The chairperson of the senate committee on agriculture just brushed the issue off saying she can live without onions. This is the same old woman who just encouraged people to reduce their consumption on rice when its price soared intolerably high.
Such people have no sympathy for other people, and that is why her statements should be well remembered and everything should be done so that in the next elections she and her party get as few votes as possible. However, I hope that people will still learn from everything and realize how important self-sufficiency is, so even though it is unrealistic to expect that anyone can be 100% self-sufficient, anyone who has a little land can produce vegetables such as onions, potatoes, lettuce, carrots and parsley and many other cultures that do not require any special knowledge or too much effort.
The idea is that if you pick people who will listen to whoever bribed them, or their party, or their ruler whoever depending on the nation, then you could tell them the most logical argument ever and they will return with silly stuff like this just because they want to listen to who has their ropes.
I know a politician that once said "Flood is not that bad, it cleans the streets from dirt", yes FLOOD! and that person was trying to follow their party leader who refused to talk about it. So, you could never expect people like this to make sense, they only say or do what they are ordered and they can't do anything else at all, do not have a single ounce of remorse in them.