Hunger talks start with lobster and foie gras
THE opening day of the UN World Food Summit, dedicated to combating global hunger, was marked yesterday by a sumptuous lunch for the 3,000 delegates served by 170 Italian waiters.
The summit leaders were offered foie gras, lobster, and goose stuffed with olives. followed by fruit compote.
The Rome lunch was a symbol, for Western leaders at least, of the extravagant and bloated bureaucracies that the aid business has created, and went some way towards explaining why so few of them were in attendance yesterday.
storyhere from The Times.
Also, and sorry again, I couldn't find the article in the link you gave. It's probably my error especially having just got in from a very long and hard working day.
Not if I had cooked it . . .What ever I eat I would class it as sumptuous.
That is the very point I was trying to make but made it badly.Not if I had cooked it . . .
(But seriously, if I understand you correctly, I agree—it's important to be grateful for having food.)
I think a lot of this comes under 'no such thing as bad publicity'...They're all hypocrites these days though aren't they, whether it be sports stars, actors, politicians....whatever.
The problem is that what a lot of these people don't realise is that as soon as you start pointing fingers, other fingers start getting pointed back.
That's the nature of modern times as there is lots of social media history for those with an opposing view to trawl through.
Oops.Fire destroys fire station.
https://ottawa.ctvnews.ca/fire-destroys-fire-station-in-portland-ont-1.5716102
Note: They quote the angel ...
And it's their series of stamps:
Man who had pig heart transplant was guilty of 1988 stabbing
The man who received the world's first pig heart transplant once stabbed a man seven times leaving him paralysed, his victim's family have revealed.
David Bennett, 57, was convicted of the 1988 stabbing of Edward Shumaker, his sister told Radio 4's Today show.
Leslie Shumaker Downey said that her brother died in 2007 after almost two decades of medical complications linked to the attack.
She said Mr Bennett was an unworthy recipient of the pioneering surgery.
But the team who carried out the operation said that someone's criminal record could never be grounds for refusing them treatment.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-60010155
That's OK - the world can stop buying their stuff for the same reason.China tells its citizens not to buy foreign goods, because they might bring Covid in with them.
Oh dear. The nerve of all those countries around the world infecting poor innocent China with Covid!
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...told-as-covid-threatens-olympics-and-holidays