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Jul 09, 2008, 09:56AM

Lunch With Caviar Helps World Leaders Solve Food Crisis

At last week's economically important G-8 meeting of leading industrialized nations, one of the hottest topics was the global food crisis. All sorts of interesting ideas were brought up, but apparently one of the most obvious slipped everyone's mind: reducing consumption. The heads of state indulged in an 18 course meal themed "Hokkaido, blessings of the earth and the sea."

Just two days ago, Gordon Brown was urging us all to stop wasting food and combat 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.

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.'

 

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