The price of rice, the people's staple food, has doubled in the last year. This increase naturally has forced poverty-stricken residents to look for substitutes for rice.
Apparently in the past they have baked “dirt biscuits” using salt and vegetable shortening along with clay from a nearby area. The clay has some nutrients in it, so it is not entirely filler. The problem tho is that the supply curve of clay is not horizontal; so with this increased demand for the clay, its price has risen too — by 40% during the same period.
The dirt is no longer dirt-cheap - and the poor are just too poor to eat dirt.
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Awww that is so sad. Laine x
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