Soaring Rice Prices
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to start with, this is really unbelievable. Rice is the main food staple we eat. Everyone eats rice. Its hard to imagine anyone not being able to eat rice. But, unfortunately, this nightmare is becoming a reality right before our very eyes. Rice prices have been staggeringly increasing DAILY! i mean how can that be? If you think about it, rice is like the cheapest food we can afford right? But even the simplest and most humble of Filipinos cannot afford to buy rice anymore. Staple rice is sold at P45-P51 pesos, the poorest of our nation cannot afford to buy at this price. Unbelievable isn't it? With the meager wages they earn, rice has become a "delicacy for the rich" in their eyes. Compare the rising prices of rice that increase DAILY, and the wages of Filipinos that do not increase proportionally with the food prices, in either short-term or long-term effects, they will starve and rice will be a far away dream for them. The wages they earn cannot keep up with the frantically changing prices of food that they need to survive. For every 10% increase in food prices, 2.3 million Filipinos fall into poverty. If this keeps going on, every single Filipino will live in poverty without being able to eat the simplest of foods...rice. Some have opted to substitute rice for other crops like corn grits. This may be a viable option, but it cannot give us what rice can give us. We cannot ignore that rice is important for us to live. The government has been producing Genetically Modified Rice and those enhanced ones with more vitamins and stuff, yet they are so highly priced that they do no good because the average Filipino cannot even afford to purchase them. Our nation is being affected not only by the dwindling food supplies, but poverty as well as corruption have been working hand in hand towards the inevitable downfall of our country.The Philippines is one of the biggest if not the biggest importer of rice in the whole world, yet how come we cannot feed our own people?
2 comments:
What we should do for the meantime is to save as much rice as possible. There are a number of ways in which we can do this.
1. Follow the example set by McDonald's. (Buy half rice to save rice) This conserves rice because we won't feel obligated to finish what we cooked/ordered.
2. Eat pasta. Italian cuisine such as pizza and pasta are usually consumed without rice.
3. Well, just save rice. Do not cook too much.
well.. the truth is..
we can save rice by not wasting it. How?
In restaurants, most of the people leaves leftovers and even our homes we leave leftovers.
and what we do in leftovers?
WE THROW THEM RIGHT?
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