Global Famine Food Crisis
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Once again, another summit of the G8,
lots of talk, lots of promises, little done at the end.
But this time after reading an article from the guardian, I feel like they are seriously making fun of us all,
http://www.guardian.co.uk/enviro…"...Guests at the summit, which is costing £238m, were then able to pick items from a tray modelled on a fan and decorated with bamboo grasses, including diced fatty tuna fish, avocado and jellied soy sauce, and pickled conger eel with soy sauce.
Hairy crab Kegani bisque-style soup was another treat in a meal prepared by the Michelin-starred chef Katsuhiro Nakamura, the grand chef at Hotel Metropolitan Edmont in Tokyo, alongside salt-grilled bighand thornyhead (a small, red Pacific fish) with a vinegary water pepper sauce..."
- Spookytim0
I'd have to agree with you there. That certainly does seem to be taking the right old pizzle. They should eat humbly, and do their important work with humility, and lead by example... not sit there scoffing top notch japanese haut cuisine. Fucking wankers.
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let me help you there
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And I add
"Georges Bush hates hungry people""(insert president) hates hungry people"
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Oh look! A conspiracy! G8 leaders eat lunch!
What do you expect them to do? Sit there hungry in solidarity? Because we all do that don't we.
- Spookytim0
Moth
No, they could eat the kind of food ordinary people eat at a price per head that reflects the average western standard. If they did that they'd be eating better than 90% of the population. Heaven forbid they might try and add some realism to their meeting by having a go at eating what's available to the poor. I wouldn't expect them to play at being paupers, but eating the very finest japanese cuisine is, quite literally, a bit rich.
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It's a non-story though.
They ARE rich.
I'm rich compared to the starving masses.I don't care about what they ate - I care about what they do and what they don't do.
The guardian is quickly becoming worse than the daily mail for utterly pointless twists.
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And get out of this thread detritus.
You're charity of choice is global warming - you don't care about starving people!
- My charity 'of choice', if it must be such, is equilibrium.detritus
- Spookytim0
I agree with your comments about The Guardian.
You seem to be saying however that you don't feel there is any problem with what they ate on the basis that they are rich people and therefor ethey can eat expensive food.
I may have misunderstood your point completely Moth but that's what I assume you mean when you say:
"It's a non-story though. They ARE rich. I'm rich compared to the starving masses"
But if that is what you meant, aren't you assuming that they paid for the meal? They didn't pay for the meal. That's the problem here... its the privelidged few dining out on the taxpayer's money while they discuss the global food crisis. Its just not very honourable is it? It has no integrity, no humility, it doesn't suggest they are leading by example does it.
And as for not caring about what they eat, but caring about what they do... what do they ever do? and what do you think they'll do this time round?
Gordon Brown is urging people to be less wasteful with their food. Did we pay for a top japanese chef to prepare ethically indulgent 'amuse bouches' so that Gordon brown can tell us all to be more respourceful with our grocery scraps?
"Let them eat cake" springs to mind here.
- amuse bouches = a blow job from a girl who totally makes you laugh at the time maybe cause shechossy
- is giving you a horses kiss as well as a blow job the dirty little strumpet!!!.chossy
- "Amuse Bouche" is actually yorkshire slang for "Tickle my pubic garden" Michael Parkinson says it all the..Spookytim
- ... time to Ronnie Corbett who happens to be the perfect height.Spookytim
- NO IT DOES NOT it means to totally get the devils breakfast from a chick!!!.chossy
- Hahaha, "Devil's Breakfast"Spookytim
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"I don't care about what they ate - I care about what they do and what they don't do."
I'll let you one hours to find something that have been discussed during the G5/G8/G12 summit that actually resolved something,
Its like they go there, talk, eat, joke and go back home with a t-shirt that says "G8 2008 I was there"
those meetings are pointless at least they should have a little bit of respect for those that are directly touched by the problem they will discuss
its like going to a shooting range with a bazooka and later discussing the knife death epidemic, nobody will take you seriously...
- I'd fucking take you seriously with a bazooka in your hand.kelpie
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"its like going to a shooting range with a bazooka and later discussing the knife death epidemic, nobody will take you seriously..."
hmmmm.
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Why would they pay for their meal? They're our elected representatives - and they're doing their job.
Just because they're discussing food doesn't mean they should act or behave any differently.
If there wasn't a global food crisis, there wouldn't be a problem with what's on their plate!
- Spookytim0
"its like going to a shooting range with a bazooka and later discussing the knife death epidemic, nobody will take you seriously..."
or
"Its like going to a G8 summit and eating the very finest of high class titillating digestibles and later discussing the world food shortage, nobody will take you seriously... except Moth who will defend it without conceding that it would be more noble to eat a humble fayre that nourishes the body rather than delights the senses"
hmmmm.
