the hypocrisy of world leaders

I constantly see this type of stuff happen. Large meetings of world heads on how to get potable water to remote villages and areas without. Large meetings held in large rooms with fountains of water and water drip wall formations.

Here it is once more.

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. [Huffington Post]

The world lacks serious organization. In a planet where more foodis thrown away per day than what it would take to feed everyone. It's a sad thing to watch capitalism, the answer to socialism, collapse not only country people, but the world entirely in it's greed-fueled rampage to dominate. Sad really.

This *is* a food blog right?

Well, sort of and only at times. This weekend was long and strange one even by my standards. Remind me to tell you about it if you see me out.

In the meantime, trying to reconstruct myself, I landed on my friend Van's blog and through there I found a really good entry depicting global food fare through photography and monetary value.

It kinda puts into perspective, for me at least, how lucky I am to have devoured the pizza I had for dinner tonight, when easily by a strike of bad luck or cosmic karma I could have been feasting on garbanzo beans and water.

Chad: The Aboubakar family of Breidjing Camp
Food expenditure for one week: 685 CFA Francs or $1.23
[vanheartsyou]