World leaders enjoy 18-course meal while debating global food crisis

Maybe while the world chats about it someone should do it....Grow food?

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Let's be serious.

This was a lunch for the Heads of State for eight of the most powerful nations in the world. What are they going to do, order carryout from Kentucky Fried Chicken?

These are the big shooters. Big as they get. When they share a meal, it's going to be a nice one. They can do beans and rice on their own time.

What they eat is direct or indirectly stolen from the poor.

They are the hypocrites greedy leaders in over consumption. The cause of poverty(those leaders) can never solve world hunger problems.

I don't whish those dodgy leaders good health.

Between the nuts, coffee, smoked salmon, tomato, soy sauce vinegar and sugar, we need that but they can have the rest since common folk don't have that stuff anyway so we aren't really missing anything of our food stocks.

They should have just given them all a bottle of Mad Dog and a Whopper with cheese since these are the same people who are the authors of slums.

How is this food paid for?

The cost of the food for one person could of feed many people.

the MILK FED LAMB and CORN & CAVIAR sounded really tasty. george w. bush thinks salmonella is SAL MONELLA a 3rd baseman for the texas rangers. LET THEM EAT CAKE!

Dare I say, delicious irony?

Why are Afrikans too stupid to feed themselves? why make your life better, when you can beg? You communist pigs will destroy the world.

These people all believe that they are members of an entitled class. They are simply "entitled" to the best of everything.

The fact that they don't even seem to realize how bad this looks to the rest of us is a measure of just how secure they feel. Someone more sensitive to the value of good public relations would have sent out for chicken salad.

Well no one is starving here. Most everyone here are muffin tops and fat. Chicken leg quarters are 51 cents a pound. 2 pounds of dried pintos are a buck fifty. How can anyone be hungry. Put down your cell phone and get a job.

I have seen this kind of behaviour before! I was at a conference that was quite frugal and did not supply any breakfast rolls. So I roamed about in this conference building where all sorts of other meetings were being held. Turned out that across the hall from my meeting there was a huge breakfast being served to some world hunger organization. No kidding. Me and a friend asked if we could have some breakfast. Sure! This was like the breakfast buffets you see in fancy hotels. So I can see where this is happening here, too.

Strange world we live in.

This is where the social "elite" sit down to a million dollar taxpayer paid meal and figure out how to tax the sh*t out of everybody else to feed the starving masses,which of course they will avoid themselves by hiding thier money in overseas tax shelters and foreign accounts.

leo from shanghai wrote:

the MILK FED LAMB and CORN & CAVIAR sounded really tasty. george w. bush thinks salmonella is SAL MONELLA a 3rd baseman for the texas rangers. LET THEM EAT CAKE!

I thought SAL played shortstop??!!

Bluebonnets-Thistle wrote:

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I thought SAL played shortstop??!!

Didn't he get "whacked" by Tony Soprano?

strut2k wrote:

Let's be serious.
This was a lunch for the Heads of State for eight of the most powerful nations in the world. What are they going to do, order carryout from Kentucky Fried Chicken?
These are the big shooters. Big as they get. When they share a meal, it's going to be a nice one. They can do beans and rice on their own time.

"what are they going to do, order carryout from Kentucky Fried Chicken?", wonders "strut2k".

Come on, stop being an apologist for one of the most hypocritical displays of elitism and snobbery as well as a singularly tasteless inconsistency with the supposed purpose of the meeting.

Under the circumstances, even fried chicken might have been a luxury. Tofu and vegetable fried rice would have been in order.

Just think. These are the people who will soon be rationing your health care, as well as your energy.

This is why politicians are so out of touch with reality. They live a different existence than most of the rest of the world because of their wealth and position. It's why they never get anything accomplished. They dine on caviar with the rest of the world struggles. Those struggles don't effect them; why should they actively pursue solutions to problems that they aren't even remotely familiar with?

Give the little people some "cake" and maybe they'll shut up.

they said in f.t. most of the costs were for security. very high. millions. dsx roaring.

DearthOfCouth wrote:

These people all believe that they are members of an entitled class. They are simply "entitled" to the best of everything.
The fact that they don't even seem to realize how bad this looks to the rest of us is a measure of just how secure they feel. Someone more sensitive to the value of good public relations would have sent out for chicken salad.

Better yet, Ramen noodles would have sufficed and also painted them a much better color.

right out of the saul alinsky playbook...
incite the masses.