Intelligent Discontent

• Written by: Bob FunkJuly 8th, 2008
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• Category:Featured, G8, Hunger, The World
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The G8 has, once again, proven it’s dedication to ending world hunger and food shortages:

Shortly after calling for us all to waste less food, and for an end to three-for-two deals in British supermarkets, Gordon Brown joined his fellow G8 premiers and their wives for an eight-course Marie Antoinette-style “Blessings of the Earth and the Sea Social Dinner”, courtesy of the Japanese government.

The global food shortage was not evident. As the champagne flowed, the couples enjoyed 18 “higher-quality ingredients”, beginning with amuse-bouche of corn stuffed with caviar, smoked salmon and sea urchin pain-surprise-style, hot onion tart and winter lily bulbs.

Hasn’t anyone ever said, “hey, maybe this isn’t a classy move on our part…”? Maybe someone has, but apparaently, no one was listening. This display of tack, or lact thereof, reeks, depressingly so, of irony and doesn’t merit much confidence in the G8 actually taking on the issues they promise tot ake on every year they meet.

How insulting for anyone suffering from hunger. It makes one lose their appetite.