“Well, yeah, it’s very inconvenient. Lalo na for a person like me, napakakuripot. If I find that what I want to eat is too expensive, I don’t eat na lang. It’s very inconvenient. I’d rather not spend na lang than even eat. I just wait na lang till I get home.”
– Nichole Alexis Reyes (II AB EU)
“I don’t trust the government if it’s really happening. Yeah, maybe, but there’s inflation almost everywhere. So it could be just one of the government’s propaganda to divert the people’s attention on the corruption.”
– Ma. Regina de Vera (III BFA TA)
“Actually, I think I’m more affected by how other people are affected by the crisis, than how it directly affects me. But even in an indirect sense, the crisis makes me think about how else I can help the country.”
– Margarita Patricia Valdes (IV AB Comm), Ateneo Student Leaders Assembly program director
“I eat home a lot more. Mahal na kasi kumain sa labas.”
– Maxine Rosario Labrador (III BS MIS)
“I honestly don’t believe that there’s a rice crisis, so I’m not really affected by it because I am…I still have a lot of access to…or I think it’s more of the price than the actual quantity.”
– Miguel Antonio Lizada, English Department lecturer
“Though my family still consumes the same amount of rice, we’ve definitely had higher expenses, so we have to cut down on other expenses to accommodate our staple food, which is rice. It’s also puzzling to think that other Asian countries are exporting rice to our country, when the International Rice Research Institute is based here.”
– Ione Abergele Salud (IV AB Eu)
“Totoo ba? I went to Nueva Ecija… dahil sa SA namin, and ang daming truck ng bigas. So, I doubt. Yun lang.”
– Ricson Chua (III BS CoE)
“Apektado talaga ako lalo na’t ako lang ang nagwo-work sa family. Masyado nang tumataas ang mga bilihin tapos hindi naman tinataas ang salary. Ang hirap na mag-budget para sa pamilya.”
– Merezell Almucera, A-Shop clerk
“The food crisis may not be affecting us in our daily routine, in the way we eat, the way we buy food or even in the way allocate our money, but it is affecting our consciousness as individuals in our society by making issues that would seem irrelevant to us relevant.”
– Denis Cedric Ragos Ty (IV BS CTM)
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