Hunger talks start with lobster and foie gras The Times (U.K.) | 06/11/2002 | Richard Owen
Posted on 6/10/02 4:41 PM Pacific by Pokey78
THE opening day of the World Food Summit, dedicated to combating global hunger, was marked yesterday by a sumptuous lunch for the 3,000 delegates served by 170 Italian waiters.
The summit leaders were offered foie gras, lobster, and goose stuffed with olives. followed by fruit compote.
The Rome lunch was a symbol, for Western leaders at least, of the extravagant and bloated bureaucracies that the aid business has created, and went some way towards explaining why so few of them were in attendance yesterday.
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