Over the past month, wheat prices all over the world has soared giving new meaning to the term white gold. It now comes stuffed in your samosa, sprinkled on your pinipig crunch, rolled in your sushi, stacked in your granola bar… you get the point.
Needless to say, it is this great demand for rice that makes it such a valued commodity. In the olden days, it was even offered as dowry and exchanged for gold. Even in Biblical times, Joseph son of Jacob, saw a vision of famine and told Pharaoh to stock piles of grain. Together they hoarded wheat and raised global food prices 30%, thereby fulfilling Joseph’s vision. After 7 years, Joseph was reunited with his family after selling rice to them.
Man’s reaction to shortage is certainly no different today than it was then, giving rice the ability to strike us from all corners. For one, rice already does not give enough supplement to the body, it is high in carbs and sugar, high in calories, and does not have much vitamins or protein. So, plainly, it is overpriced junk food. Man would actually be healthier eating Sun Chips - at least that is made with Solar Energy.
With the current pricetag on wheat, we should probably embrace the idea that rice should not be a staple food on our tables. People would certainly find themselves fuller and healthier eating salads, fruits or veggies, some of which could grown at our backyard.
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2 Comments, Comment or Ping
xio
Good luck arguing with stubborn Filipino appetite-slash-mentality. ;p
Apr 24th, 2008
bambit
I quit eating rice for about six months. Felt good eating just veggies and fruit. Then the prices of veggies and fruit started to go up so I was obligated to supplement the shrinking diet with just a teeny bit of rice to tide me over. Yeah right. Now I’m back a little under my what used to be normal consumption. The thing is, whether I eat rice or not, the corrupt officials in our government is still going to use it (and everything else it can) to create an illusion of panic (which is slowly becoming a real one) to divert attention away from their shennanigans. Of course that’s got no relation to my (no longer) diet…
May 2nd, 2008