Food self-sufficiency

Hi, everyone!

This afternoon, I happened to find my misunderstanding about the food self-sufficiency by a TV program. A couple of days ago I talked to some friends about that issue, related with food safety. I simply thought we should eat Japanese rice more at first in order to raise the low rate of food self –sufficiency. But on the program, a specialist said the problem was in the lowness of the custom tariff, kanzeiritsu. (I couldn’t make out that detail.) I also found that the self sufficiency of rice in Japan was very high, almost 100 %, and that eating much rice wasn’t a solution of that problem. I couldn’t understand the rest of his comments at all. It was too difficult and complicated for me, but gave me some awareness. Food safety has becoming more important for all of us, hasn’t it? By the way, my kids and I had McDonald’s hamburgers for lunch, not hand-made, not Japanese food…sorry.

So, see you later, good night.