HAITI - DIRT FOOD, IT'S REAL

With food prices rising, Haiti 's poorest can't afford even a daily plate of rice, and some take desperate measures to fill their bellies. Charlene, 16 with a 1-month-old son, has come to rely on a traditional Haitian remedy for hunger pangs: cookies made of dried yellow dirt from the country's central plateau.
The mud has long been prized by pregnant women and children here as an antacid and source of calcium. But in places like Cite Soleil, the oceanside slum where Charlene shares a two-room house with her baby, five siblings and two unemployed parents, cookies made of dirt, salt and vegetable shortening have become a regular meal. Excerpt from: Jonathan M. Katz, Associated Press Writer

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[HighDef21]

As a Haitian Im feel bad for my people. Nothing is ever gonna change until we change the national religion from voodoo to Christianity. Its a spiritual war in Haiti.

[spakdiddy]

that is seriously fucked up, i mean they actually eat dirt! i am ashamed as a human being. i wish i could do something.

[One4TheCause88]

@awgu What do you expect from a Haitian?

[awgu]

@HighDef21 You're stupid.

[ryoga999]

@ADVERTlSEMENT the basic idea in that is that with a bigger family, they can have more kids get more jobs, this will lead on with the parents getting money once they are too old to work, it happens in africa as well and actually in many poverted areas

[Aelita8788]

@spakdiddy Your CAN

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@baddbabegurl

Help yourself and God will help you. And don't forget to have less children.

[leemcumiskey]

@spakdiddy

Eat some dirt.

[ADVERTlSEMENT]

Why have that many children when you're poor as hell...

[clairedorante]

triste, tres triste!!

[GlitterXStarzz]

niggers fail at everything no matter where they are- africa, detroit, or haiti.