On November 30, 2018, the 41st President of the United States, George Herbert Walker Bush, died. George Bush Sr. lived a long and eventful life. Born to a senator and a banker, he did not flee from World War II and at the age of 17 he entered the military, where he became the youngest pilot in the US Navy. Until the very end of the war, he participated in the fighting. After the end of the war, he was engaged in business, in the mid-60s he went into politics. In 1976-1977 he headed the CIA. Finally, in 1989, George W. Bush - the elder reached the highest point of his career - became President of the United States.
The presidency fell on a difficult economic period in the country, and due to the forced increase in taxes, he could not be re-elected for a second term. In foreign policy, the period of his reign coincided with great changes in the world. Under George W. Bush, the US conducted major military campaigns in Panama, the Philippines and, of course, the Persian Gulf. But the most significant event of this period was the collapse of the USSR. And if Ronald Reagan in the post-Soviet space is accused of completely exhausting the Soviet Union with his "Star Wars", bringing it to collapse, then George W. food products in Russia.
A young George W. Bush (center) with Joe Reichert (left) and Leo Nadeau during World War II
Chicken legs, nicknamed "Bush legs" have become one of the symbols of the 90s. Deliveries of American chicken began in 1990. The food situation in the USSR had already become critical. There was less and less food, the queues were getting longer, but friendship with the United States was getting stronger. As a result, Mikhail Gorbachev and George Bush Sr. signed a trade agreement on the supply of frozen chicken legs to the USSR. Chicken meat is considered "meat for the poor" all over the world - it is the cheapest and most accessible source of animal protein. Not just chicken was supplied from the USA, but the cheapest part of the chicken, the chicken legs. Some say that those deliveries were essentially a "waste sale" to Russia. However, it would not be an exaggeration to say that the cheap "Bush legs" helped the Russians a lot in the 90s. There was no choice. Or American chicken, or no meat at all.
Around the "Bush legs" and today there are many myths and legends. It is believed that this meat was harmful because the hormones and antibiotics that chickens were fed on American farms settled in the chicken legs. There were rumors that people who constantly ate these legs had reduced immunity and allergies. Some argue that "Bush's legs" are NATO's strategic stockpiles, which were stored in American warehouses for ten years, and in the 90s were very profitably sold to Russia. And a separate suspicion was caused by the whiteness of the meat.
Photo: Vitaly Belousov / TASS
In fact, in the United States and in the 90s there was very strict control over the production of meat. The poultry industry employed thousands of government inspectors who constantly monitored compliance with standards. Each bird was tested at least four times and complied with all American regulations. The reason for the whiteness of the meat was treatment with chlorine in a small concentration (no higher than in drinking water). Poultry hormones were banned in the US in 1972. And antibiotics for the prevention of bird diseases were used exactly the same as in Russia.
One of the main myths is that snickering Americans eat only white meat, and throw out the legs and wings, and that waste was sold to Russia. The myth is only partly true. Americans are really willing to consume white meat. However, just look at American fast food, and the absurdity of the assertions that Americans do not eat chicken wings and legs immediately becomes apparent. In the 90s, the Americans supplied Russia with a huge number of "Bush legs". In the second half of the 90s, 70% of chicken meat in Russia was of foreign origin. And most of them came from the USA. So, in 1997, the volume of American poultry meat imports to Russia amounted to 950 thousand tons. But the Americans themselves then consumed more than 3 million tons of wings and legs.
Another popular myth is that the Americans entered into an agreement with the traitor Gorbachev and destroyed the poultry industry of the USSR and the Russian Federation. In fact, Soviet agriculture was backward by world standards. And the food shortage was caused, among other things, by the low efficiency of technology. In the 90s, the Americans created joint ventures in Russia, brought in technologies, finished equipment, and today's poultry farms in the Russian Federation copy American ones.
As the share of domestic production grew, the percentage of "Bush legs" imported by Russia gradually fell. But they were delivered to the country until 2014. In 2014, the Russian government, in response to US sanctions against Russia, imposed sanctions on the Russian population, banning the supply of all meat products from the United States.
The story about "Bush's legs" would be incomplete without mentioning humanitarian aid for Russia in the 90s. The most famous episode was Operation Provide Hope ("Give Hope"). It was a US Air Force operation to deliver humanitarian aid to the CIS countries. Heavy military transport aircraft delivered food and medicines. Over the 20 years of the program, 985 flights have been made with the delivery of 24,000 cargoes of various types. Operation Provide Hope was largely propaganda. Its volumes are insignificant against the background of assistance from other organizations and countries.
From the beginning of 1991 to January 9, 1992, Russia received 284,000 tons of foreign humanitarian aid, including 246,100 tons of food. Until the end of the 1990s, the volume of humanitarian aid remained huge. Thus, in November 1998, the United States provided assistance to the Russian Federation in the form of 1.5 million tons of wheat and 100,000 tons of other foodstuffs. In addition, a $600 million loan was issued to buy food from American farmers. At the same time, the European Union allocated $500 million as a gratuitous grant for the purchase of food in Europe and $13 million for medical care.
In 1891, a severe crop failure occurred on the territory of the Black Earth and Middle Volga regions. State stocks of grain were not enough. The situation was aggravated by epidemics of typhus and cholera in 1891-1892. The number of deaths from starvation and disease is estimated at more than 400 thousand people.
The Russian Famine Relief Committee of the United States was formed to provide assistance to the United States. The first Indiana ship, which delivered 1,900 tons of food, arrived in Russia on March 16, 1892. In total, food aid worth $1 million was delivered from the United States at that time. In addition to food assistance, the US government provided financial assistance in the form of loans in the amount of $75 million.
