Poor Haitians are now eating mud because of heartless American biofuel
mandates!
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Poor Haitians Resort to Eating Dirt
By JONATHAN M. KATZ - Jan 29, 2008
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) -- It was lunchtime in one of Haiti's worst
slums, and Charlene Dumas was eating mud. 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.
