Meat and airplanes: Onishchenko's long arm?

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I. The roctopamine question as a political argument

Comrade Onishchenko tightly took up the meat issue. In one sitting, the main man from Rospotrebnadzor put almost insurmountable barriers to pork and beef from the United States, Canada, Mexico and Brazil.

December 7, the day after US Senators approved the Magnitsky Act, which was paired with the repeal of the Jackson-Vanik amendment, our sanitary authority notified veterinary services of these countries about the need to ship pork and beef only after conducting pre-export laboratory tests of meat for the presence of ractopamine. The Russian ministry said that the use of this drug "is among the insufficiently studied controversial issues because of the possible negative impact on human health."

Comrade Onishchenko did not prohibit the importation of meat into Russia. It only requires accompanying documents that the animals did not receive ractopamine. However, in the United States such certification is not provided, and therefore a new sanitary requirement means the emergence of insurmountable barriers to the meat supply.

Meat sellers were outraged: after all, Russia is now in the WTO. And if Onishchenko took the decision the next day after voting on the “Magnitsky Act”, then the press started talking about the “answer”. Comrade Onishchenko had previously instilled fear in both Moldovans and Georgians, but now he has reached far abroad.

Michael McFaul, the US ambassador to Russia, spoke about the decision of Rospotrebnadzor on Twitter: "This is the worst unfortunate development of events," and US Agriculture Secretary Tom Wislak and US Trade Negotiator Ron Kirk called on Russia to lift the restrictions.

But the words of Onishchenko cannot be broken. And why should he cancel the decision if many countries of the world made the decision exactly the same earlier? Did they condemn them in the US?

Gennady Grigorievich сказал America: “It remains only to regret that analysts of the American Federation for the Export of Meat lacked just a bit of imagination to classify the 27 countries of the European Union, China and all other 167 countries, in which the use of this drug is banned by the US Senate, the scientific rationale for the safety of which is a huge doubt. "

According to the head of Rospotrebnadzor, the ban to add hormones to meat imported into Russia is dictated not by politics, but by food safety: "In Russia, there is no national standard for ractopamine and is not included in the register of drugs registered and allowed for use in the country."

American piglets and bull-calves, having cracked ractopamine, grow too fast. The chief state sanitary doctor of Russia has information that ractopamine use is accompanied by a decrease in body weight, impaired reproductive function, and an increase in mastitis.

Professor of the National Research University of the Higher School of Economics in conversation with a correspondent "Voices of America" He noted that the situation that has now arisen in connection with the introduction of restrictions on the supply of meat from the United States "does not constitute anything that goes beyond the limits of WTO practice." He said: “The Russian side proceeds from the fact that it does not violate the rules of membership in the WTO. Bans can be entered if they have a scientific rationale. In the course of consultations, Russia will have to submit its scientific justification for the ban. The conflict will be resolved if the United States considers the rationale acceptable. ”

While accusing the chief Russian sanvrach of political zeal, Americans forget that another department, the Rosselkhoznadzor, warned the veterinary services of Canada, the United States, Mexico and Brazil in September about a new rule regarding ractopamine testing. BUT this department everything can, because he is in the hands of "the function of protecting the population from diseases common to humans and animals." Therefore, before the entry into the game of Comrade Onishchenko, the American senators had time to think before adopting the “Magnitsky Act”.

Ii. Beef and fighter

Brazil also found itself in a difficult position, which the Rospotrebnadzor and the Rosselkhoznadzor also came to grips. In this country, was discovered a whole veterinary and sanitary "bouquet".

Restrictions on Brazilian exports to the Russian Federation were introduced in June 2011. They were considered temporary and were taken due to some (not widespread) inconsistencies of products with sanitary standards. It was about several Brazilian states, where farmers too fed cows with growth hormones. For Brazil, the question of exporting beef was extremely important, especially considering that Russia is the first meat exporter, and since August 2011, trade has gradually resumed.

