Oh, just shut the hell up

So Burger King is selling a $200 burger in the UK, made with "Japanese wagyu beef, white truffles, onions fried in Cristal champagne, topped with pink Himalayan rock salt."

Now, I think anybody who's going to drop a chunk of change like that on a hamburger, much less one from Burger King, is a chump. But it's their money, and they can spend it any way they see fit. And if people are willing to drop two bills for a burger, hey, why shouldn't Burger King take advantage of that? Everybody's happy, right?

Wrong:

What's not going down so easily is Burger King's controversial concept of "delicious decadence" during a time of global economic meltdown and worldwide food shortages. Food crisis campaigners view it as the wrong burger at the wrong place at the wrong time.

"To come out with this kind of hugely expensive and over-the-top burger and to have 800 million people going to bed hungry every night is just to shoot yourself in the foot," said Dave Tucker of the organization "War On Want."

Right. Because if it weren't for Burger King serving these burgers, all those hungry people would be dining on wagyu beef and truffles.

Or is it that you're a smug, self-righteous prick who thinks we should all don hairshirts and eat nothing but organic tofu sprinkled with wheat germ because, somehow, in some way which you're never really going to fully explain, living a more "sustainable" (read: miserable) lifestyle is going to help these starving people thousands of miles away?

I'm leaning toward the latter.