No one in DR should go hungry!

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I was at the drive through of Banco Popular in Sosua today. While waiting to complete my transaction I looked ahead of me and saw a coconut palm, avocado tree, and mango tree...all with fruit and all accessible by anyone who was really hungry!

Besides the 100's of thousands of fruit trees, yucca, habichuelas, yautia seem to grow like weeds here...at least on the North Coast. I hope people who don't have money for food at least have access to these things...
 

jstarebel

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I think that in todays world, NO ONE should go hungry. All one has to do is look at the sheer amount of food thrown away every day. I do understand why, and I understand corporate profits very well, but it just seems to me that with all that the world has now with technology, and so much money, futuristic weapons to kill off millions, billion dollar aircraft, private spacecraft, computers in every home, and everybody walking around with their nose stuck in a "smart phone, that people of the world should be able to at least eat and feed their children and not have to go hungry?? IMHO, That would be a "Giant Leap For Mankind".
 

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No, people in the DR don't go hungry!
Their diet is not good from a nutritional standpoint, high fat,salt,sugar, too many highly refined "Carbs", but thier bellies are pretty full.
Many children are anemic.
"Star" this is about "Hunger in the DR", not asking for your socialist progressive rant about "World Hunger"!
That should be posted on,
"It's the Capitalist PIG RICH GUY's Fault.com"!
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JMB773

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No, people in the DR don't go hungry!
Their diet is not good from a nutritional standpoint, high fat,salt,sugar, too many highly refined "Carbs", but thier bellies are pretty full.
Many children are anemic.
"Star" this is about "Hunger in the DR", not asking for your socialist progressive rant about "World Hunger"!
That should be posted on,
"It's the Capitalist PIG RICH GUY's Fault.com"!
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So your telling me NO child in DR goes to bed hungry??????? You should really think about running for office in DR. I think you will fit right in.

Wait putting food on the table is NOT a issue NO WHERE on the whole entire island????????????

BTW If every child belly is full 24/7 in DR why wouldn't the Haitians want to live there. Sadly even in the USA some children go to bed hungry but NOT in DR. Thanks CC
 

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So your telling me NO child in DR goes to bed hungry??????? You should really think about running for office in DR. I think you will fit right in.

Wait putting food on the table is NOT a issue NO WHERE on the whole entire island????????????

BTW If every child belly is full 24/7 in DR why wouldn't the Haitians want to live there. Sadly even in the USA some children go to bed hungry but NOT in DR. Thanks CC

There is a family in my house right now that live in Campo VillaBao............
Father is an HONEST National police officer in Santiago and barely makes a living...........
I have know there entire family for 8 years, and many of them are lucky to eat one meal a day..........
Made homemade spaghetti for them, and a big pot of homemade chicken soup.............
Loaded with chicken.............
On the average, I am feeding someone in this family of many,..... every other day............
THERE ARE A LOT OF PEOPLE HERE THAT DON'T EAT EVERYDAY............
AND GO TO BED WITH THEIR STOMACHS EMPTY..........

B in Santiago
 

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Those trees, most assuredly, belong to someone and often the fruit is waiting to mature and the owner will sell all on the tree, or they are waiting for family to come and share in the bounty. So, sometimes what looks like "free for the taking" is not. Even way out in the campo, people know whose tree belongs to who. It's a shame that often the early fruit falls to the ground and spoils, but it all depends on the owner.
 

Criss Colon

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"Under Nourished" does not mean "Under Fed"!
"JMB" go volunteer at a food pantry on the South Side of Chicago, we are talking about the DR, you don't live HERE!
The main reason Dominicans ALL get enough to eat is because they ALL "SHARE" food with each other!
If there is not enough to eat in your house you go eat at your "Aunt's" house etc.
There may be some kids that are hungry, but only because "Papi" is not in the home, and/or "Presidente" is the priority!
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Most of the population in the Dominican Republic is urban. The National Office of Statistics 2010 Census says that three of every four inhabitants in the country live in cities. In cities there are less fruit trees. So I would think there is no reason for people in the rural areas to go hungry but the situation is different in the cities. I agree with the points made above that there is lack of information on what makes a good diet. Fruit stands on many city blocks ensure the better nutrition of many who snack on fruit.
 

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"Under Nourished" does not mean "Under Fed"!
"JMB" go volunteer at a food pantry on the South Side of Chicago, we are talking about the DR, you don't live HERE!
The main reason Dominicans ALL get enough to eat is because they ALL "SHARE" food with each other!
If there is not enough to eat in your house you go eat at your "Aunt's" house etc.
There may be some kids that are hungry, but only because "Papi" is not in the home, and/or "Presidente" is the priority!
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Not this time your nonsense will not get deflected with you typical clich? " I LIVE HERE" Tell us about EVERY single person in DR with FULL bellies as you stated in you post????

I bet every single poster have a story about a person or family not having any food or enough food. I myself have hundreds of stories about Dominicans struggling to put food on the table in the "CAPITAL" not just in the campo.
 

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"20/20 Dominican "VISION" from Chicago?????
Priceless!
I USED to live in Illinois too.
But I don't post on "Chicago1.com" because of that!
Nor do I CARE TO!!!!!!!
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JMB773

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"20/20 Dominican "VISION" from Chicago?????
Priceless!
I USED to live in Illinois too.
But I don't post on "Chicago1.com" because of that!
Nor do I CARE TO!!!!!!!
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Once again tell me about the entire country of the Dominican Republic who do not have issue with food???? I know there are a large percent of Dominicans who do not eat a balance diet, but you did not say that you stated NO Dominican go hungry and I do not believe that to be true.

Maybe you know something I do not know about DR and that is why I am asking what made you state " No Dominican go hungry" when I have clearly witnessed and heard stories that contradict what you believed to be true about hunger in the DR.

I am not saying DR was ever on the level of Ethiopia in the 80's, but people did, do and will continue to struggle with putting food on the table in DR.

How do you not know this????? It is simple math. A family of 6 or 7 will struggle putting food on the table more so then a family of three. You can't go to tia or comadre house all the time because the are faced with the same struggle.

You can always tell when somebody in Santo Domingo Este received money from Western Union because they shop more freely because it is almost always more money then they make or have in DR.
 
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Any blanket statement like "No one goes hungry" or "Everyone always gets enough to eat" are sure to be wrong.

Fruit trees are great, but very few produce fruit all year, even in the tropics. The basis of the Dominican diet is rice. Plantains are also a major source of food, followed by yuca (casaba, mandioca, it has many names), yautia and other root crops.
The diet of poor campesinos varies with the seasons.
 

greydread

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It's their own fault. They should get up off their lazy behinds and clean toilets, give massages, do hair and nails and sing and dance for the pleasure of the tourists and ex-patriots, providing "extra" services as required for 20 hours a day.

If they weren't so lazy they wouldn't be so hungry. "Free queso" spoils quickly in the tropics.
 

jstarebel

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Ya know, the one thing I love about the DR most is how helpful people are to one another especially in the barrios and campos. Its like nobody here can make it on their own, but together they survive. Problem is that no one can help everyone..
 

mofongoloco

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there is a difference beteween food insecurity and hunger. Not that CC nneds anyone to defend him, but I think folks are being a little punctilious in his generalization. Obviously he nor anyoone would say 100% of the people get a full belly 100% of the time. as usual folks have pointed out the unique ways dominicans problkem solve. going to aunties house is quite common, I am sure. Says the tourist. Of interest, why is rice a staple? trade dependency?