In press writethat Brazilian meat exports, despite sanitary restrictions, were stable in 2012. For January-October, Brazil has traded with us for 1 billion. 430 million dollars. (According to "Sheets", in January-November, this country provided 43% of Russian beef imports). In early December, it was reported that Russia is suspending a ban on the import of Brazilian beef. The resumption of exports from the three states - Mato Grosso, Paraná and Rio Grande do Sul, where they have previously indulged in hormones - will be based on issuing an additional accompanying declaration confirming the absence of growth hormone in meat. In January, 2013, this issue should be finally resolved - at the level of the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Supply of Brazil and the Russian Rosselkhoznadzor. However, Comrade Onishchenko can always say his word.

And only Brazilians have calmed down, as 11 of December has learned: Russia is again considering the need to suspend imports of beef from Brazil. The captious Rosselkhoznadzor, already almost convinced of the absence of unpleasant hormones in the beef, suddenly found in Brazilian meat some signs of spongiform encephalopathy (in other words, mad cow disease). Rosselkhoznadzor, like Comrade Onishchenko, is also easy to point out that there are other countries that have detected and sounded the alarm: for example, Japan, which buys Brazilian beef in very small quantities, suspended import following Brazil’s message to the International Epizootic Bureau about the discovery of protein, which is considered to be the cause of the aforementioned disease. True, the Brazilian authorities say that the protein was discovered two years ago, and the case was isolated.

It did not help that the Brazilian authorities imposed a temporary ban on the use of ractopamine in the country since December 12. Brazilian authorities have established the prohibition of ractopamine until the country has developed a system for separating meat production for domestic consumption, for deliveries to countries where the use of the additive is permitted, and to countries that have banned this growth drug. But what about Moscow ractopamine, if we are talking about rabies?

Feeling that it was a problem, President Brazil Dilma Rousseff got on a plane and went to Moscow. It was December 14. Dilma did not even regret her birthday, which she had to celebrate in the cold snowy Russia.

However, nothing happened to her. She looked at the Swan Lake ballet and returned to her homeland - to a country where there are many wild monkeys in the forests.

At the end of the Kremlin meeting, she said: “We sent all the information to the Russian authorities and we think that the embargo will be lifted as soon as the relevant analyzes are carried out.”

Analyzes in Russia can be done endlessly, one after another, in the intervals between them, finding more and more new signs of either mad cow disease, or the use of ractopamine, or discovering microbes that have never been seen before and that threaten the health of the entire planet.

Probably, the Brazilian side’s acquisition of Russian Su-35C fighters, which the Sukhoi corporation hopes to sell, would help speed up sanitary procedures. Previously, in 2006, this company was mercilessly excluded from the tender for the purchase of combat fighters (we are talking about 36 machines). For the right to supply under the contract worth 4-5 billion euros, the French company Dassault is now fighting the Rafale fighter jets, the American Boeing with the F / A-18 Super Hornet and the Swedish Saab with the Gripen NG combat aircraft ".

Dilma Rousseff made it clear to the Russians that the decision on the tender has not yet been made. “For now, we are very careful about costs. The decision on this contract may take additional time, depending on how quickly we manage to stabilize the budget ", - said she is in Paris, where she negotiated before flying to the capital of Russia.

Meanwhile, Moscow 14 December has achieved something. The parties signed four agreements, including a contract for the supply of seven Ka-62 helicopters.

Interestingly, Brazil hopes to sell Russian aircraft itself - no, not military, passenger. Vice President of Embraer Jackson Medeiros de Farias Schneider, who also visited Moscow, сообщилthat interstate aviation The committee issued a Type Certificate for the Embraer-190 Brazilian medium-range aircraft. A rather interesting step, especially since this model would become a competitor in the domestic market of the Russian Federation for the Sukhoi Superjet 100 project. Moreover, Embraer intends to sell up to 150 airliners in Russia by 2020. Apparently, Brazil is tired of selling meat, sugar, coffee, tobacco and soy.

