Bolivia Takes McDonalds Off The Country's Menu...

It's said that the thirty something thousand McDonald restaurants around the world serve up to three hundred million people a day.
And the average McD serves eight people every minute they're open.
There are many obscene facts and overweight figures and fallacies about the company but let's get back to Bolivia where, as in many other countries, good food is prepared with loving care, attention to health and proper cooking times.
Bolivians relish a food philosophy that includes fresh ingredients and patience.
And the Latin American country has been saying no to McD for years. Finally the fast food giant has had to acknowledge a bottom line that was redder than a very rare steak and taken their junk food elsewhere.
Bolivia unlike many countries who have lost themselves in the fast and convenient world of packaged food-like products, just wasn't prepared to accept the McD culture.
The Bolivian rejection of McDonalds and the country's philosophy that fast food is a very poor substitute for the real thing is a great example for the rest of the world to follow.
But of course they won't...

This Bolivian Lawyer Builds Homes For The Poor Out Of Recycled Plastic Bottles...

The Bolivian lawyer or perhaps it should be the Garbage Lawyer Ingrid Vaca Diez, is on a mission to build better homes for the poor.
In Bolivia, nearly fifty percent of the population lives below the poverty line. Housing's a huge problem here as many are unable to live in suitable accommodation.
Once again we see necessity being the mother of invention and with meagre funds and little support, Ingrid creates homes out of the only resource she can find in abundance.
So far she's designed and built ten homes, with six being in Warnes, a town in Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia, and another in Roldan, a town in Santa Fe province, Argentina.
The bottles are filled with dirt, those are her bricks and her houses may use thirty six thousand each. To colour her homes, this resourceful woman uses a combination of expired milk powder, horse manure, linseed oil, cattle blood, cane molasses or just
whatever she can find.
The floors are made from chopped up old tyres.
There's more about Ingrid's mission here in a twenty five minute video.
Perhaps more lawyers will give up their day jobs and build houses for the poor.
The world might be a better place...