"Haiti's poor resort to eating mud"

[Lancer]

http://news.yahoo.com/nphotos/Haiti-...08haitidirtmud;_ylt=AnNEuA1oOgGg_MOhMymzZugBxg8F

"A woman prepare cookies made of dirt, water, salt and butter on the the roof of Fort Dimanche, once a prison where is said the late dictator Francois Duvalier tortured his enemies, in Port-au-Prince, Thursday Nov. 29 2007. Pregnant women and children have long prized the dirt as a rich source of calcium and an effective antacid, but for some in the country's most desperate quarters, where thousands buckle under rising food prices and rampant unemployment, mud has become a daily staple."

Yikes, can people survive on mud?


When will people learn to stop having kids?

[Nugog]

Re: "Haiti's poor resort to eating mud"

Originally posted by Lancer
but for some in the country's most desperate quarters, where thousands buckle under rising food prices and rampant unemployment

This is more relevant than

Originally posted by Lancer
When will people learn to stop having kids?

[Heresson]

Re: "Haiti's poor resort to eating mud"

When will people learn to stop having kids?

heterosexual sex should be outlawed

[Nugog]

Re: Re: "Haiti's poor resort to eating mud"

Originally posted by Heresson


heterosexual sex should be outlawed

[Heresson]

why?

[Heraclitus]

I'd phrase the question differently:

When will developed countries provide poorer ones with contraception?

[Proteus_MST]

They already do to a certain amount.

The more important questions are:
When will the pope stop preaching contraception is a sin
and when will the richer countries provide the poorer countries with an annuity asssurance,
so that the people in poorer countries are really encouraged to take the contraceptives instead of willingly have large families out of fear of commiting a sin and beecause they need kids to provide them with food and the like when their parents grow too old to work.

[Omni Rex Draconis]

Yes, the Pope is a dogmatic fool, but overpopulation is not really their problem. Haiti was once a rich and verdant island, which could easily support their current density. Like most Caribbean islands, they could do well with tourism and those who wish to invest "offshore".

As for foreign aid, Wikipedia says it is already accounting for 30-40% of the national government's income. It threatens Haiti's self-determination and puts them at risk of becoming addicted to aid.

What they need is leadership, and how do we give them that?

For now, at least, can we send more food so I don't have to hear that my fellow humans are forced to eat dirt cookies?

[Kidlicious]

Originally posted by Heraclitus
I'd phrase the question differently:

When will developed countries provide poorer ones with contraception?

I'm pretty sure that the problem isn't too many brown people. More like too much oppression.

[Heresson]

Give them computer games and internet. Most will end up playing HoMM, Civ etc instead of having sex, and if they think of it, they will search for porn and look in disgust at their own, ugly women / men.
I think I will send this brilliant idea to UN.

[Riesstiu IV]

This is pretty typical but Haiti's food supply is artificially limited by a corrupt government of greedy kleptocrats as in most Third World ****holes.

They're eating dirt cookies because their government won't allow them access to anything else.

Not that sending them food/money will help anyway because the same ****heads in power will just keep it for themselves. So really, there's nothing to do but thank baby Jesus on your hands and knees that you weren't born in some horrible nightmare country like Haiti or Zimbabwe.

[Proteus_MST]

Originally posted by Heresson
Give them computer games and internet. Most will end up playing HoMM, Civ etc instead of having sex, and if they think of it, they will search for porn and look in disgust at their own, ugly women / men.
I think I will send this brilliant idea to UN.

Might work.
But take away their ability to send and receive eMails.
One Nigeria with a thriving scam mail industry is enough

[Whoha]

Re: "Haiti's poor resort to eating mud"

Originally posted by Lancer
http://news.yahoo.com/nphotos/Haiti-...08haitidirtmud;_ylt=AnNEuA1oOgGg_MOhMymzZugBxg8F

"A woman prepare cookies made of dirt, water, salt and butter on the the roof of Fort Dimanche, once a prison where is said the late dictator Francois Duvalier tortured his enemies, in Port-au-Prince, Thursday Nov. 29 2007. Pregnant women and children have long prized the dirt as a rich source of calcium and an effective antacid, but for some in the country's most desperate quarters, where thousands buckle under rising food prices and rampant unemployment, mud has become a daily staple."

Yikes, can people survive on mud?


When will people learn to stop having kids?

Some parasites create a desire to eat dirt for some strange reason. leading to more parasites.

[Heresson]

With such wise parasites, why are human Haitians failing so miserably to create a well-functioning society?

[Barnabas]

Originally posted by Riesstiu IV
This is pretty typical but Haiti's food supply is artificially limited by a corrupt government of greedy kleptocrats as in most Third World ****holes.

They're eating dirt cookies because their government won't allow them access to anything else.

Not that sending them food/money will help anyway because the same ****heads in power will just keep it for themselves. So really, there's nothing to do but thank baby Jesus on your hands and knees that you weren't born in some horrible nightmare country like Haiti or Zimbabwe.

Haiti is more like fifth world