Recently, new technical talks between the Rosselkhoznadzor and the Brazilian Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Food Supply have been held in Moscow. The Brazilians assured that they are ready to fulfill any requirements of the Customs Union and Russia and provide oral and written guarantees for the quality of meat products. No more ractopamine and no gram of rabies. Solid healthy meat grown unhurriedly antiquated way.

Following the meeting, experts from the Rosselkhoznadzor сообщили the press that both parties expressed satisfaction with the results of the negotiations and the intention to continue mutually beneficial cooperation in the field of veterinary supervision.

It is difficult to say what leads where: the lifting of the embargo on Brazilian meat to the aircraft tender, or the tender to cancel the embargo. In the same way, it is also difficult to suppose whether Comrade Onishchenko was referring to the “Magnitsky Act”, or simply the dates ominously coincided. But one can assume that if Comrade Onishchenko does not object, the Rosselkhoznadzor will accept Brazilian documents, and the Russians will buy even more Brazilian meat, then the Sukhoi corporation will have to solve the question posed in the back: "SSJ 100" in Russia Brazil. Because Dilma and Jackson Medeiros de Farias Schneider, following the resolution of questions about meat and Soo, are not too lazy to fly to Moscow again - for the sake of the Embraer-35 aircraft. Lobbying at the state level is now accepted. Even Hillary Clinton, who recently tried to promote the interests of the private company Westinghouse in the Czech Republic, is not shy about doing this.

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    1. +3
      27 December 2012 08: 33
      Everywhere in the first place is politics and this, in principle, is normal. And what, does the United States make all its decisions in accordance with international law?
      1. +8
        27 December 2012 08: 50
        laughing I don’t understand something — can anyone poison us in favor of the Sukhoi corporation? Or are there such planes that nobody needs?
        The art of politics is to achieve their goals by any means, even military ... And now Russia can choose and select what we have ...
        1. +3
          27 December 2012 09: 49
          domokl:
          The fact of the matter is that we ordinary people will never know the degree of purity of products until we feel for ourselves ...
        2. +13
          27 December 2012 10: 08
          All meat that you eat contains certain "prohibited" substances. These are the consequences of modern Russian capitalism, I am telling you as an agricultural producer. But sometimes all sorts of agricultural holdings can play too much and then guys from the counter appear. departments of the Ministry of Agriculture and away we go ... Onishchenko - he is like a traffic policeman (I think you will understand the idea), actually "Brazil crossed the double line" and now she dances to our tune, if only the "rights" are not taken away smile
          1. rolik
            +3
            27 December 2012 13: 02
            Retx
            That's right, and there is enough growth in our meat. And you can not even talk about the loins, shreds and other stuffed above any measure. But if there are levers of pressure and lobbying our interests, why not use them. And who will be this stop crane Onishchenko or another person does not matter.
          2. +2
            27 December 2012 17: 33
            Quote: RETX
            All meat that you eat contains certain "prohibited" substances.