But even more amazing was the US aid to Soviet Russia in the early 1920s. In 1921-1922, a massive famine broke out, covering 35 provinces. The Southern Urals and the Volga region suffered the most. The causes of the famine were the consequences of the Civil War, the drought of 1921 and the policy of "war communism" with food requisitions and the seizure of food. The number of victims of hunger was about 5 million people. Numerous cases of cannibalism are known. The Soviet government was unable to cope with the disaster and turned to foreign countries for help.
The main help came from the American formally non-governmental organization, the American Relief Administration (ARA). The first ARA canteen opened on September 6, 1921 in Petrograd. In early December 1921, the organization fed more than 500,000 Soviet children. In mid-1922, the ARA was feeding over 6 million people in its canteens. Assistance was also provided with food and clothing parcels, medicines, clothing and footwear. According to the estimates of the People's Commissariat of Foreign Trade, ARA imported about 595,000 tons of humanitarian aid. In total, the organization spent $78 million, of which $28 million was provided by the American government, $13 million by the Soviet government, and the rest of the money was raised through private donations.
People in Russia do not like to remember about the help from the "Americans". Especially today. Periods of state weakness are carefully pushed into the corner. Propaganda tirelessly convinces ordinary people that the insidious America is eager to destroy, tear Great Russia to pieces. However, having "collapsed" the USSR once, America did not finish off Russia, but, on the contrary, provided assistance, saving people from starvation. Russia, having slightly increased fat over the years of high oil prices, is again looking for confrontations with those who have helped it more than once in the most difficult periods.
The post was prepared by Alex Kulmanov
Nowadays, chicken legs are an ordinary and familiar product that many people in the country do not pay too much attention to. Moreover, people are so accustomed to their constant availability on sale that they even forgot their first name among the people - “Bush's legs”. And this despite the fact that a few years ago this product played an important role in building relations between the United States of America and the Russian Federation.
Rescue from hunger
At the beginning of 1990, the food situation in the disintegrating Soviet Union was critical. Food became less and less, and people's lines, on the contrary, increased at a crazy speed. However, at the same time, friendship with the United States grew stronger every day. And at a certain moment, the then head of the USSR, Mikhail Gorbachev, signed, in a sense, a historic agreement with his American colleague George W. Bush, which stated that the United States would supply frozen chicken legs to the Union, which ended up painfully familiar to us. the name "Bush legs".
Economic component
Such a decision in the current situation was, of course, beneficial to both parties. The USSR was getting rid of the food crisis, and the United States found a huge market for its not always good food products. “Bush legs” began to be delivered to the Union also because the vast majority of Americans gave their preference exclusively to white chicken meat, which is why chicken legs sold very poorly on the US domestic market, as a result, there was an oversupply of them. Therefore, Bush Sr. decided that the sale of this product in the USSR would be economically feasible and fully justified from an economic point of view.
Lifesaver
As time has shown, "Bush's legs" in Russia turned out to be a real salvation for ordinary citizens of the country during the period of huge deficit that took place during the period of the planned economy. And even when Boris Yeltsin came to power with his determined idea of a free market, thanks to which the prices of all goods increased significantly, American-made chicken legs were still both widely available and relatively stable in value. This gave a good opportunity to feed people with low material incomes, because even one “Bush leg” made it possible to cook a hot dish (soup or borscht) for the entire average family.
manipulation tool
In 2005, a special trade agreement was signed between the Russian and American governments, according to which, until 2009, 74% of the quotas of all chicken meat imported into Russia should belong exclusively to the United States. At the same time, it was indicated that each year the indicator of deliveries had to increase by 40,000 tons. In addition, American chicken legs were sold in the Russian Federation at dumping prices, which literally killed local poultry producers who were unable to withstand Western competitors. Of course, thanks to this, the US economy, even on the outskirts of Alaska, stood on "Bush's legs" - so gigantic was the income of Americans from chicken meat sold overseas.
Such a contract made both parties hostage. "Bush's legs", photos of which are given below, have become a real lever of political blackmail for both Russia and the United States. The thing is that it was already extremely difficult for the Russian Federation to refuse this product because of its simply crazy popularity among the people. At the same time, the Americans were also not interested in losing such a gigantic sales market as Russia, because at that time 40% of the export of chicken legs fell on it.
Ultimatum
In 2006, Russia delivered an ultimatum to the United States, which stated that the trade preference for the import of agricultural products (including "Bush legs" as well) would be canceled if the protocol for Russia's accession to the World Trade Organization was not fully agreed and approved within three months. (WTO).
epiphany
Over time, when the long-term euphoria from the availability of cheap chicken products has passed, serious questions began to arise. Ordinary citizens of the country began to worry very much whether it was even possible to eat the “Bush legs” that they had already loved so much, the calorie content of which was quite high (158 kcal per 100 grams of product). Repeatedly conducted expert checks stated that in these chicken legs the concentrations of various hormones and antibiotics administered to the bird in the process of its active growth are simply prohibitive. As a result, lovers of such legs began to undergo a significant decrease in the body's immunity and the occurrence of various dangerous allergic reactions. In addition, there was information that American chicken contains large doses of female hormones, which are extremely detrimental to the male body.
It also became known to the public that American poultry producers actively use chlorine in their factories. At the same time, the US authorities allowed the concentration of this chemical element in the ratio of 20-50 parts per million. According to the owners of poultry farms, such slightly chlorinated solutions are not capable of posing a danger and a threat to human health. At the same time, even such meager information turned out to be quite enough for sanitary doctors to sound the alarm, and potential and existing consumers to think about the rationality of purchasing such chicken legs.
