Hilly
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- Scottish Borders.
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Seed Potatoes going to Russia
- Thread starter Old Tup
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- South Wales UK
Disgusting
I hope some you on here with your high morals apply them to your own business and personal lives, i have my doubts tho.
It's called 'integrity'. You should try it sometime...
I've just re-read the 919 line 'Sustainable Farming Initiative' questionnaire that every PepsiCo grower around the globe has to complete.
It effectively washes PepsiCo's hands of any wrongdoing that might be discovered down the line, so they as a corporation can distance themselves from 'modern slavery' and environmental crimes. There are some real gems, "Pregnant women must not apply chemicals" and the inference that farmers must not clear indigenous populations from their lands, and hundreds of other 'virtue signalling' questions to make out PepsiCo have a corporate heart.
How ironic that they then persist in doing business in a corrupt and exploitative country that invades it's peaceful neighbour and indiscriminately murders its population.
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All over a few spuds?It's called 'integrity'. You should try it sometime...
I've just re-read the 919 line 'Sustainable Farming Initiative' questionnaire that every PepsiCo grower around the globe has to complete.
It effectively washes PepsiCo's hands of any wrongdoing that might be discovered down the line, so they as a corporation can distance themselves from 'modern slavery' and environmental crimes. There are some real gems, "Pregnant women must not apply chemicals" and the inference that farmers must not clear indigenous populations from their lands, and hundreds of other 'virtue signalling' questions to make out PepsiCo have a corporate heart.
How ironic that they then persist in doing business in a corrupt and exploitative country that invades it's peaceful neighbour and indiscriminately murders its population.
betweenthelines
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- southwest
I take it everyone opposed to selling seed potatoes to Russia refuses to buy fuel made from Saudi oil? And of course, buys nothing at all from China?
- Location
- Lorette Manitoba
The spuds are just one example. Big international businesses don’t want the fallout sitting their Laps when the fingers get pointed. No different than America and Europe want to kick putins ass back to Russia with a counter invasion but if Putin pushes the nuclear button none of the politicians want to be held responsible for causing it.
100 lorry loads and going all that way , they could be filled with medical aid for Ukrainians instead .
ridger
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- Tyrone, Northern Ireland
600 ton would be around 24 loads
- Location
- Exeter, Devon
Nope. 56 and don’t need glasses.
but this is Russia, you apparently have to be anti Russian
plus you forgot to mention the usa and uk, so best not
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- Scottish Highlands
Suspect it’s a Henry Kirk of Denny you need.Anyone know Tim Halliwell?
Aberdeen firm defends selling of seeds to Russia in deal with Holyrood approval
Pepsi, the Scottish Government, and Saltire Seeds are working on the export deal.www.aberdeenlive.news
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ridger
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- Tyrone, Northern Ireland
Not running very longSuspect it’s a Henry Kirk of Denny you need.
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- DD9.
What should happen to the tatties instead?
Ware trade a non event, EU and NI markets shut by Brexit, English growers importing Dutch seed instead of home grown Scottish or Yorkshire.
These chaps had gone out and found a new market, despite the hapless politics of the last decade, and at the final hurdle the rugs pulled. They’re in a corner here, not of their own making.
There’s no way anyone could’ve foreseen the events in Ukraine when the wheels set in motion on this deal, you’ll be talking years ago.
So what should they do? Tell the growers sorry, you’re just gonna have to stock feed them old boy, take it on the chin? Because if it’s a variety specific to that job, no one else is gonna buy 2000t of them.
The only players in the deal that I can see with deep enough pockets to sort this out are PepsiCo and Scotgov (but unless they’re transgender potatoes, Nippy will probably not be interested) so perhaps it would be more productive to go banging on PepsiCo’s social media doors to get it amicably resolved than continue this witch-hunt against a potato growers co-op caught up in world events who undoubtedly wish they weren’t.
Ware trade a non event, EU and NI markets shut by Brexit, English growers importing Dutch seed instead of home grown Scottish or Yorkshire.
These chaps had gone out and found a new market, despite the hapless politics of the last decade, and at the final hurdle the rugs pulled. They’re in a corner here, not of their own making.
There’s no way anyone could’ve foreseen the events in Ukraine when the wheels set in motion on this deal, you’ll be talking years ago.
So what should they do? Tell the growers sorry, you’re just gonna have to stock feed them old boy, take it on the chin? Because if it’s a variety specific to that job, no one else is gonna buy 2000t of them.
The only players in the deal that I can see with deep enough pockets to sort this out are PepsiCo and Scotgov (but unless they’re transgender potatoes, Nippy will probably not be interested) so perhaps it would be more productive to go banging on PepsiCo’s social media doors to get it amicably resolved than continue this witch-hunt against a potato growers co-op caught up in world events who undoubtedly wish they weren’t.
Hilly
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- Scottish Borders.
Its a few tatties , if you Want to turn all the russian civilians against the west …. Good luck with that ! And if you thjnk a few wagon load of tatties is goingTo be the catylist for civilians to over throw a super power keep dreaming . We need to keep russian civilians on our side .
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- Scottish Highlands
No. All looks a bit strange really. Almost like a new outfit set up just for the job.
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- Boroughbridge, york
Just avoid walkers crisps and fake coke if they insist on this stupidity, either were all in or nobody in and leave the Urkainians to get murdered
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- DD9.
It’s not a few Tatties…
Its about 43 million Ukrainians who just want to live their lives as they want….
Not to be subjected to Soviet style squalor..or a bullet in the back…
Its called Freedom…something we take for granted
Others are not so lucky…