DAGDAG

If you see it my way - no emotions, I have none.

What I am saying here is - we can have our own very personal participation in applying the sanctions - every one 92 million Filipinos can participate. That is what you mean here:

............ tsk...tsk...ang good governance is dagdag, hindi bawas.

Yes, Dagdag indeed. Dagdag to your collections - Filipino-made products. Simply MADE IN THE PHILIPPINES!!! Dagdag sa kita ng local producers! Ang baboy, 16% of pork are imported! That is more than P2,000,000,000 pesos! Tapos, come to know ay BOTCHANG pala - double dead, expired, mabaho, though frozen! That's why I don't buy pork anymore, my husband does and everytime he does, I impose a sex strike! until I see no more in the freezer.

Again, DAGDAG sa piggery business income. That is why we have our own piggery! Think of having 200 pigs - maliit lang iyan sa karamihan ng may piggery. You have 30 inayins that bear 12 piglets (on average) every 4 to 5 months. Multiply 12 x 30 mother pigs or just 20 mother pigs x 12 = 240 piglets that you don't have to buy at P2,500 each (saves you P600,000 capital for your piglet stock). Or stagger the birth spacings of your 30 inayins so that every 4-5 months may nanganganak. I am talking from experience and actual piggery business. BUT HOW MANY OF YOU WILL EVEN BOTHER TO USE THESE FIGURES TO VISUALIZE WHAT YOU GAIN AND WHAT YOU LOSE.

Consider your feeds which you can do yourself given a proven formula. If you don't, you stand to cost you feeds P125,000 a year, water and electricity P15,000 a month, your caretaker P4,000 a month excluding you supply the rice, cooking gas and water. Vet fees and regular inspection is borne by the feed supplier. These are your costs = P228,000 a year!

Here's the DAGDAG - when you harvest your pigs at wholesale price, every 4 months - we maintain their age to 4 months only otherwise, we lose out in feed cost. Say you sell 80 pigs at P120/kilo live weight, each averaging 70 kilos. Compute it - 80 pigs x 70 kilos = 5,600 kilos x P120 = P672,000 x 3 harvests a year = P2,016,000 a year (P2MILLION, 16 THOUSAND PESOS A YEAR!) A Joke??? Hahahaha, you haven't tried, that's why!

Here's your BAWAS - P2,016,000 cost of local pig supply bawas from P2billion cost of pork imported = need 2,000 pig raisers nationwide to avert the pork importation. Means further, that 2,000 Filipino hog raisers will benefit profiting for themselves P2,016,000 less cost = P1,788,000 PROFIT!!! While your caretaker manages the piggery, you are probably sitting pretty abroad laughing your way to the bank with $42,333 every year!

My email (below) is about what every Filipino can do to avert the China sanctions. Yes, true, Filipinos can survive due to resiliency but while not every Filipino can participate in choosing an envoy to China negotiations, they can do something for themselves - survive with decency and pride.

Go visit the south of Cebu traveling across mountain ranges from east to west - you see the VEGETABLE BASKET OF CEBU in the highlands where at first, you'd imagine you won't have enough water to raise vegetables. But they do raise vegetables that can feed the entire Filipino population. But why leave it to the Cebuanos to feed the nation? Each Filipino with an inch of soil in their backyards or high up behind their homes, plant vegetables for their own consumption? Is this hard to do? Is this resiliency? Yes, it is, because they would rather not plant their own food supply that can grow on soil, they'd rather sit around DOING NOTHING and yet we call it resiliency! A vice or a virtue?

Is it hard to do away with slippers MADE IN CHINA? They cause horrible skin deterioration and disease! Is it cheaper to buy a Filipino-manufactured TV than buy from China? Or tile your floors with tiles from China or your kitchen filled with silverware and hardware in your toolbox, your cosmetic drawers filled with nailpolish, lotions and creams, etc what have you Made in China and your shoes,your closets labelled clothes Made in China but manufactured by Filipinos locally because of the balance of trade deficit that China buys from local producers and manufacturers? What happens to shoes from Marikina? You don't find Made in the Philippines abroad, but rather Made in China? Hehehehehe, think again!

Do you find food products in shelves of shops, food stores, megaretailers abroad? Not many because these products have to go through a wholesaler and relabelled - not made in the Philippines, but Made in China!

Do you know that peanut butter Made in New Zealand is actually peanut butter Made in China? Because China has already its balance of trade maxed out so they buy the deficits of New Zealand and label peanut butter (China product) as MADE IN NEW ZEALAND? HAHAHAHAHA! Now here's the DAGDAG - buy Ludy's Peanut Butter acclaimed the best peanut butter in the world!!! Want to find out? I already did that and I buy Ludy's peanut butter.

Never mind - I am throwing pearls to the swines - these swines, however, are the pigs in our farm - they swallow the pearls and yield pearls, too.

Elsa Bayani - elsabayani2003@yahoo.com