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people in haiti are eating dirt. | by Wadner Pierre, HaitiAnalysis.com |
| Wednesday, 06 February 2008 |
 To stave off starvation in Haiti, women buy clay trucked in from the Central Plateau, then carry buckets of the dirt and water up ladders to the roof of the former prison at Fort Dimanche. “They strain out rocks and clumps on a sheet, and stir in shortening and salt,” reports AP. “Then they pat the mixture into mud cookies and leave them to dry under the scorching sun. The finished cookies are carried in buckets to markets or sold on the streets. A reporter sampling a cookie found that it had a smooth consistency and sucked all the moisture out of the mouth as soon as it touched the tongue. For hours, an unpleasant taste of dirt lingered. … Marie Noel, 40, sells the cookies in a market to provide for her seven children. Her family also eats them. ‘I'm hoping one day I'll have enough food to eat, so I can stop eating these,’ she said. ‘I know it's not good for me.’” Photo: Wadner Pierre |
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