Earlier this month, Russia responded to the sanctions imposed by the European Union and the United States and lifted an embargo on food imported from these two powers, but also from Norway, Canada and Australia.
The ban will last until August 2015 and, during this period, companies of these 32 countries will no longer sell the Russian market products such as meat, fish, seafood, vegetables, fruit, dairy products, among others.
Despite being imposed only 15 days, are already feeling the effects of the embargo. The animals in the zoo of Moscow are some of those who already feel the effects of trade sanctions, having their food rationed.
The handlers are looking for ways to replace the meat, fish, fruit and vegetables imported, but fear that the task to be difficult. The brown bears in the zoo, for example, have a special predilection for Polish apples, which are now banned from the food menu.
The only products that have not undergone embargo were the food for babies, and such exception left the animal keepers from zoos Russians little happy, as their animals had no such concerns regalia, the Daily Mail.
"Almost all products that animals consume in the Moscow zoo are imported," says zoo spokeswoman, Anna Kachurovskaya. "The main imported foods are fruits and vegetables. Many animals eat the apples bought in Poland, which are of good quality and cheap ".
According to the spokesman, the imported products that animals need are cheaper than domestic products and some food stuffs are rare or do not exist even in Russia.
"We cannot fail to feed the animals because of the sanctions. We are looking for new ways to buy the products. The problem, however, is not easy resolution because some of the animals are not ready to change the type of food to which they are accustomed. Some have geographic food preferences, "says Anna Kachurovskaya. An example of these animals are the penguins, that only eat fish that is fished in South America.
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