            Now it is considered a good form - to completely abandon the consumption of meat. It’s good for health, and for the psyche - good, and for the environment better. And now, judging by the article, it can also help the state in global politics. :)))
            1. +1
              27 December 2012 18: 33
              I will say this - this is not a good form, but simply "Western fashion". Meat is useful in moderate portions, a person is by nature a predator and he just needs it, you just need to know where to buy and cook it correctly. That's all.
              PS whether or not to be a vegetarian is a private matter for everyone, no need to argue about this.
      2. sv-sakh
        +9
        27 December 2012 08: 51
        Russia has only two weapons to deter aggression - ICBMs and Onishchenko good
      3. +1
        27 December 2012 09: 47
        Vladimirets:
        For states, domestic laws have long been above international ones. And in international politics, the law of power is the only right that they recognize ... To live with wolves - howl like a wolf!
      4. +1
        27 December 2012 16: 09
        This is called a Symmetric Response. We, according to the Magnitsky list, do not ship our "meat" to them in the form of our oligarchs with money, they do not ship their meat to us with ractopamine.
        All honestly.
    2. +26
      27 December 2012 08: 43
      Onishchenko is the most powerful trump card of Russian diplomacy!
      Time after time, without a miss, he beats foreign bourgeoisie to the most painful place!
    3. homeland
      +8
      27 December 2012 08: 49
      Like it doesn’t matter whether they import it or not,I buy only Russian products and I advise everyone wink
      1. sv-sakh
        +3
        27 December 2012 08: 53
        And who told you that they are ours?
        When under the LLC "Horns and Hooves named after Lenin" may be FE "Sun Hun Vchai" as the main supplier of raw materials, and at the enterprise named after Lenin there is only packaging in small containers ... wink
        "Behold at the root" as they say ...
        1. homeland
          0
          27 December 2012 09: 15
          Be careful when buying and there will be no Chinese meat on the table
          1. sv-sakh
            +1
            27 December 2012 10: 11
            You’re just like a child))))))))) You don’t understand what stew it is, from soy or not from soy, you won’t understand until you open it .. So there is at least some kind of packaging and at least some kind of composition.
            And for meat, how to determine where it grew ?? laughing Here is how? You can of course call on the spirit of the slaughtered cow .. conduct a spiritualistic session, and personally ask the cow where it grew .. but something seems to me it's not real
      2. sq
        +3
        27 December 2012 10: 31
        Actually, you are right, but you can only be completely sure that you can buy domestic products of the proper quality by personally producing them, that is, growing / fattening yourself with feeds / fertilizers, of which you are completely sure.
      3. 0
        27 December 2012 12: 06
        Russia provides 10% for itself with beef. The whole sausage on the Russian shelves is made of imported meat. sad
        We do not have such pastures as in Brazil the USA and Argentite. Russian beef is obviously more expensive.
        1. +5
          27 December 2012 14: 11
          How is it no pasture? Look how many waste fields are overgrown with weeds and weeds in central Russia, I don’t want to pass! And the Urals with the Far East? I feed my chickens and indolets (musky ducks) with grass from the garden and grain from the fields (I’m not an enemy to myself!). And in the market you can easily run into food of the most exotic origin and methods of growth. And by and large, you need to raise YOUR agriculture and not depend on anyone for food, because this is a strategic component of state security and independence. And for imports, if there is a place to be, to have draconian rules for import and sale on the territory of Russia. am
    4. +12
      27 December 2012 08: 50
      Many thanks to the USA for adopting the "Magnitsky law" !!!
      Now overseas meat with filth (ractopamine) will cease to affect our gene pool!
      Onischenka - for president!
      1. Cavas
        +4
        27 December 2012 10: 49
        Quote: Ward # 6
        Onischenka - for president!

        And I like your slogan, it fully matches your nickname! laughing
        And the most important thing is no responsibility, oh! request
        1. +1
          27 December 2012 18: 33
          Quote: Cavas
          And the most important thing is no responsibility, oh!

