This woman has some strange ideas about children in Haiti. Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian, hosts of The Young Turks, break it down. Tell us what you think in the comment section below. https://www.tytnetwork.com/join

“A meteorologist claimed in a weather segment about Hurricane Matthew that hungry Haitian children were eating trees and contributing to deforestation in the country.

Haiti and Cuba have been hit particularly hard by the storm, which has forced mass evacuations and has resulted in at least five deaths in Haiti.

During a weather segment Monday, The Weather Channel’s Jennifer Delgado talked about Hurricane Matthew’s path through Haiti, as well as the issue of deforestation the country faces.

Delgado first highlighted the differences in tree growth between Haiti and the Dominican Republic, with whom it shares a border.

“You notice what’s different in this NASA image, you see all brown here, and then green to the east,” she said. “That’s because this whole area has been essentially deforested.”

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