Russians boycotting US food industry.

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Quote from: mladen00 on June 06, 2014, 06:02:22 AM

I know it is hard for Brasil

Brazil is heavily dependent on dairy farming and sugarcane farming, in addition to Soya.

GMO Soya is expanding in Brazil, despite the fact was it was banned until a few years ago. A stunning 91% of all the Soya planted in Brazil is GMO Soya. China imports 70% of all the Soya produced in Brazil, and so far they have not objected to GMO Soya.

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Quote from: mladen00 on June 06, 2014, 06:02:22 AM

I know it is hard for Brasil

GMO could be used to produce fuel.

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BRICS countries must ban GMO foods.

I know it is hard for Brasil

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Quote from: mladen00 on June 06, 2014, 04:59:11 AM

now chinese gov. also looking how to ban GMO seeds and food.
russia have enough power and plants for export also

lol... the American government is trying to harm the Russian oil and gas exports, and at the same time their exports are getting rejected in most of the world nations. Remember that the US is the biggest exporter of food products in the world (the vast majority of them GMO food).

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Quote from: bryant.coleman on June 02, 2014, 11:47:53 PM

Quote from: Benjig on June 02, 2014, 08:30:03 PM

Generally, these products are produced in Russia, though they have come up in the United States. If you want to boycott - to fight. Plants in Russia will close its head office will lose 1% of the profits, and thousands of workers from factories in Russia will remain unemployed.

GMO food is not produced in Russia, as there is a law banning its production. Oh.. and don't threaten the Russians with unemployment. Actually banning the GMO food will create more jobs in Russia. You can take that thousands of workers BS to somewhere else, probably to some European country.

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now chinese gov. also looking how to ban GMO seeds and food.
russia have enough power and plants for export also

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Quote from: Benjig on June 02, 2014, 08:30:03 PM

Generally, these products are produced in Russia, though they have come up in the United States. If you want to boycott - to fight. Plants in Russia will close its head office will lose 1% of the profits, and thousands of workers from factories in Russia will remain unemployed.

GMO food is not produced in Russia, as there is a law banning its production. Oh.. and don't threaten the Russians with unemployment. Actually banning the GMO food will create more jobs in Russia. You can take that thousands of workers BS to somewhere else, probably to some European country.

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Generally, these products are produced in Russia, though they have come up in the United States. If you want to boycott - to fight. Plants in Russia will close its head office will lose 1% of the profits, and thousands of workers from factories in Russia will remain unemployed.

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Quote from: bryant.coleman on May 28, 2014, 07:09:11 AM

Everyone should remember that Russia is not the first country to ban or regulate the GMO food. Already more than 64 countries have done so, including the two most populous nations in the world.

GMO's are quite safe. They should be not patentable once they are in the wild. The biggest agra-danger in the USA is monoculture. So much of our stuff is exactly the same, if there was a problem with it the problem would be very widespread. If some disease or side effect was found it would have a huge effect in the end.

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Everyone should remember that Russia is not the first country to ban or regulate the GMO food. Already more than 64 countries have done so, including the two most populous nations in the world.

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Quote from: bryant.coleman on May 26, 2014, 07:59:26 AM

This is the original news article which triggered this thread.

Russia will not import GMO products - PM Medvedev

http://rt.com/news/russia-import-gmo-products-621/

The Americans interpreted Medvedev's statement as a boycott against the American food industry.

Sadly, this shows one of the reasons why I don't believe in media anymores, and I don't make judgement till I read several sources including the sources from both involved parties, Media propaganda is a big geopolitical tool nowadays

Banning GMOs is a good thing, as long as it's not proven that they are 100% safe, and their impact on the environment is reduced

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Quote from: kuroman on May 26, 2014, 12:41:22 PM

there were always restriction for china to invest in key industries in Russia, but this is a good opportunity for China to extend their reach in Russia, but still if I'm not mistaking Russia will not open the gate just yet, which any smart person should do, key industries such as oil and Gas (exploitation and investment in gazprom and stuff), rare metals, military, pharmaceutic and banking system will be open for Chinese,

There is a lot of Chinese investment in the agricultural and manufacturing sectors of Russia. But their involvement in the oil and gas, and mineral sector is limited. And they are not just limited to the Chinese. In general, all foreigners are limited from investing in these sectors Almost all the oil deposits and mines are fully owned by the Russian government or the individual Russian citizens, although there are some exceptions, such as the Exxon Neftegas / Sakhalin-I (30% owned by Exxon Mobil, 20% owned by ONGC) and Sakhalin Energy / Sakhalin-II (Shell - 27.5%, Mitsui - 12.5%, and Mitsubishi - 10%).

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Quote from: nickenburg on May 26, 2014, 02:38:41 PM

Another good move from Russia,
First pPutin Make's sure Russia is not in debt anymore with the rothchild banksters.
Then because of that they try to make him look bad in the western press.
Now Russia bans the gmo food to, I understand why the western Media and politics are trying to make them look bad now.

