Comments on: How To Lift 200 Pounds With Your Forehead… https://www.marketmanila.com/archives/how-to-lift-200-pounds-with-your-forehead A food blog that talks about food, produce, recipes, ingredients, restaurants and markets here in the Philippines and around the globe. Tue, 13 Jan 2009 12:38:04 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: quiapo https://www.marketmanila.com/archives/how-to-lift-200-pounds-with-your-forehead#comment-155408 Tue, 13 Jan 2009 12:38:04 +0000 http://www.marketmanila.com/archives/how-to-lift-200-pounds-with-your-forehead#comment-155408 I wonder if anyone has noticed what the price margin is from farmer to retailer compared to the mark up between retailer and consumer.
Whenever I have inquired, I found the mark up for the retailer is close to the farmers’ margin, who has to plant, and harvest, and risk losses from natural adversity.

]]> By: dhayL https://www.marketmanila.com/archives/how-to-lift-200-pounds-with-your-forehead#comment-155206 Mon, 12 Jan 2009 18:23:03 +0000 http://www.marketmanila.com/archives/how-to-lift-200-pounds-with-your-forehead#comment-155206 gosh, one wrong move, could be deadly… he’s amazing!

]]> By: cumin https://www.marketmanila.com/archives/how-to-lift-200-pounds-with-your-forehead#comment-155104 Mon, 12 Jan 2009 05:38:52 +0000 http://www.marketmanila.com/archives/how-to-lift-200-pounds-with-your-forehead#comment-155104 Thanks, MM. Posts like this make us give farm produce and farmers the respect that is rightfully due them. I feel awful seeing people work so terribly hard for a measly sum. Reminds me of a scene in Indonesia two years ago where kargadors went inside the crater of a stinking volcano, virtually engulfed in fumes, to pry chunks of sulphur (for medicine) and carry these down the mountain in large baskets. They, too, were carrying more than their weight, and early the equivalent of $3/day. The sight made me uncomfortable about being a carefree tourist. Where is justice?

]]> By: Blaise https://www.marketmanila.com/archives/how-to-lift-200-pounds-with-your-forehead#comment-155090 Mon, 12 Jan 2009 04:20:44 +0000 http://www.marketmanila.com/archives/how-to-lift-200-pounds-with-your-forehead#comment-155090 Naaawa ako looking at the farmer… :(

]]> By: Quillene https://www.marketmanila.com/archives/how-to-lift-200-pounds-with-your-forehead#comment-155068 Mon, 12 Jan 2009 02:40:33 +0000 http://www.marketmanila.com/archives/how-to-lift-200-pounds-with-your-forehead#comment-155068 Try to transpose this picture to the highlands like Benguet or Sagada… Kudos to those who walk the sloping mountain sides with this on their heads….

Is this method of carrying stuff an Asian thing? I.e. the tea leaf pickers in India, Japan;

]]> By: Topster https://www.marketmanila.com/archives/how-to-lift-200-pounds-with-your-forehead#comment-155055 Mon, 12 Jan 2009 01:21:49 +0000 http://www.marketmanila.com/archives/how-to-lift-200-pounds-with-your-forehead#comment-155055 Hi MM, nice of you to point out the other and traditional ways of transporting goods. Having read your post bought back memories of my lola. When I was a kid she would carry or balance on her head a clay tapayan of drinking water from across the street to their house. And she had to bring that up a flight of stairs!

Don’t know of the health risks but she was a smoker and lived to 80! =)

]]> By: Noel https://www.marketmanila.com/archives/how-to-lift-200-pounds-with-your-forehead#comment-155052 Mon, 12 Jan 2009 01:19:42 +0000 http://www.marketmanila.com/archives/how-to-lift-200-pounds-with-your-forehead#comment-155052 These farmers, school teachers, honest policemen, and other people who make very positive contribution to our society must be paid well. They are the real all-time heroes, and not those sports or boxing icons who make zillions to entertain the whole world. Its still a sick society we live in.

]]> By: Marketman https://www.marketmanila.com/archives/how-to-lift-200-pounds-with-your-forehead#comment-154939 Sun, 11 Jan 2009 04:11:07 +0000 http://www.marketmanila.com/archives/how-to-lift-200-pounds-with-your-forehead#comment-154939 corrine, I always haggle at the market, those are the middlemen and traders after all. But I rarely haggle when I buy from farmers directly, whether roadside near their farms, walking to market or at wholesale markets… Marketfan, no, I didn’t think to ask what he made for lifting such a heavy burden…

]]> By: corrine https://www.marketmanila.com/archives/how-to-lift-200-pounds-with-your-forehead#comment-154935 Sun, 11 Jan 2009 03:56:40 +0000 http://www.marketmanila.com/archives/how-to-lift-200-pounds-with-your-forehead#comment-154935 That is why we should not haggle to the hilt. Note the “tawaran” that happens in the market.

]]> By: MarketFan https://www.marketmanila.com/archives/how-to-lift-200-pounds-with-your-forehead#comment-154930 Sun, 11 Jan 2009 03:31:39 +0000 http://www.marketmanila.com/archives/how-to-lift-200-pounds-with-your-forehead#comment-154930 and do we know how much that man got paid for carrying that heavy load?

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