However, this information in no way stopped many, and people still continued to acquire American legs that had already become almost native. And even if a person wanted to buy chicken legs not produced in the territory of the United States of America, then brisk traders in the markets very often literally “crammed” them anyway under the guise of a product produced, for example, in Brazil.
international scandal
In 2002, "Bush's legs" were completely banned for a period of one month. The reason for this was the situation when salmonella pathogen bacteria, dangerous to human life, were found in chicken legs imported from the United States of America. This scandal significantly damaged the reputation of American suppliers and aroused the distrust of Russians in them.
Taboo
American goods have repeatedly become the subject of ridicule of many comedians, and the famous satirist Mikhail Zadornov “walked” on them. Bush's Feet, however, has been banned since January 1, 2010. This was due to the fact that an order signed by the chief sanitary doctor of Russia came into effect, which stated that it was inadmissible to sell chicken products to the population, which are produced using chlorine compounds.
Import substitution
In August 2014, the Russian Federation introduced a complete trade embargo on all meat products and products from the United States. After that, the “Bush legs”, the recipe for which, over the long years of their supply, became known in many Russian families, completely ceased to be delivered to Russia. And already in May 2015, Dmitry Medvedev, who is the prime minister of the country, even stated that the Russian Federation could well fill its domestic market with chicken meat on its own. Therefore, today's chicken legs lying on the shelves in stores and supermarkets have absolutely nothing to do with the United States, much less with former President Bush.
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The Decree of Rospotrebnadzor "On the production and circulation of poultry meat" came into force on January 1, 2010. Lenta.ru.
There is too much chlorine in Bush's legs, so they do not meet the new Russian sanitary standards. Favorite city.
Since January 1, the import of American chicken legs has been banned in Russia. Zagolovki.ru 08:00
The head of Rospotrebnadzor, Gennady Onishchenko, told Interfax that the year allotted for the modernization of equipment has passed, but the partners from the United States have done nothing.
Gennady Onishchenko, Rospotrebnadzor, head of all plot quotes (30)
In the story: Gennady Onishchenko, Tom Vilsack, Sergei Yushin, James Miller, Albert Davleev, USDA, Rospotrebnadzor, National Meat Association
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"Bush's legs" is a common nickname in the post-Soviet space for chicken legs imported from the United States.
The name "Bush's legs" appeared in 1990, when a trade agreement was signed between Mikhail Gorbachev and George W. Bush for the supply of frozen chicken legs to Russia. Since in those days the Soviet counters were practically empty,
For 20 years they have been feeding the country with American poison ....
"Bush legs" are harmful to health, as antibiotics and hormonal preparations used in raising poultry are concentrated in the limbs.
However, the use of hormones in poultry rearing has been legally prohibited in the United States since 1972, and for the prevention of bird diseases, drugs that are allowed, including in Russia, are used. As a consequence of the use of antibiotics, people who often use "Bush legs" may have a decrease in immunity and allergic reactions, and consumption is not recommended for children.
American factories use chlorine in the production of poultry meat, while the officially permitted concentration of chlorine should normally be 20-50 parts per million. However, it is very difficult to check even this norm .. yes, this is done for the purpose of disinfection.
Similar methods are used in Russian poultry farms. The rapid growth of modern poultry breeds is explained by the improvement of breeding, rational nutrition, and disease control.
Gennady Onishchenko keeps "Bush's legs" out of Russia
Russian chicken producers abandoned harmful technologies
The chief medical officer is unhappy with the fact that Americans treat chickens with chlorine
The Chief Medical Officer is not happy that Americans treat chickens with chlorine.
Photo: PHOTOXPRESS
Since January 1, the Chief Sanitary Doctor of Russia, Gennady Onishchenko, has banned the import of poultry treated with chlorine into the country. The Americans were the first to react to the tightening of sanitary standards. US Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack said a delegation of US negotiators would land in Moscow on January 17. And he hinted that the bargaining for the supply of "Bush Legs" would go on a political plane.
We hope that Russian officials understand the difficulties the new rule will create for the industry in our country and in their country and for their consumer, as well as the impact on our relations in general,” said Vilsak.
According to our sanitary authorities, the use of chlorine in the processing of poultry meat gives it harmful properties. Therefore, Russian chicken producers abandoned such technologies. Now, instead of chlorine, our factories spray more harmless acetic and lactic acids over poultry carcasses.
Sanitary standards for chlorine should have come into force a year ago. But overseas poultry farmers are now pretending that the demand of the Russian authorities came as a surprise to them.
A year has passed, - Onishchenko is indignant. - There was not a single attempt to make any proposals from the American side. Only in December, officials from this country again raise the issue, and in the format: "We will not do anything, but buy meat." We pay foreign currency for this and have the right to demand the meat that our country needs.
Negotiations are not going to be easy. US representatives will surely remind Russia of Russia's desire to join the World Trade Organization. And Russian officials certainly understand that the rejection of cheap "Bush Legs" will hit the pockets of the poorest segments of the population in the first place. According to the National Meat Association of Russia, domestic poultry farmers produce about 2.5 million tons of meat per year. American importers supply more than 500 thousand tons. Stocks of inexpensive overseas chicken will last for 1.5 - 2 months. This time is clearly not enough to replace imported poultry with domestic ones. And the price of our products is more expensive than American.
