Food Summit Failure

Food Summit Failure

Do as I say, not as I do has never been the rhetoric of good parenting and it doesn’t bode well for countries either. This past July the G-8 leaders, consisting of the U.S., the United Kingdom, Russia, France, Germany, Japan, Italy, and Canada, approved a $20 billion, three year agricultural development aide package in order to help farmers in poor countries learn to produce their own food for their own people. The failure of this year’s U.N. Food and Ag Organization summit in Rome made a complete mockery of that decision. For starters, all but one of the G-8 leaders failed to even show up for the summit while the other representatives of the 192 participating countries unanimously turned down the U.N.’s appeal for financial aide for developing agriculture in poor countries. Several then proceeded to get down to their seemingly more important matters at hand, shopping and partying. To say that such a lack of commitment by our world’s leaders is a disappointment is an understatement. To say that it is a disgrace and comes as no real surprise is sadly all too accurate.

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