Yes, what looks like women making mud pies is actually Haitians making ?cookies? out of an earthen mixture. The recipe for “Bon Bon Terre” is passed down from generation to generation indicating how long the hunger has eaten away at this destitute country’s people.
Dirt Cookie Recipe
In this desperately poor nation, women stir a dirt cookie batter made from a mixture of salt, water, a bit of vegetable shortening, and occasionally a little sugar. Then the women cross an open sewer to leave the dirt cookies to dry in the sun. This?video?speaks of humans
“…forced to eat “dirt on top of other dirt and filth.”
The mixture is sold in $5 sacks that the women are told come from the mountains and are rich in minerals and vitamins. Pregnant women eat them, because they believe the cookies contain calcium. Dirt cookies are hard to swallow and have almost zero nutrition.
Gnawing Hunger
According to?Joel Boutrique?who is with the UN Mission,
“Dirt cookies are a necessity for families that must live on $1.00 a day, because imported food is too expensive.”
You rarely see an adult eating a dirt cookie, because they are embarrassed by their poverty. The children, on the other hand, wonder why anyone is so interested in something that is a part of their daily lives. About 25 percent of those children are chronically undernourished.
Nutrition Programs
The U.S. UN Ambassador to Haiti, Janet Sanderson, speaks about the ?widespread hunger? in the country. Yes, she has brought congress members down to see the extent of that hunger. Yet nothing changes.
The dirt cookies make the people sick, but ?not sick way it makes people used to it.?
Dirt cookies make me want to cry. Watch this video:
h/t Elite Readers
