Got rice?
March 22, 2008
by Alex
1 comment
Scr*w this “unprecedented” rice shortage. This is the kind of shit that you can’t blame to the Spanish, Japanese, and American occupation or to globalization anymore. The Philippines as one of the supposed top rice producers of the world is having a huge shortage of rice to feed our population. We’re the home of the International Rice Research Institute and we have a rice shortage. No pointing out of ironies needed. This is a case of SATFU (situation abnormal totally f*cked up).
The continued existence of haciendas and the failure of the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program (CARP) is something that we can’t really blame on to others. Sure, we can still point out the whole history of agrarian f*ck ups our country has to go through but it has been more than 100 years since Spain left our soil so we really can’t still blame the encomienda system for our agricultural woes. The failures in agrarian reforms are failure of governance.
