Are Filipinos only good for imported bukbuk-infested rice? Or did some people make money on the latest NFA import? Did we pay for good commercial rice, but did NFA agree to receive old stock rice about to be reclassified as animal feed?
The sight of all those little critters running all over the sacks of NFA rice being unloaded from a ship at Subic is appalling. So now the agriculture secretary is saying the rice can still be eaten after fumigation.
Fumigation involves spraying chemicals to kill those bugs. I don’t know about Duterte’s top agriculture official, but any human being should have a choice not to eat rice tainted with fumigation chemicals.
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