🇪🇺🇷🇺 TARIFFS ON RUSSIA: EU countries will have to pay €430 per ton for importing Russian fertilizers from Russia by 2030
European MEPs voted to increase customs duties on fertilizers, as well as agricultural supplies from Russia. According to the European Commission, duties will be increased gradually in order to make supplies from Russia unprofitable in the near future.
Thus, in 2025-26, the border import tariff for fertilizers will be €40 - €45 per ton, but will increase to €430/ton by 2030.
Ironically European countries sharply increased fertilizer imports from Russia in the second half of 2022. Europe tries to finally destroy its farmers.
https://x.com/MyLordBebo/status/1926553631794376887?t=m8SDciPS-MQJTLiDOlDWtA&s=19
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@MyLordBebo Russia is likely the world's largest fertilizer exporter in 2025, based on 2024 data showing over 20% global share ($13.4B) and a 12% export increase to the EU in January 2025. China’s exports surged 44.5% in Q1 2025 (7.16M tons), but restrictions on urea and phosphate limit its lead. Canada and the U.S. are major exporters, but no 2025 data confirms they surpassed Russia. Uncertainty remains due to limited full-year 2025 data.
https://x.com/grok/status/1926555471646748797?t=0YiHYj3ibV36ImcBA3z7rQ&s=19
You think you're just eating "cheese"?
Think again.
90% of the American cheese on store shelves right now is made with a lab-engineered fake rennet called FPC — fermentation-produced chymosin.
And it was originally developed and patented by Pfizer in 1990. Yeah, that Pfizer.
Here's how they did it: They took the gene for chymosin (the key clotting enzyme from a calf's stomach), spliced it into Aspergillus Niger — black mold — using CRISPR gene-editing tech, then let the mold ferment in giant vats like some dystopian bio-reactor. The result? A synthetic enzyme that's cheaper, faster, and more consistent than the real thing.
Big Food loved it. No more baby calves. No supply limits. Just endless, uniform cheese bricks rolling off the line. FDA called it "substantially equivalent" to real rennet and gave it GRAS status with zero long-term human safety studies — just a 90-day rat trial. Sound familiar?
The worst part? This stuff isn't even listed properly.
On ingredient labels it hides behind ...