Russian government plans for mass destruction of banned Western food imports have provoked outrage i
Source: Business Insider
Russian government plans for mass destruction of banned Western food imports have provoked outrage in a country where poverty rates are soaring and memories remain of famine during Soviet times.
Even some Kremlin allies are expressing shock at the idea of "food crematoria" while one orthodox priest has denounced the campaign, which officially began on Thursday, as insane and sinful.
However, the authorities are determined to press on with destroying illegal imports they consider "a security threat."
Russian TV showed a small mountain of illegally imported European cheese being bulldozed on Thursday while even before the official start, zealous workers threw boxes of European bacon into an incinerator.
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Erich Bloodaxe BSN
(14,733 posts)Or provide it to orphanages, shelters and whatnot?
geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)poisonous by the Russians.
Eat French cheese, and your kids might become gay.
That place was much better off under the USSR, in just about every capacity.
christx30
(6,241 posts)Stalin would agree with you.
geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)Art_from_Ark
(27,247 posts)The age of glasnost, perestroika, disarmament, and perhaps optimism.
former9thward
(32,077 posts)The poster said things were better off in the the USSR. No qualifications. I would venture the poster has never been to Russia either before or after the USSR. He they had the statement would be one of willful ignorance.
tabasco
(22,974 posts)Just rooty poot and his delusional fascist followers, who wish to create a Russian dictatorship.
Amishman
(5,559 posts)it will be quietly redirected for for the profit of the state officials
wordpix
(18,652 posts)1.1 billion lb. of pesticides used per year in the US alone. And you're ingesting it with your food unless you're 100% organic. It's the food chain.
montex
(93 posts)Must be nice to simply pontificate that you know all things good and wholesome. Care to give us some peer-reviewed science to back up your claims? Of course not. The best you'll ever put up is more Big-Organic propaganda designed to scare people into buying their products.
elias49
(4,259 posts)This is just one source I happened to see yesterday. The US is good with chemicals. Not just GMOs.
wordpix
(18,652 posts)This being only a tiny portion of what's out there
Gail P. Thelin and Wesley W. Stone, Estimation of Annual Agricultural Pesticide Use for Counties of the Conterminous United States, 19922009. National Water-Quality Assessment Program
Scientific Investigations Report, 20135009
Pesticide News Story: EPA Releases Report Containing Latest Estimates of Pesticide Use in the United States, February 17, 2011. http://epa.gov/oppfead1/cb/csb_page/updates/2011/sales-usage06-07.html
http://www.nrdc.org/health/pesticides/files/flawed-epa-approval-process-IB.pdf p.1
Crystal Gammon and Environmental Health News, Scientific American. http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/weed-whacking-herbicide-p/ Jun 23, 2009
Truthout. http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/25426-one-little-piggy-had-birth-defects-is-monsantos-roundup-to-blame. Aug. 8, 2014
Studies conducted on rats and rabbits since the 1980s have shown an astonishing spectrum of birth defects associated with glyphosate, including absent kidneys, missing lobes of the lungs, enlarged hearts, ventricular septal defects (holes in the heart), extra ribs, and deformed and absent bones of the skull, spine, ribs, sternum and limbs.
Danish pig farmer who changed to GE soy feed found piglets with (photos): a) malformed spine b) ear not formed c) cranial deformation d) cranium hole in head e) piglets born alive having short legs and one eye not developed f) one large eye, an elephant trunk with bone in it g) elephant tongue h) female piglet with testes i) fore gut and hind gut of the piglet with swollen belly are not connected j) malformed piglet with swollen belly. (Photos courtesy of Professor Monika Krueger)
Pesticide Action Network. http://www.panna.org/your-health/food
http://www.nrdc.org/health/pesticides/hcarson.asp
Pesticide Action Network. http://www.whatsonmyfood.org/
snooper2
(30,151 posts)LOL
Android3.14
(5,402 posts)The rest of us have to work to bring food to the table.
Sunlei
(22,651 posts)ship frozen shipping containers of whatever slop to a different point and then resell/ ship to russia through another country.
elias49
(4,259 posts)newthinking
(3,982 posts)It is difficult for any county with large borders to monitor foodstuffs for quality and detrimental metals etc. We can't even accomplish that with international shipping with our long legacy of institutions.
If you think that all the international pre-processed food we are eating is "quality" or in any manner well inspected...... well, buyer beware here or anywhere.
Sunlei
(22,651 posts)meegbear
(25,438 posts)Holy Evil Empire!
newthinking
(3,982 posts)elias49
(4,259 posts)But Russia did it. Russia bad, bad, bad.
PersonNumber503602
(1,134 posts)Do you think they should keep quiet or that their voices should not be reported on?
newthinking
(3,982 posts)Just like anywhere some are arguing that the contraband should be used, but like here it is not so simple with perishable foods.
And people are not going without food there, which is another lie (no less than here). Bread costs 50 cents a loaf, think you will hear that in the press? And they simply are switching supply from Europe to south America etc.
We will see the effect of this as well, since a lot of the less expensive produce that most of us buy comes from South America.
dembotoz
(16,832 posts)And we have hungry folks too...