Cal me a cynic, but after reading some of the artists on the original "Do they Know it's Xmas" recording boasting how they were all "off their face" when recording it, I felt if they had all donated a sum equivalent to their annual spending on illegal drugs, they could have raised a significant extra sum. I won't go into the pressure on poor agricultural communities to abandon even subsistence farming in order to grow the makings for drugs which bring them in a little more but lead to all the other problems we know so well. The conspicuous consumption of luxuries by people like Elton John who seem unable to make the link with real poverty elsewhere....
Sorry I won't rant any further...

RtS