Hot Price For Poverty Dog

The world's most expensive hot dog will go on sale in the Swedish city of Stockholm. The top price doggies are part of a United Nations-sponsored event aimed at highlighting the problem of poverty as world leaders gather at the UN summit in New York.

Hot dogs and veggie dogs will be sold in downtown Stockholm for A$172 each. "The goal is to highlight world poverty during the UN summit in New York by using a simple metaphor, the customary Swedish 'korv' (hot dog), to show people here what it would be like to live life without having enough money for even the most basic things," he told AFP. More than more than a billion people worldwide live on less than one dollar a day, according to the UNDP.

For someone who lives on a dollar a day, buying a hot dog at the regular price of A$3.00 dollars, would be as impossible as asking your typical, well-to-do Swede to pay one thousand kronor for a "korv", he pointed out.
SOURCE: World News STORY ARCHIVE