Posted on 08/06/2014 9:39:44 PM PDT by GeronL
http://nation.foxnews.com/2014/08/06/russia-bans-all-us-food-imports-response-sanctions
Russia will ban all imports of food from the United States and all fruit and vegetables from Europe, the state news agency reported on Wednesday, a sweeping response to Western sanctions imposed over its support for rebels in Ukraine.
The measures will hit consumers at home who rely on cheap imports, and on farmers in the West for whom Russia is a big market. Moscow is by far the biggest buyer of European fruit and vegetables and the second biggest importer of U.S. poultry.
(Excerpt) Read more at nation.foxnews.com ...
Pacific Crab Legs from Vladivostok
Well, you are right of course but everychicken that produces two breasts produce two legs and two thighs two wings and two feet.
The breasts get eaten whole or as chicken tenders and pieces. The growers solved the wing problem with buffalo wings. That still leaves a big excess of legs and thighs to be sold. I like them and they are cheap but there are still literally tons that are exported.
Chicken Feet? We export them to China by the refrigerated container load as Chicken Paws. Feet translates to paws in chinese. They make soup from them. Forty thousand pounds of frozen chicken feet per container is a lot of chicken feet.
We also export turkey legs, gizzards and livers to Africa where they are consumed by the militaries.
One of our very own FReepers owns a rare earth mine.
Care to guess what Gubment regulations did to production?
Wouldn’t this make our food cheaper?
Or.
The article was wrong and their production price is $40ish or whatever.
Ya pick whatever you want to believe that makes you feel good.
It very well could
Bingo! Now, you’re on the right track.
Last American out of Russia flush the toilet.
We are importing mail order brides... $27 Billion was the post naturalization alimony burden associated with those imports... in 2013.
Not a smart move on Russia’s part, better to wait out Europe, and the US, than to hurt oneself with the cost of living.
Food competes with fuel, if a farmer sells less food they will sell more corn for fuel.
the legs are my fav part! nothing like a good ole fried chicken leg!
Mike
Its not cheap by our standards, but back in the day, when those “Alfa” class SSN’s (IIRC) were built and deployed, it was a fairly good boat for them and the mission it had to conduct...
If the Russians dump those boats on another country, like the NK’s...We might be in trouble because our (Navy’s) mission has shifted a little away from “blue water” ops, to a more Spec Ops support role...
Sure we can quickly adjust, but at what cost to us??? In current materials and personnel???
Just pushing back the envelope back a tad...
Sure...China tried to put the skids on our utilization of the stuff we were buying off them back in 2010-11 with their restrictions, forcing American companies to up their production (searches)...But that was, as you recall, stifled by “Uncle Sucky” (our wonderful representatives in this Republic.../sarc)...
I believe back in late 2010, right before the election, Three bills countering China’s rare-earths policies were introduced in the last Congress by Coffman, Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, and Rep. Kathleen Dahlkemper, a “D” who lost re-election that cycle introduced legislation to counter these restrictions/regulations that were put into place, via Obama E.O. (IIRC, I stand to be corrected) who favored China’s ability to put a dent in our economy...
Id have to go back a little bit and try to find what happened and how obviously beat that effort to death...But the Legislative branch, once again, tried to do something yet since it wasn’t really a headline issue, it kinda died under the radar...
So yes, it gives more credence to the idea that elections do have LONG TERM effect on our future (socially and economically), despite the narrow minded dunderheads in our midst that do not see past the color of one’s skin, and spend too much time fixating on the twitter trend of the moment...Right???
;-)
Lots of hairy ugly US men looking for love will soon have to find other venues than Russia. Some of these males post their nonsense here...I see. OTOH Russians will be spared hormone laden US agri beef...Brazil produces far better...
Everything we have here, that the EPA has outlawed.
I guess that means more traffic to the Philippines. lol
Paging AlexW for the heck of it
"Brazilian beef and food production does not measure up to the standards found in Europe as per EU inspectors.
Hormones and anti-biotics banned from use on animals in the EU are freely available and present on farms in Brazil, according to the EU Food and Veterinary Office (FVO)."
http://www.e-steroid.com/steroids-blog/brazilian-beef-not-conforming-to-eu-standards.html
But the Denver-based National Cattlemen’s Beef Association says that action by USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service opening the U.S. to importation of fresh and frozen beef from 14 Brazilian states is putting those consumers at risk. And, because of a separate audit, USDA won’t be certifying any new establishments as eligible to export to the U.S. The conflicting decisions have left a lingering controversy in their wake.
“We are more convinced than ever, after reading this report, that Brazil is not capable of holding its industry to the same standards we hold ourselves to,” says Victoria, TX, cattleman Bob McCan, NCBA president.
McCan was referring to the final audit report dated April 16, 2014, from USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) on the Feb. 19-March 14, 2013, onsite review of Brazil’s inspection system. The cattlemen’s group is critical of FSIS for not providing more timely access to the report on Brazil’s inspection system.
Onsite reviews are conducted to determine if a foreign country’s meat inspection system is equivalent to USDA’s. Importing nations must meet or exceed requirements imposed in the U.S. by FSIS meat inspectors.
An onsite review like the one conducted last year in Brazil focuses on six main system components: government oversight, statutory authority and food safety regulations, sanitation, Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Points (HACCP) systems, chemical residue control programs, and microbiological testing programs.
NCBA’s chief veterinarian, Dr. Kathy Simmons, says the cattlemen’s association has “significant concerns with Brazil’s ability and willingness to meet established compliance requirements.”
“Most alarming to me is the inconsistent application and implementation of Specified Risk Material (SRM) requirements throughout the system and a history of unresolved drug residue violations,” Simmons says.
SRMs, including such parts as the brain, skull, spinal cord and eyes, are prohibited from entering the human food chain because of their potential as bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) agents. BSE is the prion disorder also known as “Mad Cow” disease.
Brazil’s meat inspectors do not have a uniform definition for SRMs in cattle consistent with FSIS requirements. The audit found that would result in inconsistent implementation of SRM regulations.
http://www.foodsafetynews.com/2014/05/usdas-opening-to-beef-from-brazil-blocked-by-food-safety-concerns/#.U-bnPrsg9FY
Don’t talk with a full mouth, it’s unbecoming.
The American Farmer produces the widest variety, the greatest quantity, and the highest quality of food this world has ever seen.
And at the lowest prices since the world began.
Many Food Luddites would like to throw a wrench into this food producing machine to destroy it.
Are you one of them?
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