Now our authorities need to decide whether chlorine-treated meat is harmful for Russians, says Sergey Yushin, head of the executive committee of the National Meat Association. The Americans are not their own enemies. They supply us with chicken legs, and consume white meat themselves. Therefore, if the government decides that chlorine-treated chickens are harmless, then the situation in the market will not change. And if the requirement for chlorine still remains in force, then we will have to prepare for a rise in prices.
According to a survey conducted by the research center ROMIR last summer, "Bush's legs" are bought by 3/4 of Russia's population. The reason for the popularity of chicken legs is simple - they are 10-15 percent cheaper than Russian ones. US Trade Representative Robert Zelik said that Washington, in response to the cessation of chicken imports, could block Russia's entry into the World Trade Organization and not repeal the discriminatory Jackson-Vanik amendment.
American chicken legs, popularly known as "Bush legs", are dangerous to health.
This conclusion was reached in the Russian Ministry of Agriculture.
“We have 10 confirmed samples of US-produced poultry meat, which are confirmed by American veterinary certificates. They gave a result for the presence of pathogenic bacteria - salmonella," said Sergey Dankvert, First Deputy Minister of Agriculture of the Russian Federation.
Conclusions of the Leningrad Regional Veterinary Laboratory after examining 10 different batches of American chicken legs. In all the same diagnosis: salmonellosis. A disease that is fatal in many cases. But in American veterinary certificates there is not a word about this. A lot of confusion in the documents.
“The documents contain the container number, which matches our container number. Next - the ship "Senator Vladivostok", and the "Utah Johanna" comes to us. That is, we are talking about the fact that the certificate was issued when loading on the wrong ship,” Sergei Dankvert notes.
The very name "Bush's legs" appeared in 1990, when President Bush Sr. signed a trade agreement with Mikhail Gorbachev. And a month later, a stream of frozen chicken limbs poured into Moscow. The counters in the shops were empty then, and "Bush's legs" were in great demand. Real passions were seething in kilometer-long queues.
In the meantime, the United States continued to ramp up supplies by expanding production. And now "Bush's legs" are one-fifth of all American exports to Russia.
The Americans themselves do not eat chicken legs !!!. They prefer organic white meat - breasts, and red meat or legs, so as not to be thrown away, are sent to the needy, making a lot of money on this. The minimum is half a dollar per kilogram.
Three months ago, Ukraine banned the import of American chicken legs, China did it even earlier. The fact is that antibiotics accumulate in the limbs of broilers, which Americans use when growing them. The same antibiotics that treat people.
“When a person consumes this meat with antibiotic residues, they naturally accumulate in the human body. Now the person is sick. The doctor prescribed him the same penicillin for treatment. And in the body a certain amount has already accumulated. Thus, the therapeutic dose is violated,” said Vladimir Fisin, First Vice President of the Russian Academy of Agricultural Sciences.
As a result - a decrease in immunity and severe allergic reactions. This is especially dangerous for children. On one side of the scale was the health of the nation, on the other - the commercial interests of American partners. And the Russian Veterinary Department made a choice: it banned the import of American poultry. Until the United States brings its veterinary standards into line with Russian ones. For negotiations on the bird issue, an expert group of eight people went to Russia from America. This ban, according to the head of the Foreign Ministry, is not a political or even economic measure, but purely medical.
“All over the world today, the requirements for food products are increasing. It `s naturally.
Russia has its own requirements. And they must be respected by all. Once again I want to say that this is a technical problem and it should not be politicized, let alone raised to the same rank of bilateral disputes,” Igor Ivanov said.
So far, "Bush's legs" have covered 61 percent of Russia's need for chicken meat. And if the ban is delayed, then this vacated niche will have to be filled with something. The Ministry of Agriculture is confident that there will be no vacuum. American meat will be replaced by better European meat. And then their own, Russian. Professionals say that this will happen in 2-3 years.
“Taking into account the fact that in Russia there are a lot of old poultry farms that require little restoration. A small amount of investment in Russia will be enough to revive them and revive them so that they can produce poultry meat today. There will be no catastrophe,” says Naum Babaev, chairman of the board of directors of the Mikhailovsky APK.
The Petelinsky Poultry Farm supplies half of Moscow and the Moscow Region with chicken. Increasing production and maintaining the brand. Otherwise it is impossible. The price of Petelinsky chickens is 10-15 percent higher than that of "Bush's legs". It remains to take the quality.
Only one poultry farm produces 50 tons of products per day. These are more than forty thousand broiler chickens, each of which goes through a full cycle in just 15 minutes: from receipt to packaging.
At the factory - medical sterility. At the entrance they put on white coats, caps and shoe covers, which are changed in each building. Poultry houses have their own microclimate. Constant temperature and humidity. Ultimately, this will affect the chickens. Parents are fed differently. Chickens are given more calcium, cockerels - vitamins.
“A cockerel should always be fit, efficient and always ready for mating,” emphasizes Nina Sedykh, director of the Galitsinsk poultry farm.
The eggs are sent to an incubator, and the chicks that emerge from them are groomed and cherished for another 36 days. As a result, one and a half kilogram broiler chickens are on store shelves. They are fundamentally not frozen, but only cooled. This is another advantageous difference from American legs.
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FORUM.msk: 58th Army will join the battle for the independence of Alaska?
From the Editor: Usually, the demarches of the chief sanitary doctor of the Russian Federation Onishchenko are not accidental - first, a ban on Georgian wine and Borjomi, and then bringing the 58th Army to full combat readiness.
Everyone knows that Alaska, discovered and developed by the Russian-American Company, was acquired by the United States on very dubious grounds, moreover, on a long-expired lease (a territory of 1,519,000 sq. km. gold, that is, at $0.0474 per hectare). No less dubious from a legal point of view is the annexation by the United States of the Hawaiian Islands, also mastered for the first time by A. Baranov, the supreme ruler of Alaska.
