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Anu maheshwari
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Forced to eat Mud Cookies
January 31, 2008 - 12:41 PM
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Haiti's poorest reduced to eating dirt
January 29, 2008 12:18pm
EXTREME poverty is forcing Haiti's poorest people to eat dirt.
Mud cookies - made from dirt, salt and vegetable shortening - have become popular among Haitians desperate to stave off hunger, the Associated Press reports.
The dirt cookies
The cookies - which are occasionally used by pregnant women and children as an antacid and source of calcium - have become a regular meal.
Haiti is the poorest country in the western hemisphere and one of the most disadvantaged in the world.
Seventy-six per cent of the population lives on less than $2.25 a day, and 55 per cent live on less than $1.13 a day.
Chronic malnutrition is widespread and diarrhoea - an easily-preventable disease - kills one in five children under the age of five.
Haitian doctors have warned that relying on the mud cookies will lead to malnutrition.
“Trust me, if I see someone eating those cookies, I will discourage it,” said Gabriel Thimothee, executive director of Haiti’s health ministry.
The mud cookies sell for around five cents each, compared to 60 cents for two cups of rice.
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Devin
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Re: Forced to eat Mud Cookies
February 13, 2008 - 10:21 AM
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this is horrible! my social justice class and i are doing a study on countries that should be focused on for help from the United Nation with achieveing the millenium goals. please i am willing to discuss this topic, write back if possible and if u have any pictures please let me know.
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