Food crisis summit has 19-course meal

Gordon Brown has already bellowed his instructions to the proles: no more wasting food. And while you're at it, none of that pesky overconsumption, either - we're going through hard times after all, and the huddled masses should be savouring every speck of chicken nugget and soggy oven chip they can get their hands on.

We know what you're thinking: is there any way around this? Any loophole that will allow you to wolf down as much calorie-packed goodness as your stomach can handle? Sure there is - simply get yerself invited along to the next G8 World Food Crisis Summit and you'll be treated to a slap-up 19-course feast.

Still - who are we to raise our eyebrows? The eight summit-goers - including our own Mr. Brown - must have been feeling a little peckish. After all, the only thing they'd had to eat previously that day was a five-course lunch. And that didn't even have enough Capri-Suns to go around.

Dominic Nutt of Save The Children is decidedly unimpressed:

"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 to eat. If the G8 wants to betray the hopes of a generation of children, it is going the right way about it."

Most interesting of all? No African leaders were invited to tuck in. Oh, well ... why break the habit of a lifetime, eh, guys?

Written by C J Davies on 8 Jul 2008 12:03 AM. Permalink