My friends from China keep telling me that the fruits and vegetables here in SG is yucky. They would boast that the produce from their country is better and tastier.
And they might be right. While most of these produce are usually imported from many other countries including China, the quality of these items are usually more inferior when they are being shipped to SG.
Reason? For example, the fruit of say,an apple, is usually harvested before they are riped, coated with a layer of wax and other post processes. So how can the apple be sweet when it is not ripe? It all started to make sense. And we SGers have the rights to demand better quality foods. The government should invest money in agricultural activities and technologies so that we can also grow organic fruits and vegetables of higher quality, and hopefully at a cheaper price. If you eat an apple everyday for 70 years, what would the net weight of the wax(coating the apple) amount to? And is that going to keep the doctor away?
We deserve better, most definitely.
"We are what we eat."
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