April 22, 2008


Heartbreaking

In Haiti, where three-quarters of the population earns less than $2 a day and one in five children is chronically malnourished, the one business booming amid all the gloom is the selling of patties made of mud, oil and sugar, typically consumed only by the most destitute.

“It’s salty and it has butter and you don’t know you’re eating dirt,” said Olwich Louis Jeune, 24, who has taken to eating them more often in recent months. “It makes your stomach quiet down.”

Link (via Andrew Sullivan via Marginal Revolution)

posted by Joshua Conner in humans, international, society 

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2 Responses to “Heartbreaking”

  1. Joshua Conner on April 22nd, 2008 at 2:32 pm

    I wanted to put it in the “recipes” category, too, but I just didn’t have the heart.

  2. Cindy Scroggins on April 22nd, 2008 at 2:53 pm

    So sad. The people of Haiti have suffered for centuries, and the US has played a dubious role in that country’s affairs. The men, women and children of Haiti deserve a far better life than this.

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