Wrong Rice Mostly

[JJReyes]

The carbohydrate content that converts to sugar is much higher in white rice, this can lead to diabetes....

 

Most of the rice planted today is Genetically Modified Organism (GMO) or hybrid engineered to grow faster and to achieve a higher per hectare yield. It also has a higher sugar content. The same thing with most of the corn grown whether to feed humans or cattle. Ever wonder why human beings are getter fatter and being diagnosed with diabetes. Most Native Americans have a large number of diabetics within their tribal group, extending down to children as young as five years old. I believe the highest are Pinal Indians in Arizona. 50% of their tribe members are diabetic.

 

We no longer purchase Calrose, which is grown in California. Another large growing state is Florida. Our preference is rice from Thailand because, under Thai law, only GMO-Free rice can be export. Since the Philippines imports rice from Thailand, look for the "Made in Thailand" label.

[Thomas]

Also there are over 40 (main) types of rice and some have been developed for flooded areas and shorter growing time and resistant to insects and disease.

Yes. For instance there is one type, which have longer roots, so it can take up nutrision from soil further down, so less fertilizer need to be added.

 

But NOTE. "Brown rice" ISN'T a special RICE type,

it's a different PROCESSING method. It KEEP important parts of the rice grain UNDEPENDING of which rice type it is.

So as well as different white rice taste different, different brown rice taste different too. (I like some of the brown, dislike some.) 

The way I see it, the government or outside source with grant money will need to take over an entire province of rice production and offer 'money' to the farmers for growing 'this' rice and not using any chemicals....

I see. I haven't heared of that, but I know government have made projects where they build dams and irrigation system and then let small farmers buy small pieces each for a good price*. (But some families have let all old enough family members buy one lot each beside each other, so the family got biger farm  :)

 

*E g 40p/sqm for irrigated land suiting for rice growing in Ubay province, Bohol. 

 

 

I've often wondered why charity organisations don't buy brown unmilled rice in bulk, it must be cheaper to buy and if a starving person is offered brown rice (which is healthier for them) or nothing...... then the swift answer would be..... Yes please I'll take the brown rice.

Exactly. 

(But if I have understood corect, brown rice is milled too, but only 1 turn instead of 3, so less is taken away.)

[Bruce]

Thomas, you are an educated man and looking at the world and in this case 'rice' as an educated person would. But you can not expect 'them' to even be able to grasp the concept of nutrition. They are creatures of habit. I have sent over cans of beets, corn, peas and related things that I thought I would give to the squatters. Sure they would take the cans. But eat the contents??? NO WAY! They take the can to be polite or to sell. But the thought of eating peas or green beans is not somthing they have ever seen or would do. Rice and fish and nutrition be damned! IS their unspoken creed. 

 

To put this into proper context.... Suppose some foreigner wanted to stop a Pinoy from smoking or drinking (any alcohol drink).... What do you think his chances are?

 

You are 100% correct in your thinking..... but your application of your thinking into an actual working plan.... ain't gonna work.

 

30 years ago I was in the marine AC business and working on a new line of boats called Choy Lee Yachts that were made in Hong Kong. They were imported into Ft. Lauderdale Florida, and I was one of the guys who was preparing the yachts for sale. BIG issues. Beautiful wood work.... put together with NAILS. Simple garden hose used for fuel lines. 115v panels wired as 220v because they had never seen 115v and the list goes on.

 

Over time the company hired a Brit who traveled to Honk Kong to make production changes and he would fly over and back and work here and there. I talked to him about how stupid these Chinese were...... He said they were not stupid, just uneducated and never seen a yacht or sailed or had any concept of the BIG PICTURE. Each man had 4' of work area to complete and he DID NOT go past the 4' because no one told him to. They used nails because they had never seen a stainless steel screw and they could not grasp corrosion and what that nail would look like in 5 years of ocean air environment..... They used a garden hose for a fuel line because they did not know that a fuel pump sucks and if there is not enough fuel available, the line collapses as compared to reinforced real fuel line.

 

One of the more important things he said was.... you can NOT tell them they are doing something wrong! Instead, even if they install something upside down or backwards and your 5 yr old kid can see it but the worker can't...... Tell them they are doing a BRILLIANT JOB! However, let me show you a 'different' way to get the job done.

 

This way you are not belittling the worker, but instead, giving him new training that he may be able to use on another future job, which is how they think.

