Putin Is Losing a Nasty Food Fight

[cryptocoiner]

Putin Is Losing a Nasty Food Fight

Russian President Vladimir Putin has mounted a new campaign in his propaganda war with the West: The highly publicized destruction of imported food, which the government banned last year in retaliation for Western economic sanctions. This time around, though, his constituents aren't quite with him.

The ban, aimed at the U.S. and European countries that imposed sanctions on Russia over its aggression in Ukraine, covers a long of items, including fruit, vegetables, most kinds of meat, fish and dairy products. Some have been replaced by imports from other parts of the world. In other cases, local producers have stepped up. In the first six months of 2015, Russia's poultry output increased 11.4 percent from the same period in 2014, meat production jumped 13.2 percent, and cheese production increased 27.5 percent.

The local replacements often aren't all that great. In a taste test of one of the bizarre cheeses that have filled Russian store shelves since the embargo, the Guardian's Moscow correspondent Shaun Walker concluded that "the disintegrating texture is unnerving, and feels as if hundreds of tiny globules of parmesan have been left out on the pavement for a couple of weeks and then stuck back together with glue."

To satisfy demand for the real thing, embargoed goods have been filtering into Russia. Some arrive by circuitous routes to establish acceptable provenance, or are repackaged in neighboring Belarus to pretend they originated there (I've seen Belorussian salmon in stores, though the landlocked country doesn't produce it). Others are simply smuggled in: Russian customs inspectors are not known for their incorruptibility.

In a rare act of defiance, the Magnit chain of discount supermarkets, one of the country's biggest retailers, sued the government agency charged with keeping embargoed items out of stores, claiming Putin's decree on the food sanctions bans only their import, not their sale. A St. Petersburg court last month ruled in Magnit's favor, a decision that would be more surprising if the company weren't owned by Sergey Galitsky, one of Russia's richest people.

Putin, however, won't have it. He wants his food embargo to work as effectively as before, boosting local producers and punishing Western companies that have already seen their Russian business shrink. European Union exports of food, beverages and tobacco to Russia, for example, were down more than 50 percent in May from a year earlier:

moar - http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2015-08-06/putin-gets-in-a-nasty-food-fight

[countryfree]

Millions are starving in Africa, an even larger number cannot afford to eat as much as they wish, or need, and some mad man is destroying tons of good food. This is the sad world we're living into. I guess Africans should protest in front a Russian embassy.

[bryant.coleman]

Anyway, there are two major gainers from the Russian food embargo:

1. Belarus: The Belorussian cartels are making a lot of money, by re-exporting farm products from Russophobe countries such as Moldova, Poland, Lithuania, and Estonia.

2. Russian Agro-Industrial giants: Firms such as Cherkizovo, Rusagro, Miratorg.etc are gaining enormously from high prices. The irony is that most of these firms are controlled by the foreigners.

[SebastianJu]

Millions are starving in Africa, an even larger number cannot afford to eat as much as they wish, or need, and some mad man is destroying tons of good food. This is the sad world we're living into. I guess Africans should protest in front a Russian embassy.

Though sadly delivering food to africa has shown to make the problems there worse. For example chicken parts that can't be sold in europe anymore. They are shipped and sold to africa in masses and sold there for cheap. The result is that the local chicken production gets killed. Of course it's the same with free food.

It would be better to help them helping themselfes. Ok, there are places where food is needed without an industry that could be destroyed. But generally such deliveries are a double edged sword.

[countryfree]

Millions are starving in Africa, an even larger number cannot afford to eat as much as they wish, or need, and some mad man is destroying tons of good food. This is the sad world we're living into. I guess Africans should protest in front a Russian embassy.

Though sadly delivering food to africa has shown to make the problems there worse. For example chicken parts that can't be sold in europe anymore. They are shipped and sold to africa in masses and sold there for cheap. The result is that the local chicken production gets killed. Of course it's the same with free food.

It would be better to help them helping themselfes. Ok, there are places where food is needed without an industry that could be destroyed. But generally such deliveries are a double edged sword.

OK, so let's forget Africa. Plenty of people would appreciate free food in Russia. Putin has seized those illegal imports and he should have given them to the local poor people, but he chose to destroy them to make it clear that helping the poor isn't one of its priorities.

[ScarlettDenev]

Poor Russian people
And the worsest thing is that human there can be imprisoned by doing nothing, just expessing opposite point of view.
Putin is a real weirdo.

