Well, the G8 leaders have bottled it once again. Ban Ki-Moon and Jaques Diouf of the UN have been addressing the World food summit and of all people, only Silvio Berlusconi of the G8 leaders have actually turned up to see what was going on. Do you suppose he got lost? Well, that's rather unfair, actually; the man has actually done something commendable for a change.
The former UN head, Kofi Annan criticised the G8 leaders most vociferously. And Ban Ki-Moon and Diouf actually took part in a Even the Pope got involved. Incidentally, that website is called "TOTALCATHOLIC.COM" - surely the next step in Action Movies? 'His name was Tony. He had a mission. He was a TOTAL CATHOLIC.'
What can we, as poor, simple folk do? Well, in the west we could try switching to a vegetarian diet, after all the production of cattle, fowl and other meaty products is actually really inefficient way of getting food down our necks. We could try to switch off the odd light here and there to reduce energy consumption (and indirectly reduce climate change). That's all a matter of personal choice, of course, and I would hate to be the one to force anyone to make that choice. While I am vegetarian, I do forget to switch the odd thing off (if you do read this, you might argue that I should have switched my computer off. Ha bleedin' ha.) What we can all do though is to visit http://www.1billionhungry.org/ and give it a click. Listen to what Diouf has to say in his video. Sign the petition. Perhaps something will be done.
The former UN head, Kofi Annan criticised the G8 leaders most vociferously. And Ban Ki-Moon and Diouf actually took part in a Even the Pope got involved. Incidentally, that website is called "TOTALCATHOLIC.COM" - surely the next step in Action Movies? 'His name was Tony. He had a mission. He was a TOTAL CATHOLIC.'
What can we, as poor, simple folk do? Well, in the west we could try switching to a vegetarian diet, after all the production of cattle, fowl and other meaty products is actually really inefficient way of getting food down our necks. We could try to switch off the odd light here and there to reduce energy consumption (and indirectly reduce climate change). That's all a matter of personal choice, of course, and I would hate to be the one to force anyone to make that choice. While I am vegetarian, I do forget to switch the odd thing off (if you do read this, you might argue that I should have switched my computer off. Ha bleedin' ha.) What we can all do though is to visit http://www.1billionhungry.org/ and give it a click. Listen to what Diouf has to say in his video. Sign the petition. Perhaps something will be done.
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