Live Like You Were Dying

05 February 2008, 9:09 am (Tue)

Eat Mud in Haiti

Filed under: News

This is a mud cookies, a saucer-shaped biscuits made from dried yellow clay mixed with water, salt and vegetable shortening. It become the alternate substitute for foods among Haitians who desperate to stave off hunger.

The impoverished Haitians (a nation in the Caribbean Island) are increasingly resorting to eating mud pies as the food prices soaring. 

 

Most of the Haiti people today turned into eating mud cake. They first strain the mud to remove stones in it, put some mixture of vegetables and then they let it dry under the sun. Though this mud cake is rich in calcium, eating it in regular basis is not good for their health, said the health specialists. Today, this is the food being eaten by these poorest people in the hemisphere.

 

The mud cookies sell for around 5 cents each compared to 60 cents for 2 cups of rice. Relying on the mud cookies will lead to mulnutrition and diarrhoea. 
________________________________________________________________ 

It is so horrible to see how others struggle to stay alive in the real world wherelse guy like me complained like no tomorrow just because my donuts taste a little bit hard in my mouth. emoticon 






















Get free blog up and running in minutes with Blogsome
Theme designed by Hadley Wickham