Neither the state of the Russian Federation, nor private individuals - the possible heirs of the discoverers of Alaska and Hawaii, are owed anything from these territories, on the contrary, we are witnessing the barbaric exploitation of the natural resources of these territories and the complete disregard for the interests of the local population, which is being subjected to genocide. Let's say the entire population of Alaska is less than 700 thousand people (even in tiny Hawaii it is almost 2 times more), the largest city of Anchorage is 270 thousand. At the same time, the indigenous population (including a small number of Russians) is only 88 thousand people. Orthodox Christians are subjected to the greatest oppression, of which there are almost 10% in Alaska.
The Alaska Independence Party is an American political party that advocates the secession of the state of Alaska from the United States and the creation of its own state. As of June 2006, the party has about 13,500 registered members. Founded in 1984 by Joe Vogler. The party calls for the transfer of federal land to Alaska, gun control, disenfranchisement of American military personnel in Alaska, and the withdrawal of American military installations from Alaska. In 1990, party representative Walter Joseph Hickel won the gubernatorial election in Alaska. In 2004, the party nominated its candidate for the US presidential election.
The indigenous population of Hawaii was subjected to an even more barbaric genocide: by the end of the 19th century, about 30 thousand people remained from the 300,000th Polynesian population. In 1893, with the direct intervention of the United States, Queen Liliuokalani was overthrown, and a year later the Republic of Hawaii was formed, which was directly dependent on the United States, and S. Dole became its president. In 1898, at the height of the Spanish-American War, the United States annexed Hawaii and in 1900 granted them the status of "territory" (in 1959 - the state). On November 23, 1993, US President Bill Clinton signed into law 103-105, also known as the Apology Resolution, which apologizes to Native Hawaiians.
I think it's time to help the struggling peoples of Alaska and Hawaii.
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President Medvedev, during his visit to the US and meeting with Comrade Obama, promised in return for the illusory support of the US in relation to Russia's accession to the WTO, to reopen our country to American chicken legs. Why has the export of chicken legs to Russia been so important for America for more than fifteen years? At one time I wrote an article on this topic. It was published in the newspaper "Russian Land", reprinted in "Slavonic Vestnik", "On the Islands" and the "24 Hours" digest. Also, an article printed on a printer was distributed at one time in the State Duma. I don’t know if this was also my merit, but then they banned the import of chicken legs.
Sorry, the article is long. However, in order to fully cover the topic, it is not always possible to briefly. So:
"Bush Legs" - a weapon?
“We have such a confusion with food here that the main thing is not clear: who, after all, eats whom?” Nikolai Matveenko "History of the area"
One of the symbols of perestroika, its hero was "Bush's legs". The Russian population has long forgotten who Bush actually is. But his feet will live in people's memory for a long time to come. With them, we lived through one of the darkest periods in our history. A huge country fell apart, more than one war flared up and went out on its territory, coups with coups succeeded each other, and Bush's legs victoriously marched across the USSR, the CIS and Russia.
During this time, attitudes towards them also changed. From a favorite Western delicacy, they have become food for the poor and dog food, which is the same thing with us. Gradually, we began to understand food and realized that the quality of Western products (at least those brought to us) is below any criticism. These products, at best, satisfy hunger, but do not cause appetite.
When we tried to abandon the American legs that had already trampled the domestic poultry industry half to death, the United States did not allow us to do this. The role of a traveling salesman, handing over the local chickens to us, was taken on by Vice President Al Gore himself, Clinton's closest person in position and spirit. He also went not to anyone, but to Chernomyrdin. Why does the US government really need us to eat their chicken feet? Caring for us? Fresh legend, but hard to believe. Of course, there is an economic factor, but is it really because of the legs that such large-scale efforts had to be made? At the highest level?
There is a feeling that the truth lies much deeper and in something else. Protecting the interests of American farmers at the level of top US officials is a primitive hoax. Yes, they would have eaten these legs somewhere else! Are there a lot of hungry people in the world?! But the US really wants them to be eaten in the former USSR and Russia. And nowhere else. Why?
But because they were originally intended for the stomachs of the enemy. Due to their unique qualities, these legs will soon put ballistic missiles, chemical, bacteriological and any other weapons out of work. In this case, neither the declaration of war, nor the conduct of the war itself, nor all other inconveniences will be required. The legs will do this legally, and most importantly, the enemy will pay for his own destruction.
Motives: Russia remains the only state that can resist the United States, especially when the political regime changes in our country, which is more than likely in the near future. And the United States never stood on ceremony with the enemy. Destruction of the enemy by any means is the permanent policy of this state from the first day of its existence. How did the current guardians of human rights begin their political and state biography? Since the genocide of the native inhabitants of America - the Indians. The conquerors did not shun any means. For example, blankets infected with scarlet fever and diphtheria, thrown to the Indians - and those who did not have immunity against these infections, completely died out. Or already in recent history, the bombing of peaceful cities in Japan. But today's image of the United States does not allow to do away with Russia in the open. Yes, now, with the advent of chicken legs, the need for direct aggression has simply disappeared. It seems that "Bush legs" is the best operation ever carried out by one country to destroy another ...
Here you need to relax. Let's speculate: What is the perfect poison? An ideal poison is one that acts slowly and imperceptibly for the poisoned person and others, manages to leave the body before the death caused by it (so that it cannot be detected in the laboratory) or take the form (metabolize, decompose) of ordinary substances that are in the body normally. And the type of death caused by it must be disguised as death from other causes, preferably natural. That is, death from poison should resemble death from a heart attack, stroke, pneumonia, etc.
