For quite some time, but with renewed vigor, in the last six months or so, a few unscrupulous news writers have been hammering the following headlines into the minds of their readers: Haitians are so poor, they eat dirt. Mud: staple diet in Haiti. Haitians resort to eating dirt. Half of Haitians now literally eating mud to survive.

How about the thousands of foreigners (Americans, Canadians, French and others) who call Haiti home? What are they eating? Are they also partaking of this staple diet? Continue reading “Haitians Do Not Eat Mud” »