Editing G8 (section)

== Criticism ==
[[File:Genova-G8 2001-Incidenti a Corso Torino.jpg|thumb|upright=1.25|20 July 2001, [[27th G8 summit]] in [[Genoa]], Italy: Protesters burn a police vehicle.]]

One type of criticism is that members of G8 do not do enough to help global problems, due to strict [[patent]] policy and other issues related to [[Economic globalization|globalization]]. In ''Unraveling Global Apartheid'', political analyst Titus Alexander described the G7, as it was in 1996, as the 'cabinet' of global minority rule, with a coordinating role in world affairs.<ref>{{cite book |last=Alexander |first=Titus |title=Unraveling Global Apartheid: An overview of world politics |publisher=Polity Press |year=1996 |pages=212–213}}</ref>

In 2012 [[The Heritage Foundation]], an American [[Conservatism in the United States|conservative]] think tank, criticized the G8 for advocating [[food security]] without making room for economic freedom.<ref name=HF17May>{{cite news |last=Miller |first=Terry |title=G8 Food Security Agenda Should Encourage Greater Privatisation |url=http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2012/05/g8-food-security-agenda-should-encourage-greater-economic-freedom |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120519130214/http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2012/05/g8-food-security-agenda-should-encourage-greater-economic-freedom |url-status=unfit |archive-date=19 May 2012 |access-date=18 May 2012 |newspaper=[[The Heritage Foundation]] |date=17 May 2012}}</ref>