Tira-tirang pagkain o pagpag, bumubuhay sa mahihirap na pamilyang Pilipino | Reporter’s Notebook
Aired (January 9, 2020): Isa lang ang pamilya ni Lola Corazon sa mga pamilyang Pilipino na umaasa sa mga tira-tirang pagkain o pagpag para maging pantawid gutom sa araw-araw. Bukod sa pagsagot nito sa kanilang kumakalam na sikmura, ito na rin ang kanilang kabuhayan. Ano-ano nga ba ang kanilang ginagawa sa mga patapong pagkain para mapakinabangan pa nila?
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00:00In the past few days, there has been a lot of food waste.
00:12But for Lola Corazon, 61 years old, this is a blessing.
00:19For the past 4 years, she has been looking for food from different fast food restaurants.
00:30After a long search, they were able to gather half a sack of rice.
00:54Even though she hasn't arrived home yet, she was welcomed by Jerry Boy, who is 11 years old.
01:04Upon arriving home, Jerry Boy immediately opened the sack of rice.
01:12Because of the hunger that morning, Jerry Boy was unable to wash the leftover food such as fried chicken.
01:22They also ate the leftover food.
01:25What do you see that is clean?
01:31How do you know if it's clean?
01:34There are other kinds of food that are clean.
01:39If it's not clean, you can eat it.
01:43So those are the food that you have chosen?
01:47Yes, it's clean.
01:49If it's not clean, you can't eat it.
01:58My body is not strong enough to feed my grandchildren.
02:04I have to think of other ways to feed them.
02:12They don't want to ask for food.
02:25After eating the leftover chicken, she gave the leftover bread to her grandchildren.
02:31But you can see from the condition of the bread that it's already expired.
02:36Don't worry because it's small.
02:41If it's not sour, it won't be sour.
02:47Because it's still raw.
02:55Thank you for bringing it.
02:57Thank you for bringing it.
02:59What are you going to do with it?
03:01We'll sell it.
03:02You'll sell it?
03:04We'll sell it.
03:15Jerry Boy brought the leftover food to the store of the cook, Annabelle Lazaro.
03:28Lola Corazon collected P20.
03:37Annabelle is already preparing what she will cook.
03:43What are you cooking?
03:45It's just fried food.
03:48We're washing it well.
03:51It's okay.
03:53We also eat here.
03:56I'm tired.
03:59I have to go to the bathroom.
04:01At first?
04:02I have to go to the bathroom.
04:03I have tissues.
04:05I have to wash my face.
04:07Even if I have to stay here, it's still good to go to the bathroom.
04:11I have to clean up.
04:13We're not sick.
04:15Because if someone is sick, they will complain to us.
04:23Annabelle's customers are waiting for her to finish cooking.
04:35Earlier, she made kandireta, adobo, and inasal.
04:40How much?
04:41P20.
04:42P15.
04:43I don't have a lot.
04:46Just estimate.
04:48You have a lot.
04:50Yes, I have a lot.
04:51My store is cheap.
04:53My store is not far from here.
04:55It's delicious to eat here.
04:59For me, this is delicious.
05:02Really?
05:03But I don't think about it anymore.
05:07And it has no effect on my stomach.
05:10I'm so clean.
05:11Just a little bit of dirt.
05:12I might die.
05:15Jerry Boy also bought 10 pesos worth of adobo.
05:19This is what they will use for lunch.
05:26What will we earn?
05:28Just enough to eat.
05:31We don't spend money for one or two days.
05:36When we're tired, we'll buy some food.
05:43When we run out of money, we'll buy more.
05:51For many people who are hungry, like Jerry Boy,
05:54the problem of food waste in the Philippines is a big problem.
05:59This happens from production to consumption of food.
06:03In Benguet, which is considered a vegetable basket in the Philippines,
06:07tons of vegetables are thrown away after not passing the quality control.
06:13Other vegetables are rotting due to a lack of storage facility.
06:18In terms of production level,
06:20we have more losses that we haven't studied yet.
06:24Just like rice, when we harvest rice,
06:30we have losses due to manual or mechanization or non-modernized equipment.
06:41According to the Food and Nutrition Research Institute or FNRI,
06:44in 2015, 1,212 metric tons of rice was wasted.
06:51This is equivalent to 24,240 sacks or baskets of wasted rice per day.
06:59According to one study, 1,717 metric tons of plate waste
07:04or the leftover food was wasted in 2015.
07:07This is equivalent to 95 dump trucks of plate waste per day.
07:13In order to solve the problem of food waste and increase the number of people who are hungry,
07:18the Senate and the House of Representatives passed the Bill on Reducing Food Waste
07:22through Food Donation and Food Waste Recycling or Food Waste Reduction Act.
07:28It aims to give surplus food of various companies to so-called food insecure
07:34or people who don't have enough to eat.
07:37Under the bill, the owner of the establishment will choose
07:41and will separate the food that can still be eaten.
07:45If the food is saved,
07:48it will be given to accredited food banks that are targeted by the DSWD.
07:54As of now, two versions of the Food Waste Reduction Act have been passed in Congress.
08:07At 7 in the morning, we will accompany Franz and Paul,
08:11members of the non-government organization,
08:14Rice Against Hunger Philippines, to Divisoria.
08:18They will collect vegetables from the market.
08:23The vegetables that they will ask for will be delivered to their food banks in Tondo, Manila.
08:28There are vegetables, for example, cabbage.
08:30For example, there are insect bites.
08:32Actually, it is safer because it means that if there are insect bites, there is no pesticide.
08:40When we arrived at the location of the cereal store,
08:42the vegetables that will be sold are already prepared.
08:45We bought the one that is already ripe.
08:47What is ripe?
08:49The one that is already ripe.
08:51It is not the same as this one.
08:54Okay.
08:55Why did you peel and remove this?
08:57This is the one that is not for sale.
08:59You are giving it to them.
09:02While we were at the location of the cereal store,
09:04Franz and Paul were giving their vegetables and vegetable trimmings.
09:10Three large plastic bags of vegetables were collected.
09:16They were directed to the food bank to collect the vegetables.
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