Posted on 07/07/2008 10:11:38 PM PDT by Oyarsa
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.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
No thank you, that might start a trend.
Put a picture of Helen Thomas on the table and it will kill their appetites.
“But Dominic Nutt, of the charity Save the Children, did not approve.
‘It is deeply hypocritical that they should be lavishing course after course on world leaders when there is a food crisis and millions cannot afford a decent meal,’ he said.
‘If the G8 wants to betray the hopes of a generation of children, it is going the right way about it. The food crisis is an emergency and the G8 must treat it as that.’”
I was all prepared to pounce on the bigwigs for their gluttony until I saw this bit of pious do-goodery. I suppose Mr. Nutt himself lives on oatmeal and tofu.
A three-course lunch and a six-course dinner would seem reasonable enough.
Already posted
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
I looked at the menu. I don’t know what half those things are, but none of it sounds good to me. I looked at that list, and I determined I’d rather have a hamburger.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
LOL! What you had to eat yeterday sounds better than what they ate at that Summit.
yeterday = yesterday
I regularly dine on a three-course dinner..... meat, potatoes and gravy. ;>)
I didn’t read the article but a moose bit my sister once.
This is the kind of facile “gotcha” “journalism” that reporters love; because it saves them the tedium of researching and reporting on the substantive issues & frees up their time for hitting the local bars.
If the conference attendees had conducted a symbolic fast; or if they'd munched on rice and bugs — reporters would have castigated them for the phoniness of their symbolic gestures.
A pox on all of them.
That happens to me so very often when attending various dinners for business reasons: A menu with way too much that I don’t recognize. Give me meat and potatoes.
MM
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