Russian government plans for mass destruction of banned Western food imports have provoked outrage i

[uhnope]

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]

1. Why not just seize it and sell it to profit the state?

Or provide it to orphanages, shelters and whatnot?

[geek tragedy]

3. because anything associated with the decadent, evil west is considered

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]

8. I'm sure the millions killed by

Stalin would agree with you.

[geek tragedy]

9. I don't agree with how today's Russians think, to be extra clear nt

[Art_from_Ark]

13. Maybe the poster was referring to the USSR under Gorbachev

The age of glasnost, perestroika, disarmament, and perhaps optimism.

[former9thward]

23. He/she didn't say that.

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]

16. Not "the Russians"

Just rooty poot and his delusional fascist followers, who wish to create a Russian dictatorship.

[Amishman]

17. the best stuff won't make it to the incinerator

it will be quietly redirected for for the profit of the state officials

[wordpix]

2. most food grown/raised in the US is horrible, anyway, unless it's organic

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]

4. Baseless claims with no scientific evidence

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]

10. Check this out if you have doubts..

http://www.worldlifestyle.com/food/15-foods-that-are-banned-in-europe-but-not-in-the-u-s/2#next-image

This is just one source I happened to see yesterday. The US is good with chemicals. Not just GMOs.

[wordpix]

22. don't assume I have no scientific evidence, here are several links for starters

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, 1992–2009. National Water-Quality Assessment Program
Scientific Investigations Report, 2013–5009

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]

5. Putin must be reading "Natural News" LOL, you been giving him links?

LOL

[Android3.14]

6. Someone's living in a fantasy

The rest of us have to work to bring food to the table.

[Sunlei]

11. thats ok, the worse most contaminated ends up in russia anyway, its pretty easy to ship frozen

ship frozen shipping containers of whatever slop to a different point and then resell/ ship to russia through another country.

[elias49]

14. How nice. nt

[newthinking]

20. That depends. We hardly check out what comes from polluted chinese factories

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]

21. Some countries check their peoples foods more carefully then others

http://www.genesig.com/home

[meegbear]

7. Incinerating bacon???

Holy Evil Empire!

[newthinking]

12. What do we do with illegal food imports... um same thing...

[elias49]

15. Uhyup.

But Russia did it. Russia bad, bad, bad.

[PersonNumber503602]

18. It sounds like people in Russia are the ones who are the most upset

Do you think they should keep quiet or that their voices should not be reported on?

[newthinking]

19. They really aren't. You just swallowed propaganda

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]

24. The US throws away mountains of food due to freshness dates cosmetic appeal

And we have hungry folks too...