 

So, in your quest to buy land or to change the eating habits of the masses in the Philippines...... your ideas are correct. But your methodology of implimentation needs some revision. It is easier to go with the flow and make some changes here and there instead of rewriting the manual.

Edited January 30, 2013 by Bruce

[JJReyes]

One of the more important things he said was.... you can NOT tell them they are doing something wrong! Instead, even if they install something upside down or backwards and your 5 yr old kid can see it but the worker can't...... Tell them they are doing a BRILLIANT JOB! However, let me show you a 'different' way to get the job done.

 

For a children's books ePublication project, we hired over 20 illustrators and digital colorists in the Philippines. One book was on Native American stories from the Iroquios Nation. The illustrators were excellent when it was about Native Americans in the Southwest. They had seen enough John Wayne and other cowboy films. Totems started appearing in the illustrations for Iroquios. It was difficult to explain why totems are only found in the Pacific Northwest. All the illustrations had to be redone. I told them that the head boss (me) on the project gave the wrong instructions. My stupidity so therefore, I would therefore ask for a re-do and pay for it. Otherwise, they would stop working and tell all their friends not to work for me.

 

Now to get back to rice. My wife is an American of Japanese ancestry where rice consumption is part of the meal. she told me the story of inviting two friends, her Canadian classmates from Alberta, for a homecooked Japanese meal. After being served white rice in a delicate lacquer bowl, both proceeded to sprinkle sugar and asked if there was milk in the refrigerator. Everyone's jaws around the table dropped. The family is so finicky about their rice that they pay $40 to $50 for a 10 kilo bag of short grain grown in Japan. I guess rice is like porridge for the Canadians.

[Thomas]

Thomas, you are an educated man and looking at the world and in this case 'rice' as an educated person would. But you can not expect 'them' to even be able to grasp the concept of nutrition. They are creatures of habit. I have sent over cans of beets, corn, peas and related things that I thought I would give to the squatters. Sure they would take the cans. But eat the contents??? NO WAY! They take the can to be polite or to sell. But the thought of eating peas or green beans is not somthing they have ever seen or would do. Rice and fish and nutrition be damned! IS their unspoken creed. 

Well. I believe you downvalue their thiinking capacity   :)   (of several, but sure some don't think any good).

Did they recognice your canned products?   Why cans, when they have FRESH good vegs in Phili??    :)

 

Most of my Filipin friends are (children to) farmers. Several of them have listened, when I have told which food can assist curing/reduce problem of some illnesses. Things which are normaly rather easy to find at Filipin markets. E g malunggay, mango and coconuts  :)  Some they ate allready, but needed to eat much more.  

/High blood pressure 

/Diabetes.

I don't know if they followed concerning the first two. They where to their relatives.

/Flue/fever

I suppouse she followed, because got well fast  :)

/Bedsores (at baby, who had problem with sleep positions because of done surgery.)

/Anemia

The two last told they followed and got much better soon.

To put this into proper context.... Suppose some foreigner wanted to stop a Pinoy from smoking or drinking (any alcohol drink).... What do you think his chances are?

Well. I can chose who I want to give support to, and I surely don't want to pay support to them, who afford to smoke  :mocking:     (A LITLE use of alcohol can be OK.)

You are 100% correct in your thinking..... but your application of your thinking into an actual working plan.... ain't gonna work.

Why wouldn't it work to do as other poster suggested above?  =Buy brown rice and give as support    :dance:

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Concerning the yachts:

One of the more important things he said was.... you can NOT tell them they are doing something wrong! Instead, even if they install something upside down or backwards and your 5 yr old kid can see it but the worker can't...... Tell them they are doing a BRILLIANT JOB! However, let me show you a 'different' way to get the job done.   This way you are not belittling the worker, but instead, giving him new training that he may be able to use on another future job, which is how they think.

 

As JJR said better instruct them proper BEFORE start the production   :) 

Easy done when same steps "mass production". Problematic when it's much more complicatred jobs and DIFFERENT in different steps.  (As e g programming. But I managed to get a rather good such production when I lead the outsourcing of part of developing/programming.)  Specialy hard if it's something the leader haven't education in himself, and they are hired, because they are supposed to know things better   :)    But they can be learned good functioning working methods anyway.

So, in your quest to buy land or to change the eating habits of the masses in the Philippines...... your ideas are correct. But your methodology of implimentation needs some revision. It is easier to go with the flow and make some changes here and there instead of rewriting the manual.

