders are not renowned for their modest wine selections or reticence at the G8 summit's cheese board. True to form, discussing the global food crisis – spiralling grocery prices in the developed world and starvation in Africa – was clearly hungry work that left their stomachs rumbling.
Shortly after calling for us all to waste less food, and for an end to three-for-two deals in British supermarkets, Gordon Brown joined his fellow G8 premiers and their wives for an eight-course Marie Antoinette-style "Blessings of the Earth and the Sea Social Dinner", courtesy of the Japanese government...


I am sure that if you and I had attended we would have not wasted any of the food.
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ejward



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PostPosted: Tue Jul 08, 2008 8:44 am    Post subject: Re: G8...mmm..good [Login to view extended thread Info.]
Did they waste it? The article says this:

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It is a fair bet that much more than that was wasted last night at the opulent Windsor Hotel in Toya, 30 miles from the general public and with 20,000 special police officers for security


They are just betting it was wasted. I know that hotels near me donate leftover food to homeless shelters. Some of these homeless are eating better than I am.

Ok, they ate a very expensive meal. We've all eaten food that was more expensive than other food. Does that make us wasters? I know I usuallay eat every crumb. Is the article suggesting that they should have eaten rice? They sampled the local food. I don't think that is unheard of.
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bern



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PostPosted: Wed Jul 09, 2008 11:40 am    Post subject: Re: G8...mmm..good [Login to view extended thread Info.]
ejward wrote:
Did they waste it? The article says this:

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It is a fair bet that much more than that was wasted last night at the opulent Windsor Hotel in Toya, 30 miles from the general public and with 20,000 special police officers for security


They are just betting it was wasted. I know that hotels near me donate leftover food to homeless shelters. Some of these homeless are eating better than I am.

Ok, they ate a very expensive meal. We've all eaten food that was more expensive than other food. Does that make us wasters? I know I usuallay eat every crumb. Is the article suggesting that they should have eaten rice? They sampled the local food. I don't think that is unheard of.


Just so. The G8 leaders not eating caviar will not solve a food crisis anywhere.

To solve food crises they need to get Mugabe and others like him out of office. If eating caviar gives them the stomach to do the hard but effective things, then fine. But I suspect they would rather do nothing, or even worse, send food where the governing elite can corruptly dispose of it.
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