Russia responds to sanctions by banning western food imports

Guardian UK ^ | 07 August 2014 | Jennifer Rankin

[RedMDer]

[deadrock]

Make products cheaper at home. The free market has a way of closing down over priced merchants.

[samtheman]

These countries aren’t the only ones that grow food. Seems the sellers would be hurt more by this.

Not to mention that Putin has the support of at least a majority who will be willing to belt-tighten to smack the West.

[SkyDancer]

Read it on the internet. Where else can you get factual information? (yes, there's sarcasm there)

http://en.ria.ru/russia/20070516/65597324.html

http://www.rferl.org/content/article/1117497.html

http://rbth.com/articles/2010/10/06/russia_cuts_meat_imports05008.html

http://www.photius.com/countries/russia/economy/russia_economy_foreign_trade.html

But I digress. If you search on "Russia imports 40% of its food" you'll see all the articles on it.

You're Welcome

[SgtHooper]

And meanwhile, we import unmarked poisoned crap from China. Why not simply eat what WE grow.

[Mount Athos]

Wouldn’t substituting sources so far away incur massive shipping cost? And not everything has such a long shelf life.

I would happily pay a premium for the incredible quality of beef from Argentina, if they can work out that deal I guess that would be one bright spot for both of them.

But a lot of the other substitutions will be more costly and worse product

[Mike Darancette]

Lots of opportunities to get out of unprofitable contracts. Russian food prices going up.

[Lorianne]

Makes more sense to me.