 

I will NOT try to change whole Philippines, but some in "my own small world"  :)

In my company I will NOT be satisfied with just small changes, because then it will still be bad when I die even if I become 100 years old  :mocking:      So I will try to find employees with good attituted and willing to learn, and go on looking until I find them  :)   They will just get test employments until I see if they suit, but I will tell too that if they suit they will get work "for ever" (= I will NOT use the loop whole many Phili employers use to save some pesos   =Fire GOOD employees too, just giving them short contracts, making the employers don't need to pay some Social Security type of fees!!!)    :angry:

[Bruce]

Thomas, you are an educated man and looking at the world and in this case 'rice' as an educated person would. But you can not expect 'them' to even be able to grasp the concept of nutrition. They are creatures of habit. I have sent over cans of beets, corn, peas and related things that I thought I would give to the squatters. Sure they would take the cans. But eat the contents??? NO WAY! They take the can to be polite or to sell. But the thought of eating peas or green beans is not somthing they have ever seen or would do. Rice and fish and nutrition be damned! IS their unspoken creed. 

Well. I believe you downvalue their thiinking capacity   :)   (of several, but sure some don't think any good).

Did they recognice your canned products?   Why cans, when they have FRESH good vegs in Phili??     :)

 

Most of my Filipin friends are (children to) farmers. Several of them have listened, when I have told which food can assist curing/reduce problem of some illnesses. Things which are normaly rather easy to find at Filipin markets. E g malunggay, mango and coconuts   :)  Some they ate allready, but needed to eat much more.  

/High blood pressure 

/Diabetes.

I don't know if they followed concerning the first two. They where to their relatives.

/Flue/fever

I suppouse she followed, because got well fast   :)

/Bedsores (at baby, who had problem with sleep positions because of done surgery.)

/Anemia

The two last told they followed and got much better soon.

 

>To put this into proper context.... Suppose some foreigner wanted to stop a Pinoy from smoking or drinking (any alcohol drink).... What do you think his chances are?

Well. I can chose who I want to give support to, and I surely don't want to pay support to them, who afford to smoke  :mocking:     (A LITLE use of alcohol can be OK.)

 

You are 100% correct in your thinking..... but your application of your thinking into an actual working plan.... ain't gonna work.

Why wouldn't it work to do as other poster suggested above?  =Buy brown rice and give as support    :dance:

---

Concerning the yachts:

 

One of the more important things he said was.... you can NOT tell them they are doing something wrong! Instead, even if they install something upside down or backwards and your 5 yr old kid can see it but the worker can't...... Tell them they are doing a BRILLIANT JOB! However, let me show you a 'different' way to get the job done.   This way you are not belittling the worker, but instead, giving him new training that he may be able to use on another future job, which is how they think.

 

As JJR said better instruct them proper BEFORE start the production   :)

Easy done when same steps "mass production". Problematic when it's much more complicatred jobs and DIFFERENT in different steps.  (As e g programming. But I managed to get a rather good such production when I lead the outsourcing of part of developing/programming.)  Specialy hard if it's something the leader haven't education in himself, and they are hired, because they are supposed to know things better   :)    But they can be learned good functioning working methods anyway.

 

So, in your quest to buy land or to change the eating habits of the masses in the Philippines...... your ideas are correct. But your methodology of implimentation needs some revision. It is easier to go with the flow and make some changes here and there instead of rewriting the manual.

 

I will NOT try to change whole Philippines, but some in "my own small world"   :)

In my company I will NOT be satisfied with just small changes, because then it will still be bad when I die even if I become 100 years old  :mocking:      So I will try to find employees with good attituted and willing to learn, and go on looking until I find them   :)   They will just get test employments until I see if they suit, but I will tell too that if they suit they will get work "for ever" (= I will NOT use the loop whole many Phili employers use to save some pesos   =Fire GOOD employees too, just giving them short contracts, making the employers don't need to pay some Social Security type of fees!!!)    :angry:

 

 

Thomas,

 

This site has a BLOG feature that I think you should use once you move to the Philippines. We, your fellow forum members, would be interested in your efforts to start a company and buy real estate and your daily living experiences in dealing with the locals. Over time you can re assess your situation and update us to your successes and how you dealt with set backs and those bumps in the road that we all hit from time to time in our quests to get things done.  :thumbsup:

 

Here in the US, television has gone to S**T in the past 10 years or so with the Reality TV craze taking America down to new depths on the stupidity scale. I guess in Sweden you have never heard of Honey Boo Boo, and you are very lucky. I think that after you have lived in the Philippines for 2-3 years, you will have enough material for your own reality TV show "Dealing with the Pinoys" which I think would be much better watching than Honey Boo Boo. From an educational point of view, sort of a How To manual for us foreigners to watch in preparing us for retirement in the Philippines.

