This may be old, but it shows how disgusting the first world dogs are.
AT FORUM U.S. REJECTS FOOD RIGHTS - The Washington PostA U.N.-sponsored World Food Summit ended today in ringing calls to end hunger but with differences over how to go about it, highlighted by U.S. insistence that it does not recognize a "right to food."
The five-day gathering at the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), overshadowed by the refugee crisis in Zaire, was the highest-level meeting of its kind called to discuss efforts to end starvation.
It adopted a Declaration on World Food Security and Plan of Action which pledged to halve the number of hungry people from the current 840 million by 2015.
"If it depended on me, I certainly would not have set an objective whereby 400 million people continue not to have access to adequate food," FAO Director General Jacques Diouf declared at a news conference disrupted by protesters shouting, "Farce!"
Diouf said the summit texts, which are non-binding and contain no cash commitments, represent a consensus among the 186 states that negotiated them. "Arriving at a consensus means a spirit of give and take," said Diouf, from Senegal.
The summit texts were adopted by acclamation at the start of the gathering after more than two years of negotiation. They contain compromise language in contentious areas such as trade, development aid, population, sanctions and women's rights.
In a sign of abiding fundamental differences, 15 delegations lodged reservations or interpretations on the texts, including the United States, the world's biggest food aid provider.
The United States noted that it has not agreed to a target of spending 0.7 percent of annual economic wealth on development aid and took issue with a reaffirmation by the summit of the "right of everyone to have access to safe and nutritious food."