There are a lot of substances that claim to be the perfect poison. They are used by the secret services of many countries. The press has already described more than one such case. For example, the liquidation of the Bulgarian dissident Markov in London. Ricin poison was injected with a syringe disguised as a simple umbrella, right on the street. Markov's death did not arouse suspicion. Until the details of the poisoning surfaced after the archives of the Bulgarian KGB were declassified. Or the poisoning of an African political leader by the CIA. His death until recently was considered natural, from a heart attack. And only thanks to the leak of information from the special services, it turned out that he died from the poison inflicted on the steering wheel of his car.
But these are, as they say, isolated, one-time cases. But the legs turned out to be a means, that is, an ideal poison that can bring an entire nation to the grave without a single piece of evidence!
How to make poison perfect? We will not consider all aspects in the scope of this article. But let's focus on a few.
Recall one of the latest developments for chemical warfare made in the United States, the so-called "V-gas". In one container there are several chemicals that are harmless to the body, even eat them. But at the right moment, under certain conditions, these substances combine into a superpoison capable of destroying a person in thousandths of a milligram or less, in fact, by several molecules. Modern means of chemical protection are practically powerless here.
In terms of effectiveness, these weapons are at the level of nuclear weapons, and in many respects they surpass them (for example, in terms of cheap production and the preservation of material assets in the zone of application). No wonder the United States is afraid of the appearance of such weapons in third countries. Suffice it to recall the events with Iraq, where a problem arose with the control over the production of chemical weapons. The US was preparing to start a new war with Iraq on such a seemingly insignificant occasion. But in this case, the Americans understand what they are risking, and they know what they are doing.
The example of "V-gas" was needed to explain how a deadly amount is obtained from seemingly innocent terms. So it is with our chickens, but more on that later.
Another problem: how to deliver the poison to the consumer? The military solution to the problem is known to all. The greatest effect will be obtained if it is done suddenly and imperceptibly. It's tempting to pull it off at no cost, and it's especially tempting to do it legally. It is desirable that the poison spread over the largest possible territory, ideally - throughout the territory of the enemy's country.
The best solution, it turned out, was to release the poison under the guise of a consumer product, and then there would be no need for missiles, bombers, saboteurs, and the like. To disguise it as a familiar product or to include it in a regular product is one way. But there is a smarter solution - to make an ordinary product a poison. This will require a set of measures: in our case, starting from a special diet for chickens, to selection with the connection of genetic engineering methods. And an innocent-looking product turns into a perfect poison.
Let's put it all together.
The troubles of the first person in the American government before our Prime Minister Chernomyrdin about the obstacles that arose from Russia for the supply of chicken legs. The Americans even resorted to severe pressure in the form of personal calls from Clinton to Yeltsin on the “hot line” (which is used in emergency situations, for example, in case of a threat of war). Knowing Boris Nikolaevich's affection for his friend Bill, and his readiness to serve the high friendship of his people, they did not miscalculate. In addition, the International Monetary Fund and the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development were involved, which threatened to stop all lending to our economy.
Efforts were not in vain. The flow of chicken legs to Russia has not been impoverished.
But why, having abandoned all the cases, the American government and the president started pushing into Russia the most common product, one of the many supplied to us from the United States. I repeat, the most common, like?
Further. The sharp decline in life expectancy of the Russian population. Especially in large cities of the country, which are the main consumers of chicken legs. Moreover, mortality increased from diseases that cannot be explained as a result of unfavorable factors that arose during the period of perestroika, although their certain influence cannot be denied either. The country was hit by an unnaturally high death rate for seemingly natural reasons.
Scientific, industrial, economic and cultural potential is concentrated in large cities. The population of these cities is the elite of the country. Therefore, the high mortality rate of this population group (namely, it is especially high at the present time: the average life expectancy of a specialist with a higher education in St. Petersburg is only 56 years, and in the provinces 58) will lead to paralysis and degradation of the entire country. It is incorrect to use the concept of genocide here, but ethnocide would be just right. It is impossible to say otherwise, and after a certain time the general intellectual level will simply drop to that critical point, after which it will be possible to say that the country is inhabited by "working cattle". But this is a dream - the presence of a population capable of only low-skilled labor with the richest reserves of minerals and the dominance of Western monopolies and capital, that is, Russia as a raw material base without pretensions to anything more - the cherished dream of the Western powers since the time of Hitler.
By the way, about history: immediately after the war of 1939-45. in the United States, the Dropshot plan was developed, where by means of twenty atomic bombs dropped on the largest cities of the USSR, they were going to destroy yesterday's ally in the war with Germany and Japan. In subsequent plans, only the number of bombs and cities destroyed by them grew. Cities!
The appearance of neutron weapons was considered by the Americans at one time the most promising. The neutron bomb preserves the bulk of material values, destroying only the population. In the American press, it was called the "humane weapon". Apparently, this was another contribution of overseas guardians of freedoms and humanists to the cause of philanthropy.
A new generation of weapons had to get rid of the last flaws of the neutron bomb. It was necessary to make it really selective, gradual, environmentally friendly, cost-free and even more “humane”. Imagine that the victorious army enters the city after the explosion of a neutron bomb: it is necessary to clear the city of corpses, put out the fires that arose as a result of the sudden abandonment of various equipment due to the instantaneous mass death of the population, restore the flooded subway, etc. etc.
