The United Nations Food and Agriculture Summit is currently being held in Rome. The purpose of the meeting is to create “an emergency plan to reduce hunger and help Third World farmers.”
While millions around the world go hungery, the leaders and representatives who created this hunger problem feast. According to the AP, the menu for the meeting is quite spectacular:
For presidents and premiers at summits, delicacies washed down by fine wines are all part of the agenda.
But the puff pastries with corn and mozzarella, pasta with pumpkin and shrimp, and rolls of thinly sliced veal served up Tuesday at a U.N. conference on fighting hunger were a contrast to bleak accounts of starving people around the world.
The menu was in French but the fare was strictly Italian, served in a dining room at the headquarters of the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization.
The repast was accompanied by a chilled white wine from Orvieto in the hills of Umbria north of Rome.
“It’s pretty standard stuff,” said FAO spokesman Nick Parsons, describing the meal as “pleasant, light and nutritious.”
For the millions suffering because of the bureaucrats failures, this is not “pretty standard stuff.” These clowns should be feasting on bologna and cheese, some plain label chips and a hot Diet Shasta.
No, not the elites. They get puff pastries while their subjects hunger.
Here’s the full menu:
Tuesday:
- Vol-au-vent (pastry puffs) with corn and mozzarella
- Pasta with a sauce of pumpkin and shrimp in cream
- Veal rolls with cherry tomatoes and basil
- Spinach Roman-style
- Fruit salad with vanilla ice cream
- white wine from Orvieto
Wednesday:
- Cheese mousse
- Pasta with vegetables and cherry tomatoes
- Chopped beef
- Butter beans
- Pineapple with ice cream
- Cabernet
Thursday:
- Zucchini pie
- Parmesan Risotto
- Ragout of veal with legumes
- Sauteed potatoes
- Lemon mousse with raspberry sauce.
- Pinot Grigio
It’s like some surreal scene directly from the pages of an Ayn Rand novel. These are the knuckleheads that created the hunger problem. People like Robert Mugabe, who took the breadbasket of Southern Africa and turned it into a disaster area. He is in attendance, and has actually blamed the West for his country’s food shortages.
Mugabe struck a defiant tone — accusing Western powers of maneuvering to bring about “regime change” in Zimbabwe.
He contended that while land reform was “warmly welcomed” by most of his people, it has “elicited wrath from our former colonial masters.”
“The United Kingdom has mobilized her friends and allies in Europe, North America, Australia and New Zealand to impose illegal economic sanctions against Zimbabwe,” he said.
Although Mugabe pins much of his nation’s plight on the sanctions, the measures are narrowly targeted at him and his allies. Humanitarian aid, with the Europeans the biggest donors, continues to flow, but is channeled through aid groups instead of the government.
Not only does Mugabe refuse to accept repsonsibility for the conditions his policies created, but he recently ordered that providers of food aid stop their efforts to feed the hungry:
Human Rights Watch said Wednesday that the Zimbabwe government is imposing control over food aid to intimidate voters before the presidential runoff.
The New York-based organization called for the government to lift restrictions on international aid groups operating in Zimbabwe.
The aid organization CARE International has been ordered to halt operations pending an investigation of allegations it was campaigning for the opposition. CARE denies that was the case.
Other aid groups have also been told to curb activities in Zimbabwe and there is concern the decision will hinder the delivery of food to millions of people.
“The decision to let people go hungry is yet another attempt to use food as a political tool to intimidate voters ahead of an election,” said Tiseke Kasambala, Zimbabwe researcher at Human Rights Watch. “President Mugabe’s government has a long history of using food to control the election outcome.”
CARE International provides aid to about 500,000 Zimbabweans and had planned to resume food distribution this month to about 1 million people.
Your United States tax dollars are helping to support this summit, which gives men like Robert Mugabe a platform to attack the United States and blame others for his actions. And your tax dollars also give him a big meal with Lemon mousse with raspberry sauce for dessert, all while he intentionally starves his own people.
Isn’t it time to leave the United Nations?