Frankly saying, it's not funny anymore...

[Nas]

Poor Russian people
And the worsest thing is that human there can be imprisoned by doing nothing, just expessing opposite point of view.
Putin is a real weirdo.

That's happening in almost all other countries, too. Even in the US freedom of speech is somehow limited.

[bryant.coleman]

Poor Russian people
And the worsest thing is that human there can be imprisoned by doing nothing, just expessing opposite point of view.
Putin is a real weirdo.

Well.. 85% of the Russians are supporting Putin according to the opinion polls being conducted by Western agencies. So he must be doing something good for the Russian people, right? And the game of sanctions and embargoes were started by the Europeans and the Americans. Russia imposed the counter-sanctions as a retaliatory measure. And the European farmers are losing billions of USD as a result of it.

BTW... you need to improve on your English. Are you from the Philippines?

[blablahblah]

Anyway, there are two major gainers from the Russian food embargo:

1. Belarus: The Belorussian cartels are making a lot of money,

Good for them. One day, their dictator Lukashenko will finally be gone (even Fidel Castro did not last forever) and they'll be forced to find an honest job.

by re-exporting farm products from Russophobe countries such as Moldova, Poland, Lithuania, and Estonia.

Former slaves states and benefactors of the USSR, "Russophobes"?! After all the abuse they endured at the hands of Communist scum? How dare they dislike Russia!

2. Russian Agro-Industrial giants: Firms such as Cherkizovo, Rusagro, Miratorg.etc are gaining enormously from high prices. The irony is that most of these firms are controlled by the foreigners.

Isn't Putin also a foreigner? Doesn't he live in Switzerland with his sexy mistresses and that stupid bear he keeps riding?

[bryant.coleman]

by re-exporting farm products from Russophobe countries such as Moldova, Poland, Lithuania, and Estonia.
Former slaves states and benefactors of the USSR, "Russophobes"?! After all the abuse they endured at the hands of Communist scum? How dare they dislike Russia!

Yeah... Moldova is a paradise right now. When they were a part of the USSR, Moldova was being regarded as the bread-basket of Europe. And now, after 4-5 years of American puppet rule, Moldova is being considered as the poorest nation in Europe.

Isn't Putin also a foreigner? Doesn't he live in Switzerland with his sexy mistresses and that stupid bear he keeps riding?

Calm down. At least having a mistress is much better than this:

[OBAViJEST]

by re-exporting farm products from Russophobe countries such as Moldova, Poland, Lithuania, and Estonia.
Former slaves states and benefactors of the USSR, "Russophobes"?! After all the abuse they endured at the hands of Communist scum? How dare they dislike Russia!

Yeah... Moldova is a paradise right now. When they were a part of the USSR, Moldova was being regarded as the bread-basket of Europe. And now, after 4-5 years of American puppet rule, Moldova is being considered as the poorest nation in Europe.

Isn't Putin also a foreigner? Doesn't he live in Switzerland with his sexy mistresses and that stupid bear he keeps riding?

Calm down. At least having a mistress is much better than this:

Worse than shitty photoshop? I don't even support or agree with American politics but that's a poor attempt at slander...

Why is putin even worrying about food exports, when he can show the world how US supports terrorism in Syria, against the government there which is supported by Russia...?

[blablahblah]

by re-exporting farm products from Russophobe countries such as Moldova, Poland, Lithuania, and Estonia.
Former slaves states and benefactors of the USSR, "Russophobes"?! After all the abuse they endured at the hands of Communist scum? How dare they dislike Russia!

Yeah... Moldova is a paradise right now. When they were a part of the USSR, Moldova was being regarded as the bread-basket of Europe. And now, after 4-5 years of American puppet rule, Moldova is being considered as the poorest nation in Europe.

Spare me your communist propaganda about "breadbaskets". Moscow obviously did not have enough money to pay Moldova for the agricultural exports, so they made symbolic gestures instead, like sending statues of Lenin, building lavish Party offices, and TALKING about how the region is such an amazing breadbasket.

[BADecker]

I thought maybe this topic was going to talk about ground beef, like here https://www.freedomsphoenix.com/News/182408-2015-08-28-new-study-almost-all-ground-beef-is-39-contaminated-with.htm.

 

[OBAViJEST]

I thought maybe this topic was going to talk about ground beef, like here https://www.freedomsphoenix.com/News/182408-2015-08-28-new-study-almost-all-ground-beef-is-39-contaminated-with.htm.

