No Lobster at UN Hunger Summit

In 2002 UN officials who gathered to fight world hunger ate vicariously for the starving masses around the world. They had foie gras, kiwi, lobster in vinaigrette, goose with olives and fine wines.

Looks like the starving folks in Marxist paradises like North Korea are going to have to do their vicarious dining in less opulence this time around.

From the UK Times:

World leaders attending the UN food summit in Rome settled down today to a "modest" lunch in order not to be accused of "hypocrisy" as they were at the last world food summit six years ago.

Lobster, goose and foie gras have given way to pasta, mozzarella, spinach and sweetcorn. "It does not look good if leaders discussing global starvation are seen to be dining lavishly," an official of the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) said. "At the last summit in 2002 we did not give enough thought to the menu and were open - unfairly, in our view - to the charge of hypocrisy."

Unfairly charged with hypocrisy? This is one of the reasons the United Nations is a corrupt, worthless organization that needs to be ditched. They aren't even in the same galaxy with reality.

Take a look at what meager rations they'll be subsisting on during this year's hunger conference:

Leaders first ate vol au vent stuffed with sweetcorn and mozzarella, followed by a pasta dish with a sauce of pumpkin and shrimps, and then veal meatballs and cherry tomatoes, with a fruit salad and vanilla ice-cream for dessert. The wine was a "straightforward but very acceptable Orvieto Classico", officials said.

Tomorrow the lunch menu features cheese mousse, pasta, green beans and pineapple with ice-cream, all washed down with a Nero d'Avola Cabernet from Sicily. On Thursday, the last day of the summit, delegates will be offered courgette tart, parmesan risotto, ragout of veal with sautee potatoes, and lemon mousse for dessert with a strawberry sauce, with Pino Grigio from Trentino as the wine.

Now these "caring" individuals from some of the greatest enclaves of tyranny, er, compassion around the world are truly slumming it and living like the rest of us...well, some of us. ;-)