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R I C E
THE RICE
YOU THROW AWAY
Open your book
on PAGE 257
A family of five cooks a kilogram of rice in a pot for
breakfast. Somebody forgets about it and it burns—the
rice at the bottom of the pot becomes almost inedible.
The kids don’t finish their meals. Leftover rice is all
over their plates and in the pot, which will sit in the
kitchen for hours. At the end of the day, the family
throws away a plastic bag full of burned and spoiled
rice. This is how a family as well as many households
and restaurants in the Philippines waste this high-
demand political commodity, which feeds half of the
world’s population.
At first, this fact may not sit well with the Philippines’
annual per capita consumption of 120 kilograms, or
about 5 cups, of rice per day. Why buy that much rice for
the table when a significant amount is thrown away,
taking with it all the nutrients and energy that rice can
give? National Food Authority Administrator Angelito
Banayo has a term for this behavior—takaw-tingin
(literally, takaw pertains to gluttony, tingin means sight;
the concept refers to impulse buying or acquiring at the
sight of things desirable). But, what seems to be wrong
with a few grains of rice left on the plate or in the pot?
Research shows that the Philippines, the world’s
biggest rice importer for several years, wastes rice
that is worth at least US$ 535,000 (23 million pesos)
every day, or 8.4 billion pesos a year—enough to feed
4.3 million people.
 In most restaurants, leftover
cooked food for the day is
thrown away and becomes
spoiled in the trash bin.

a. Fresh
b. Rotten
c. New
 A family eats a kilo of rice a
day. Their monthly
consumption of rice is more
than half a sack.

a. The use of something

b. The plan of something
c. The wastage of something
 Meat, vegetables, and eggs
are the basic commodities
found in the market.

a. Products
b. Materials
c. Objects
 Some people deal with
serious gluttony, especially
when they eat or drink a lot
during special occasions

a. Generosity
b. Greed
c. Profit
 Some people deal with
serious gluttony, especially
when they eat or drink a lot
during special occasions

a. Generosity
b. Greed
c. Profit
1. Why is rice important?
2. In some instances, what happened
when one buys too much rice?
3. How is rice wasted?
4. Is it wrong to leave a few grains of
rice in the plate?
GRAPHS
Graphs show relationship between a set
of ideas or numbers in which it is
determined by a set of points.
Percentage of Consumed Rice in the Philippines
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Luzon Visayas Mindanao

Percentage of Consumed Rice in the
Philippines
THE RICE
YOU THROW AWAY
Study Conjunctions
on page 265