Unfortunately if the rest of the world starts accepting gmo Russia will be forced to comply.
And this because of the costs. Countries that need lots of food won't be able to pay the higher costs and this will force Russian to either switch or produce just for the internal demand.

Also , just because Russia is huge there are always things that will just not grow there or are just too costly.
And those things you have to import like they currently do with meat or sugar or bananas.

If only gmo food exists in the world , what will they import?

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Another good move from Russia,
First pPutin Make's sure Russia is not in debt anymore with the rothchild banksters.
Then because of that they try to make him look bad in the western press.
Now Russia bans the gmo food to, I understand why the western Media and politics are trying to make them look bad now.

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Quote from: bryant.coleman on May 23, 2014, 12:50:10 PM

China is making the maximum use out of the opportunities.

China ready to replace EU investors in Russia if more sanctions follow

http://rt.com/news/161104-sanction-eu-russia-china/

there were always restriction for china to invest in key industries in Russia, but this is a good opportunity for China to extend their reach in Russia, but still if I'm not mistaking Russia will not open the gate just yet, which any smart person should do, key industries such as oil and Gas (exploitation and investment in gazprom and stuff), rare metals, military, pharmaceutic and banking system will be open for Chinese,

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Quote from: Rigon on May 26, 2014, 09:54:44 AM

Good!!! Now all the Russians need to do is ban chemtrails in the sky; ban fluoride from water, toothpaste and food, and food made with toxic pesticides and nanotechnology; ban use of amalgams and stop using ultrasound on pregnant women.

A lot of farmland in Russia is already owned by joint ventures, partially owned by Western corporations. For example, the Black Earth Farming Corp, which controls more than 750,000 acres of Russian farmland (esp. in the oblasts of Kursk, Tambov, Lipetsk and Voronezh) is jointly owned by American businessman Richard Warburton. Medvedev's anti-GMO campaign is probably targeted at these corporations.

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Quote from: bryant.coleman on May 26, 2014, 07:59:26 AM

This is the original news article which triggered this thread.

Russia will not import GMO products - PM Medvedev

http://rt.com/news/russia-import-gmo-products-621/

The Americans interpreted Medvedev's statement as a boycott against the American food industry.

Good!!! Now all the Russians need to do is ban chemtrails in the sky; ban fluoride from water, toothpaste and food, and food made with toxic pesticides and nanotechnology; ban use of amalgams and stop using ultrasound on pregnant women.

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Quote from: Nemo1024 on May 26, 2014, 08:54:48 AM

Food is only one of the factors. Besides, Russia has a serious problem in the smoking and drinking department... Quite strong lobbying there, stalling any sane initiative. Even GMO almost slipped through...

Comparing :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_life_expectancy
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_cigarette_consumption_per_capita
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_alcohol_consumption

I would hove to hear somebody who says smoking is not affecting health right now and kick him in his head.

What amazes me is that some counties which I believed are heavy smokers and drinkers don't make the top. Japan for example.

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Food is only one of the factors. Besides, Russia has a serious problem in the smoking and drinking department... Quite strong lobbying there, stalling any sane initiative. Even GMO almost slipped through...

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Quote from: sana8410 on May 26, 2014, 08:26:28 AM

Quote from: bryant.coleman on May 26, 2014, 07:59:26 AM

This is the original news article which triggered this thread.

Russia will not import GMO products - PM Medvedev

http://rt.com/news/russia-import-gmo-products-621/

The Americans interpreted Medvedev's statement as a boycott against the American food industry.

If Russia is serious about going organic, then i applaud this move. I would also like to see the deeds being done - i.e. reversing the legislation to ban gmo's, first and foremost and not reporting to the gmo register. The world stands behind this move.

Americans , drinking cola , eating at mc'donalds , eating gmo , subject of "secret" cia test
Life expectancy:
35 United States 79.8

Russia , with it's organic food :
124 Russia 70

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Quote from: sana8410 on May 26, 2014, 08:26:28 AM

If Russia is serious about going organic, then i applaud this move. I would also like to see the deeds being done - i.e. reversing the legislation to ban gmo's, first and foremost and not reporting to the gmo register. The world stands behind this move.

This move has nothing to do with importing organic food. Organic food is way too expensive for most of the ordinary Russians. Remember that Russia is a net-food importer. They will continue importing the non-organic non-GMO food.

BTW... Medvedev recently said that he will put more emphasis on growing organic food. But even while the Russian organic food market is growing at a dizzying pace, it constitutes only a minuscule fraction of the overall food sector.

Check these:

http://www.organic-world.net/news-organic-world.html?&tx_ttnews%5Btt_news%5D=1042&cHash=fb945605e40b71cab0a6d1345e225577
http://voiceofrussia.com/2012_10_14/Organic-food-in-Russia-healthy-for-the-wealthy/

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