How food exports quietly benefit Filipino households

Global demand reshapes what we eat, what we save on, and what we once ignored

- TIMPLA'T TIKIM

Food prices have reached impossible levels. The typical poor man’s diet of rice and fish is now only for the rich. Bangus costs more than pork, and galunggong sells almost twice as much as chicken.

But all is not lost. With globalization changing eating habits everywhere, the shifts have been good for many sectors. One just has to look.