The former Deputy Minister of Agriculture proposed introducing discount coupons for meat in the Russian Federation.
They will be in demand among "obviously poor" people.
A massive transition of Russians to plant proteins instead of animal proteins is not expected. Leonid Kholud, an expert in the field of food policy, doctor of economic sciences, and former deputy minister of agriculture, shared this opinion on the "Moscow Speaks" radio station.
There is a market law of flexibility - if beef seems expensive to you, then you switch to pork, if your religion allows it. If pork is expensive, then go for poultry. Then from the bird to the egg. This is a common process where flexibility decreases with the introduction of a person. The transition process from meat to grains, from meat to plant proteins is an indicator of not particularly good processes in society. But we won't have it. People buy both poultry and pork from us. We have a certain number of poor people to be honest, and I'm in favor of the fact that we should have introduced electronic coupons a long time ago, not quantitative, but giving percentages of discount so that people can buy meat.