          Sulfur injection in the ass wassat
          1. -1
            28 December 2012 08: 51
            Ruslan67 (2)
            "Sulfur injection in the ass"- Do you still use sulfur?!?! The dense Middle Ages! My condolences ...
            Do you consider yourself normal ?! Illusion, Your Excellency, illusion!
            As our head physician says: "There are no healthy ones, there are those who are not fully examined!"
    5. +1
      27 December 2012 08: 54
      I hope our people know what they are doing.
      The main thing is not to do worse yourself.
      But actually - right.
    6. +9
      27 December 2012 09: 32
      Mr. Onishchenko is a strange figure, I would even say very amusing. A vivid example of what will happen if the authorities give the ideological fanatic. But, Mr. Onishchenko is disingenuous, oh disingenuous. But what about McDonald's, are they feeding perfect and ecological food? I myself have witnessed more than once how children throw a tantrum at their parents in response to their refusal to go to McDonald's. And Onishchenko himself, when he told that the products at McDonald's do not carry any threat (with amendment, if they are eaten once a month), to the question, do you yourself allow your grandchildren to eat it? Modestly downcasting his eyes said, no, we prefer healthy food. Thus, crossing out his answer about the "benefits" of big macs. He is diligently silent about GMOs, they say, what is it, what is it about, speak louder, I don’t know anything like that, and since I don’t know it means there is no such thing. And energy, and the poisonous color of toffee, and surrogates flooded the shelves of stores that are prohibited in Europe. And for this he cites Europe as an example. Yes, figs with her with Europe, let them eat what they want, you figure it out with us, support your native farmers and producers. And then they staged a phantasmagoria turning into another obscurantism.
      1. +5
        27 December 2012 09: 50
        Quote: Averias
        But, Mr. Onishchenko is cunning, oh cunning

        He does what he is told. This is his job. Received the command "face".
        1. Cavas
          +4
          27 December 2012 10: 23
          Quote: Middle Brother
          He does what he is told. This is his job. Received the command "fas"

          At least he does it on the orders of the Russian Federation, but some (we will not point the finger, although it was a "baby elephant" laughing ) do it by order of the phasington.
          And hto is better?
      2. +1
        28 December 2012 00: 13
        It’s in vain that you are against Onishchenko. It’s not his business to forbid parents, like unreasonable children, to feed their children any crap. All little educated people know that fast food is harmful .. What you need, he said. But convincing especially stubborn people is ungrateful.
        And for the country, he is a useful person. Maybe a little strange looking.

        PS I weaned my offspring from drinking cola very simply. In a glass of cola with him I lowered the "Neva" razor and said that in a week it would dissolve. After 3 days I pulled the razor out of the cup and threw it away, and gave the youngest a try: he almost vomited from the metallized taste of your favorite cola. "And your stomach will turn into a sieve." Now he has been drinking only water and natural juice. For 10 years already.
    7. borisst64
      +2
      27 December 2012 09: 50
      After slaughter, carcasses of pigs are stored for another day to increase weight. It turns out muscle tissue continues to grow. This is how they are pumped up?
      1. sq
        +2
        27 December 2012 10: 35
        There are very many ways to catch up. Another thing is that the quality of meat from this will not get better.
    8. Cavas
      +1
      27 December 2012 10: 20
      Accusing the chief Russian medical doctor of political zeal, the Americans forget that another agency - the Rosselkhoznadzor - warned the veterinary services of Canada, the USA, Mexico and Brazil in September about the new rule regarding testing for ractopamine.

      Oleg, thanks for this offer.

      In fact, here lies the answer.
      Knowing that the Russian Federation will refuse to import meat (and Russia warned about this for a year), the so-called "Magnitsky law" was invented.
      Now the US has a reason to appeal against the decision of the Russian Federation on meat in court, referring to "political" step of Russia.
    9. itr
      +2
      27 December 2012 10: 34
      Fun article laughing
    10. +1
      27 December 2012 11: 05
      Refusing foreign meat is strengthening the country's food security. You can blame Putin for a lot, but this step is almost a feat. With this action, he makes it clear that Russia will not be an avatar in the wrong hands.
    11. +1
      27 December 2012 11: 36
      that's great!
      Can’t we grow ourselves?
      and so the invoice does not lend itself to the number of bent collective farms and state farms
      and these are also people, their work, where should they go?
    12. nabludatel_56
      +5
      27 December 2012 11: 43
      Let’s figure it out with meat - we still have specialists on these issues, and the main one, Onishchenko, by the way, is a very good sanitary doctor.
      There are no medium-haul passenger aircraft. SSJ-100 is no good, and it’s not manufactured. No matter how much the Brazilian had to buy - generally shame
    13. Juga
      +8
      27 December 2012 12: 25
      According to various sources, the share of imported beef in the market of our country is 26-28%, which, in principle, is a lot. In the past (2011), over 607. thousand tons of cattle meat was imported into Russia.
      As far as I understand, our "businessmen" are not very fond of long-term investments, because it takes a couple of years for a bull to grow, and the same pig grows to marketable weight in 10-12 months, a chicken in one and a half. So there is a significant bias in the production of different types of meat, not in favor of beef. We are almost completely self-sufficient in chicken and pork.
      In fact, when I went shopping, I had not seen frozen pork and chicken for a long time, which is an indicator of its local origin, fresh beef comes across much less often, and the price tags for it are not very pleasant (compared to ice cream).
      So the whole consumption of cattle meat falls throughout Russia ...