 

Jake, will you start the pool and handle the money, as usual? :hystery:     

[JJReyes]

Honey Boo Boo

 

Hey! I love the show. It's so terrible, it is actually good. After 10 minutes of laughing, I swtich to another channel. Am I correct to assume that Honey Boo Boo is a caricature and that her mother actually has a Ph.D. in Psychology from some prestigious university? If someone requested for a critique, I would explain the show is a modern version of Shirley Temple.

 

Oops! I forgot that the topic is rice. Well, Honey Boo Boo does not eat rice.

Edited January 31, 2013 by JJReyes

[Bruce]

Honey Boo Boo

 

Hey! I love the show. It's so terrible, it is actually good. After 10 minutes of laughing, I swtich to another channel. Am I correct to assume that Honey Boo Boo is a caricature and that her mother actually has a Ph.D. in Psychology from some prestigious university? If someone requested for a critique, I would explain the show is a modern version of Shirley Temple.

 

Oops! I forgot that the topic is rice. Well, Honey Boo Boo does not eat rice.

 

Quite right. Well I heard the reason Honey Boo boo does not eat rice is that she can figure out how the peel it!

[Thomas]

Thomas,   This site has a BLOG feature that I think you should use once you move to the Philippines. We, your fellow forum members, would be interested in your efforts to start a company and buy real estate and your daily living experiences in dealing with the locals. Over time you can re assess your situation and update us to your successes and how you dealt with set backs and those bumps in the road that we all hit from time to time in our quests to get things done.    Here in the US, television has gone to S**T in the past 10 years or so with the Reality TV craze taking America down to new depths on the stupidity scale. I guess in Sweden you have never heard of Honey Boo Boo, and you are very lucky. I think that after you have lived in the Philippines for 2-3 years, you will have enough material for your own reality TV show "Dealing with the Pinoys" which I think would be much better watching than Honey Boo Boo. From an educational point of view, sort of a How To manual for us foreigners to watch in preparing us for retirement in the Philippines.   Jake, will you start the pool and handle the money, as usual?      

Well. I have told already a long time ago, I believe I will be short of time - and OK speedy Internet  - to be much in forums, but I believe I could manage to write some in a blog  :)

I EXPECT it will be many bumps on the road to my company and house both literaly and real ones   :hystery:   (How big they will be, I believe will depend partly of how big wallet I will manage to bring  :)

 

Concerning own reality TV show I actualy have started collecting material to a such book already   :hystery:   Not just joking, I have done it a bit for real.  

(An other of the books I have written, a reality one (mainly fun part) about school life in Sweden need some polishing before it's done, but I have put that on hold, because of earlier a software developing project and now my "Philippine move" project  :)   If that book will be approved, I plan to try to get it made to a Swedish comedy TV serie. NOT for money, mainly it's just one of my future challenge goals. If that succeed, it can perhaps be an useful reference if trying to make one TV serie about odd things in Phili too  :)   Some bad in contact point of view thou, Swedish people in average aren't much interested in the Philippines, almost all Swedish travellers to SE Asia go to Thailand, even have direct flights there from Sweden.)

 

I guess you mean beting if I can manage to do as I have as goals (?) If so, then beters better include in the odds I have already managed to make a company in Russia (for a client) of a type which all foreigner Russia "experts" said was impossible...   :mocking:

[Thomas]

Concerning trying to change crap things and

Here in the US, television has gone to S**T in the past 10 years or so with the Reality TV craze taking America down to new depths on the stupidity scale.

Swedish TV show now a reality serie where the famous chef (at least in Europe) Jamie Olliver try to change the eating habbits in USA, which have made American people very ill in average by food. 

In this eppisode the Los Angeles School Board canceled their filming permit, although the headmasters want to keep them, the board don't even allow him to teach about healthy food in the LA schools!!!

So there are more than I, who try to change things rapidly. I haven't started yet with Phili (have done other earlier) and Jamie Olliver haven't given up yet. Now he started "guerilla" fight against the LA school board and opened feeding school kids HEALTHY outside one of the LA schools   :hystery: