Some of Haiti's Poor Eat Dirt to Stay Alive

I had seen this somewhere else on the web, but caught it again on Stereohyped:

Original AP article:

Why do we allow this to happen? Again, I think of Madonna's $10,000/month Kabbalah water. Or...my Lucky Jeans...ouch

I'm gonna find more orgs to list under my "Take Action" link which is dreadfully anemic.