It’s Hard to Even Be a Vegetarian in Today’s Venezuela

Having any type of diet in Venezuela has actually become quite difficult. Beef and chicken are an essential part of the daily diet of many Venezuelans. As the year unfolds, food products are becoming less and less available and becoming the focus of people’s daily concerns, prompted by agonizingly long lines and a constant increase in food prices. Though arepas help, the truth is that very few people eat arepas made out of natural corn flour. Harina Pan, the flour produced by the company Empresa Polar, has gone up in price considerably and it’s a highly-refined flour that is left with very few of the nutrients found in maize. The same is true of the processed flours produced by State companies. These, instead of going up in price, have simply vanished from the market. More…