 

meh, so is the water we drink 

[tvbcof]

Russia, unlike China, doesn't have an overpopulation problem.  And she doesn't have a virtual overpopulation problem like we here in the West do.  This means that they don't need to make their population sick and sterile with GMO foods provided by multinational corporations which also own the drug companies which are thought (incorrectly) to provide medicines to make people well again.  In actuall fact these medicines mostly just fuck people up even more and have the net effect of turning them upside-down to shake more coins out of their pockets.

If the sanctions stopped the flow of tainted food into Russia it would be one of the biggest favors we here in the U.S. ever did for them.  That's my read.

[Linuld]

Poor Russian people
And the worsest thing is that human there can be imprisoned by doing nothing, just expessing opposite point of view.
Putin is a real weirdo.

Well.. 85% of the Russians are supporting Putin according to the opinion polls being conducted by Western agencies. So he must be doing something good for the Russian people, right? And the game of sanctions and embargoes were started by the Europeans and the Americans. Russia imposed the counter-sanctions as a retaliatory measure. And the European farmers are losing billions of USD as a result of it.

BTW... you need to improve on your English. Are you from the Philippines?

I believe that is coming from the mentality of russians. The police is not to trust there. So they take the right in their own hands often enough. And criminals are often enough heroes. So they think putin is a strong person that took what he wanted and because of that they like him.

At least that's the impression i learned while having a russian girlfriend. And yes, even girls can fight there.

[BADecker]

Russia, unlike China, doesn't have an overpopulation problem.  And she doesn't have a virtual overpopulation problem like we here in the West do.  This means that they don't need to make their population sick and sterile with GMO foods provided by multinational corporations which also own the drug companies which are thought (incorrectly) to provide medicines to make people well again.  In actuall fact these medicines mostly just fuck people up even more and have the net effect of turning them upside-down to shake more coins out of their pockets.

If the sanctions stopped the flow of tainted food into Russia it would be one of the biggest favors we here in the U.S. ever did for them.  That's my read.

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...

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[ridery99]

Putin only wins.

[tvbcof]

Russia, unlike China, doesn't have an overpopulation problem.  And she doesn't have a virtual overpopulation problem like we here in the West do.  This means that they don't need to make their population sick and sterile with GMO foods provided by multinational corporations which also own the drug companies which are thought (incorrectly) to provide medicines to make people well again.  In actuall fact these medicines mostly just fuck people up even more and have the net effect of turning them upside-down to shake more coins out of their pockets.

If the sanctions stopped the flow of tainted food into Russia it would be one of the biggest favors we here in the U.S. ever did for them.  That's my read.

GcMAF (Globulin component Macrophage Activating Factor) cures cancer and a whole lot of other things by reconditioning your immune system, resetting it.

From http://www.naturalnews.com/050972_GcMAF_cancer_cells_Bradstreet.html:

(NaturalNews) A breakthrough cancer treatment appears to be the reason why a handful of holistic doctors were recently found "suicided" is now gaining worldwide attention as a potential universal cure for cancer. And new microscopic footage released by First Immune shows this amazing remedy in action -- the human protein GcMAF is visually seen activating the body's own macrophages, which are then able to attack and destroy breast cancer cells in vitro.

...

Youtube search on "Cancer cells destroyed by First Immune GcMAF."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5RtWSwz43gQ (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1WZrnCcH24)

Peruse this site to see how it all works - https://gcmaf.se/.

There is another thread about that on this board somewhere.  Again, the thing I find most interesting is the suggestion that alpha-N-acetylgalactosaminidase (aka, 'nagalase') might be a constituent of some vaccines for the purposes of causing various problems in a population.  Very lucrative problems for the medical/industrial complex I might add.

Obviously this is a pretty 'out there' conspiracy theory, but at this point I would not put it past these fuckers.  It would solve several 'problems' imagined by several disparate groups.

 - One the pharma side, it the problem would be that they need more customers to keep their stock values growing.

 - On the 'eco' side for lack of a better description, it would help solve the infestation of humans that the planet is suffering from.

 - On the fiscal side it would be mighty helpful of the non-productive oldsters would start to die off at an earlier age like back in the good old days.

I absolutely do not rule out some pretty sick shit on the part of our social engineers as a legitimate hypothesis to explore.  And since government is so secretive and coming down so hard on whistleblowers, this exploration is a bigger challenge than it would be in a more transparent society.

[ridery99]

They went to the gym yesterday