And then there is China’s food problems what with nuts and bolts in bread etc.
In Russia, cheese eat you!
Hah, Maybe we should be sending all those do-gooder Progressives to Russia and China so they can change the methods of food manufacture and processing. Know what, I have the perfect candidate for the job. Michelle Obama...
Meow Stew .....mmmmm.
While it’s not quite that bad, our own food has been on a downward spiral for years. A lot of what passes for hamburger certainly doesn’t look or smell like it on a grill anymore. Meat in general has gotten a little odd in my opinion, unless you’re buying it straight from a butcher shop.
Ah yes communism gives government control a whole new meaning. It is cat and mouse. The government is too restrictive so producers find ways around it
And they say Capitalism stinks...
It’s the same right here in America with saw dust in the parm cheese.
The purpose of the Russian economy is to reward thieves and crooks. Everyone else is a victim.
I doubt they will notice.
Not just in China and Russia, we have some issues here too:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3450138/posts
Everything You Love to Eat is a Scam
Apparently the food producers are not bribing the correct officials?
5.56mm
Oh oh. There is a Russian shop where I go to buy food items, though I only buy chocolates from Russia. This article didn’t mention chocolate. But it has me wondering what I was actually eating.
Russia, like China, is what Francis Fukuyama called a ‘low trust’ society. And in a low trust society people aren’t trustworthy outside of their family or clan—and thus in most business, including the food sector.
A short inside look to how a Russian cheese factory works.
Only the ignorant believe that US food is as advertised...
There probably is a correlation between decades of imposed atheism and a lack of public morals. The chickens have come home to roost .