The head of Russia’s food safety agency, Rosselkhoznadzor, said that the country will be replacing U.S. and Canadian beef and pork with meat from India and China. He added that the change will be permanent, even if the economic sanctions that Canada, the United States and other countries are enforcing due to Russia’s involvement in the Ukraine.
“Russia’s Far East used to be heavily reliant on meat supplies from the United States and Canada,” said Sergei Dankvert, as reported by Forbes. “Now that we are actively cooperating with China’s veterinary authorities on…pork supplies from certain highly-integrated Chinese enterprises, the U.S. and Canadian suppliers will not be able to come back.”