Rich World Leaders Greet Global Food Crisis With Caviar, Champaign, And 25 More Courses Of Poached Irony

This goes a long ways to sum up everything wrong with the G8, or the group of the eight more wealthy and powerful nations in the world. At their recent meeting in Japan, they met to discuss the world food crisis, which has left over a billion people hungry, and has accelerated in recent years as climate change and the development of biofuels has made food more scarce and made food prices skyrocket. At the meeting, they gorged themselves on a 6-course lunch and a staggering 18-course dinner, full of delicacies and imported wines and champagnes.


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Meanwhile British PM Gordon Brown "called for prudence and thrift in our kitchens, after a Government report concluded that 4.1 million tonnes of food was being wasted by householders". He also suggested that "we could save up to £8 (around $16) a week by making our shopping go further" and that it was "vital to reduce 'unnecessary demand' for food."

Really? Really?? And you wonder why the rest of the world protests your little tea parties? Is it any wonder that Save The Children reacts with this?:

'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.'

You wonder why everyone things you don't get it, don't really care, and aren't going to really do anything to change things? Can you not see that you are part of the problem?

How hypocritical. How shameless.