Poor to eat horsemeat-tainted food: German Minister

Once a queen advised people to eat cake when they were protesting against non-availability of the bread.

Now here comes a German minister who suggests that the horse-meat tainted food must be fed to the poor.

Dirk Niebel said he supported the proposal by a member of the governing CDU party, and concluded: "We can't just throw away good food."

The opposition dismissed the idea, but a priest said it should be considered.

Prelate Bernhard Felmberg, the senior representative of the Evangelical Church in Germany (EKD), has backed the proposal.

"We as a Church find the throw-away mentality in our society concerning. How and whether to distribute the products in question would have to be examined."

Earlier Saturday, another 'prominent member' of Germany's governing CDU party, Hartwig Fischer, also told Bild newspaper that products tainted with horse-meat should be distributed to the poor.

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Who do you call 1%

Full Story: BBC News / Magazine 24 Nov

The Occupy Wall Street campaign has divided us between 99% and 1% - but how should we differentiate between the two. Even a man in a brand new Mercedez considers him part of 99% when something better and more expensive whiz by him. So the question remains:

Caroline McClatchey of BBC has put in some research work on the issue. According to her "findings":

In 1880 a rich person would have had £100,000 in assets or an income of £10,000 a year, he says. About a hundred people a year died leaving £100,000 and by 1910 this was 250 - "a microscopic fraction of the number of deaths at the time".

Prof Rubinstein thinks annual earnings of £250,000 is the cut-off point today and says the rich-poor divide has always been tolerable only as long as the poor have opportunities.

Read full story to find more on definition of 1% and the "remaining." 

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