      And so Onishchenko is a fine fellow, the right person in the right place, an ideal instrument of influence, because many countries only understand such a mode of influence - in rubles. After all, now in countries that have been banned, local producers with a good lobby will take the brains out of their governments, and this internal pressure will be more useful than foreign policy statements and "scribbles" in the style of the Magnitsky law ...
      1. Juga
        +2
        27 December 2012 12: 52
        According to the State Statistics Committee, in 2007 in the Russian Federation the average per capita consumption of beef increased by 0,9 kg and amounted to 18,0 kg per year, while the rational consumption per capita of meat products in terms of beef meat, developed by the Institute of Nutrition RAMS are 32 kg.
        According to the estimates of the Russian Meat Union, in the total volume of meat consumption, beef is 25% (2,5 million tons), while in 2005 it accounted for 31% of the market volume (2,7 million tons), and in the 1988-1990s. - 43% (4,3 million tons).
    14. +11
      27 December 2012 12: 33
      "onishchenko" - precision weapon of the Russian Foreign Ministry! Keep it up !
    15. Juga
      +2
      27 December 2012 16: 00
      Onishchenko, “it’s too hot,” a phrase about the upcoming holidays:
      “We are on the verge of a decade of horror, when the majority of the citizens of our country will be left to their own devices. And there is no more terrible enemy for our citizen than himself,” he said at a press conference in Moscow.

      So we will all be banned soon ... smile
      1. 11Goor11
        +2
        27 December 2012 20: 15
        He probably meant that we, like small children, are pulling all sorts of muck in our mouths. lol
    16. +2
      27 December 2012 16: 39
      Duc turns Onishchenko hero !!!!
      Russian Air Force will receive 36 more cars))))))
    17. biglow
      +3
      27 December 2012 19: 39
      Onishchenko called Putin's deputy for obscure issues
    18. +2
      27 December 2012 22: 43
      Comrade Onishchenko tightly took up the meat issue. In one sitting, the main man from Rospotrebnadzor put almost insurmountable barriers to pork and beef from the United States, Canada, Mexico and Brazil.


      Comrade Onishchenko is not a secret, high-precision weapon of mass destruction of our government. It is a kind of "economic nuclear deterrent weapon", fulfilling the task of ensuring the security of the economic interests of our country. "Partners" should know that we have our own worthy response to all restrictive actions in the person of the chief sanitary doctor of the Russian Federation Gennady Onishchenko and his department.
    19. 689valera
      +1
      27 December 2012 23: 10
      keep it up
    20. wax
      +2
      27 December 2012 23: 41
      It’s possible to make up, but products for which hormones are used are weapons against us (against the health of living and unborn Russian citizens), and such products must be effectively and reasonably screened without any bargaining
    21. +2
      28 December 2012 01: 39
      Times change.
      Earlier for the USA in the USSR, the chairman of the KGB was a problem.
      And in modern Russia, his place was taken by the Chief Sanitary Doctor.
      Soon, WTO members will see agents of Rospotrebnadzor everywhere, inspiring awe and horror among foreign food producers.
      Vladimir Putin needs to take G.G. Onishchenko to all kinds of negotiations; his tacit presence alone will make foreign politicians more accommodating.

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