It is a completely different matter if the action of the weapon is extended for a certain period of time - 5-10 years. During this time, the exterminated population was transferred to self-service. It not only buries itself, maintains material and cultural values in proper condition, but also creates new ones, quietly, gradually freeing up the territory for future owners.
The same enemy army will not only not spend money and effort by entering such cities, but may not enter at all as an army. She will move in like vacationers at a resort.
The fact that such weapons are being developed in secret laboratories is known. It is not known only what the "Bush legs" are - a trial balloon, a test or a full-scale action that is already being struck?
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American chicken legs differ in significant sizes. It seems like it’s good: we all love legs so much that since childhood we dreamed of a centipede chicken. But why do they grow so well in overseas chickens to our stupid joy? What are they being fed?
American agricultural technology is distinguished by methods of intensive cultivation of grain, meat and other products. Chemicalization of agriculture is extremely high. Various fertilizers, herbicides, pesticides, insecticides, growth stimulants are applied to the ground. The main group of these compounds are directional poisons, respectively, against insects, weeds, microorganisms. But not only them.
For example, herbicides used to control weeds are based on arsenic. In past centuries, it was the favorite poison of all domestic criminals. "Loving" spouses fed each other arsenic for more than a hundred years in a row, until the progress of criminology made it possible to expose this type of poisoning. The poison was mixed with food and caused death similar to natural. It was impossible to expose the poisoners for a long time. Even Napoleon on Saint Helena was poisoned with arsenic. And we remember that a high content of arsenic was found in imported chicken and pork meat more than once.
A lot can be said about other substances too. However, we go further. Plants concentrate in themselves everything that is introduced into the soil, and the bulk of this muck is collected precisely in that part of them that is used for food. For example, in the root crop, and not in the tops, in the ear, and not in the stem. Even if the level of these substances is relatively low in the grain, then when livestock and poultry are fed, a new stage of concentration of poisons in the tissues of the animal occurs. For one kilogram of weight gain, a minimum of ten kilograms of food is required. That is, after growing an animal, even a small dose of poison grows tenfold. Moreover, the concentration occurs again unevenly. Certain organs are saturated more than others. So, for example, substances containing iodine are collected in glandular tissue, strontium in bones and milk, herbicides and pesticides in the liver and muscles. Studies have shown that chickens have the dirtiest paws. The difference between breast meat and leg meat is so significant that only breasts are used for food within the United States itself. Moreover, the structure of the meat turned out to be so different in other parameters that the breasts were included in dietary products, and the legs - in technical varieties of meat.
Both when growing grain and when fattening animals, a lot of different growth stimulants are used - from banal nitrates to anabolic hormones. The consumption of products grown with intensive technology explains the acceleration phenomenon that has hit the industrialized countries. Our children, eating broilers, turn into broilers themselves. The intellect does not keep pace with the growth of the body. The needs of an early maturing body dominate the lagging mental development of the personality, up to its inhibition. In society, the number of mules with a rudimentary level of development of mental and moral qualities is increasing, which leads to further decomposition of society, degradation. No wonder there is an increase in child and youth crime, alcoholism, drug addiction and debauchery. The generation of accelerators, having matured, gave rise in the same USA to a phenomenon called the “broiler generation” and “broiler society”.
In adults, the consumption of stimulants leads to serious liver problems, disrupting the entire hormonal metabolism. Take bodybuilders. Of course, the doses of hormones that they consumed were significantly higher than those that come to us with meat, but the exposure (time of consumption) allows us to consider them commensurate. Bodybuilders of the first wave have already left, and among the subsequent ones there is a high pathology of the liver - cancer, cirrhosis, hepatitis. They have problems with sex, up to complete impotence. "Healthy" Schwarzenegger does not get out of various clinics.
Chicken fat is one of the most unstable fats. It decomposes when the temperature changes, it is easily oxidized in air, saponified, etc. The fact that fatty foods are harmful in themselves is known to everyone, it is trite to repeat here. Now we need to stop at the most important thing.
Fat at the "Bush legs" is divided into two types: subcutaneous fat and fat located directly inside the meat. Additionally, the fat that is inside the meat is also divided into two subspecies - fatty layers and the one that is directly inside the cell. Every second inhabitant of developed countries is driven to the grave by a friendly couple - fat and cholesterol.
Unlike pork and beef, chicken fat is easily spoiled and therefore not subject to long-term storage. It would also seem logical to freeze the legs caused and caused by this using the "deep freeze" method. This allows you to preserve, to some extent, their taste and relative, so to speak, “second-class freshness”. But freezing leads to the destruction of the cellular structure. Ice crystals rupture the cell membrane. Intracellular fat becomes available to atmospheric oxygen, it is oxidized, saponified. Cryogenic destruction (cold destruction) leads to the breakdown of fat molecules into shorter chains with active radicals. A similar thing happens with radiation damage and cell death. Fat metabolism in a dying cell follows a degenerative type. In medicine, this phenomenon is called lipid peroxidation. Resuscitators, having discovered lipid peroxidation in a patient, order a gurney to the morgue, because this type of “exchange” is a causal mechanism for the death of a cell in particular and an organism in general.
In the legs, this group of compounds is obtained artificially. And in significant quantities. And eating them is the introduction of components and programs of "cell death" into the body.
When freezing, another nuisance occurs: the death of vitamin E. The value of this vitamin is so great that it deserves detailed consideration. The population is least familiar with vitamin E. They came up with the name "reproduction vitamin" and put it at the end of the vitamin series. By right, vitamin "E" takes first place. It provides all the complex energy processes in the body, controls the metabolism of fats, hormones, and stabilizes cell membranes. And the stability of all cells means the viability of the organism. This vitamin is contained in active, full potency products endowed with growth energy: seeds (especially sprouted), eggs, nuts, caviar, fish oil. (Fish, unlike animals, grow throughout their lives and do not get cancer!)
