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The REAL Global Food Crisis!
Seriously, folks; people are starving to death worldwide, and the leaders of the largest nations in the world pig out -- and I mean PIG OUT -- at an 18 course dinner AND a six-course lunch....
And they wonder why people hate politicians... Check out the menu after the break...
From The Daily Mail: World leaders enjoy 18-course banquet... then discuss how to solve global food crisis
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.
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