Power of the Daily Bread

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Food is something everyone can have access to, if not, there would be changes

in behavior. The amount and quality of accessible goods directly influences all members

of society, even the kind of food can change the opinions of the masses. What makes

everyone calm and less savage is the availability of food and the ability of others to

make food.

Local consumable resources are top priorities for self-sustainability. The supply

of rice for example, can become insufficient in a state of calamity, not primarily because

of the demand, it is because of the difficulty producing an absurd amount of rice in such

times. The effects of natural phenomena are something mostly a government can

manage, returning to the example, the Philippine government ensures a steady supply

of rice by importing more of it (Mendoza, 2013), that is the government’s response to

the increasing demand and increasing price of rice, this is however, in my opinion, not a

long-term solution, my judgement would be stimulations for our local farmers. Besides

equipment, good education and land ownership are great realizations. Genuine agrarian

reforms however are a problem this country has been facing for decades (centuries if

the colonial past is considered). These core problems do not just affect rice production,

but all major processed crops some of which is directed to meat and poultry

productions.
 The Philippine government is not holding the sharp end of the knife, it grips the

two edges of a sword, one being natural disasters and the other is its elite society, both

of which play the game of monopoly that changes food supply in the Philippines.