Chicken a la Carte

Posted on April 18 2009

As only one reader of this blog knows, I had reason to yesterday say that I was aware of the good fortune that there is food on my table: that I can provide for my children.

And then in response to my blog on accountants and the good they could do a link to a short film was posted. Please watch it.

Then muse on the fact that it is very largely an accident of birth that means you’re not in the position of those parents.

And then reflect on whether it’s worth beating the tax evasion and avoidance through transfer mispricing that accountants facilitate, at least in part through tax havens. Ending it could eliminate this misery for good.

PS And if cynics say it’s all staged I'll quietly weep — do you really think this does not happen?

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JIm for Justice says:

April 20 2009 at 10:48 am

A friend of mine recently returned from India very traumatised by the extent of the poverty he had witnessed. He wept as he told me how he and his wife had eaten in a restaurant at a table by the window. A group of wide eyed starving children peered in at them as they ate. Their appetite vanished & they stopped eating. When their plate was taken away the children vanished. They found out later that they had rushed round to the rear of the restaurant where a waiter had given them a take-away carton with what they had left. That’s how I know that the bona fide of that award-winning film ‘Chicken a la Carte’ is unquestionable.
Nadine Sy says:

April 27 2009 at 6:33 am

i’m from the philippines where mr. dimadura is from, and where the premise of the film was shot.. this is a true story.. this happens everyday for millions of shack-dwellers who have nothing to eat.. the term they use for this kind of food scourging is “batchoy” (not to be mistaken with the viand of the same name in the philippines “la paz batchoy”) me and my friends were suprised that lots of people from other nations who watched this video on youtube and other sites think that this is just a “plotted-story.” i am here to assert this is true, and i thank you for appreciating the lesson of the story that we be thankful for what we have. thank you!