World Leaders Starve at Food Summit


	World Leaders Starve at Food Summit

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6-5-2008 3:44 AM

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Six years ago, at another Food and Agriculture Organisation summit in Rome, The
Times got hold of the menu for the sumptuous opening day lunch. Its
publication caused a scandal.
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The 2002 summit had set itself the target of halving the number of hungry
people in the world by 2015. It began by feeding the heads of state lobster
and foie gras and letting them wash it all down with an array of fine wines.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article4058305.ece"><P>
Perhaps mindful of accusations of hypocrisy levelled at them six years ago,
world leaders tightened their belts this year and were offered a far more
modest menu of pasta, mozzarella, spinach and sweetcorn at the equivalent
fixture.
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Vol au vent with sweetcorn and mozzarella 
Pasta with cream of pumpkin and shrimps 
Veal olives with cherry tomatoes and basil 
Fruit salad with vanilla ice cream 
Vin Orvieto Classico Poggio Calvelli 2005</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article4058305.ece"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.timesonline.co.uk/img/A0F84B92-0505-4B6C-86DF-A9AB58BE8CD8" alt="A child with severe malnutrition is force fed by his mother in Niger" /></div></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/99629BD1-B3BA-4DCC-97FC-E2FB2F5D43E1/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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