[thechat] Ending famine - politician style

[Chris Spruck]

At 06:58 AM 8/27/02 +0100, Martin Burns wrote:
>On Tue, 27 Aug 2002, Madhu Menon wrote:
>
> > He has also got in more than 4,400lbs of fillet steak and chicken breasts,
> > 450lbs of salmon, 220lbs of a tasty South African fish called kingclip —
> > and more than 1,000lbs of bacon and sausages.
>
>If you're feeding *anyone* with professional catering, that's pretty much
>what you'll get in RSA. And giving the total amounts without also saying
>how many you're feeding and for how long is pretty much straight out of
>"How to lie with statistics"

The primary site for info is http://www.johannesburgsummit.org/.

Number of Delegates Surpasses Expectations, Underscoring Importance of Sustainable Development
http://www.johannesburgsummit.org/html/whats_new/feature_story21.html

No idea who's eating what, but they mention attendance on the order of thousands. Guess GeorgieBoy is taking the moral high road by not going and gorging himself silly on lobster, oysters, and so forth. Idiot.

Chris