Lack of vitamin E leads in mild cases to a decrease in vital energy, the appearance of unmotivated fatigue, etc. And in severe cases, to the death of the body. Formally, a person dies from adverse environmental influences - from stress (or rather, its consequences, materialized by numerous acute vascular pathologies), from harmless infections. But in fact - he lacks vitamin "E".
The ancient Jews were the first to understand the meaning of vitamin E. Their system of kosher nutrition, in principle, implies the maximum preservation of vitamin E. Only fresh food is eaten: everything that is cooked for breakfast is eaten at breakfast or thrown away, and not left for lunch. The storage of ready meals, their freezing and reheating are strictly excluded. As a result, we see the inexhaustible seething energy of the Jews throughout their lives and five thousand years of their history.
A reverse example: the indigenous peoples of the North, eating mostly frozen foods, from meat and fish to milk. All of them, unfortunately, are endangered peoples.
In modern times, understanding of the importance of vitamin "E" came from military biologists who were solving the problem of using dolphins in future submarine warfare. Dolphins kept in dolphinariums usually died after a few months. They could not find patterns in the death of dolphins, since the causes of death, in each case, seemed to be different. Activation of microbial, viral, fungal infections of various localization. But some time before death, a certain pattern was observed among dolphins: they became lethargic, withdrawn, lost their innate cheerfulness and friendliness. At first, this was interpreted as boredom, longing for will. So far, they have not paid attention to the difference in the diet in the wild and in the dolphinarium. The dolphins were fed the same fish that they themselves caught in the wild. But only the fish was frozen (more precisely: caught - frozen - thawed before feeding). Vitamin "E" decomposes at the same time.
The bottom line is that this vitamin is involved, as we said, in the metabolism of fats. And for the utilization of degraded fats (frozen and thawed), an additional consumption of vitamin E is required. It turns out that the body needs much more vitamin E, and its intake with thawed food does not occur. In medicine, this phenomenon is called the "vicious circle". That is, at the same time we introduce into the body compounds that program cell death, and immediately block the protective mechanisms of the cell itself.
Not surprisingly, dolphins died as a result of such a diet. It's amazing that we're still alive.
By itself, beriberi "E" is the basis for reducing the body's cancer protection, premature aging syndrome, chronic fatigue syndrome and other delights. Many housewives, intuitively feeling this, remove fat from chicken legs. But they can only remove subcutaneous fat. And they cannot remove extracellular and intracellular ones. Everyone knows what happens when fat is fried. Anyone who fries "Bush's legs" must understand that he is simply preparing a portion of carcinogens for himself. The word "carcinogen" is translated from Latin as "giving birth to cancer."
In the West, meat with a high content of intracellular fat is considered not only low quality, but unfit for human consumption. Such meat is considered there as a falsification of the product. This is such a Trojan horse, with the help of which fat, cholesterol, carcinogens and other muck enter the body.
At one time, the Baltic republics, after leaving the USSR, hoped to master the Western market with their products. But they failed, the sanitary services of all European countries rejected meat from the Baltic states, for the high content of intracellular fat. He was assigned the category of "technical meat". Therefore, the Balts have no choice but to continue to sell their meat products to Russian "buyers". True, now their conscience can be calm: they do not feed the Russians, but poison them.
But compared to US chicken legs, Baltic products can be considered dietary, because the amount of fat here is incommensurable. The unfortunate chicken legs also have a special protein composition. The composition of amino acids has been changed there - the so-called essential amino acids are simply absent. This means that plastic processes (the growth of the organism, the synthesis of its proteins) are impossible. If you feed this protein to children, they will get fat, not grow. And in general, the inability to maintain protein metabolism is death.
Now about one more thing. According to the materials of the Western press, it became known about cases of mass salmonellosis transmitted through chicken meat. In England and Scandinavian countries with significant mortality. There was even talk of a new epidemic. Data were given that about 75-90% of chicken meat is affected by salmonella. The percentage of infection increases with increasing storage time and transportation distance. This is explained by changes in the thermal storage regime, repeated defrosting and freezing. The exposure time of the microbe in meat increases, the likelihood of post-mortem infection increases, that is, infection after the slaughter of the bird. Legs float to us from across the ocean. Therefore, a lot of contacts with port, ship and warehouse rodents, or, more simply, rats. It’s not for you to bring chilled chicken from a local poultry farm.
The consumer gets into the scissors: with insufficient heat treatment, there is a high risk of getting sick with salmonellosis. And with prolonged high-temperature, which guarantees the death of salmonella, the amount of carcinogens rises sharply. Therefore, the choice is not rich: either salmonellosis or cancer.
To summarize all of the above, then the legs are a combination of harmful factors that potentiate each other so that the total harm exceeds the simple addition of these negative factors. That is, we have here the effect of "VI-gas", which was discussed at the beginning of the article. And the result is the perfect poison.
To those who hasten to object: “But what about our sanitary services?” - I propose to pay attention to the advertising by high representatives of these same services on television of anything from tooth powders to tampaks with diapers and medicines that they themselves have not tested. Pay them more, so they will call potassium cyanide a vitamin without blinking at the TV.
And if, nevertheless, the article did not convince you, then I can only wish you a pleasant appetite. And easy death
Yuri Yum.
The article was published in 1998 in the newspaper "Russian Land" No. 11-14, reprinted in the newspaper "24 hours" No. 13 in 2002.
