20 April 2009

bite the dust(?)

"bite the dust" is surely the famous quote of marvin the martian. while we're here enjoying our choco chip cookies or perhaps graham crackers with some caramel frappe, people in Haiti literally eat mud cookies as remedy for their hunger pangs. i found this article here.
and maybe the least that we can do is to stop eating when we're full and never waste/left over your food such as (oh well, this is my personal experience) rice on diet purpose.

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti - 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.


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