‘Very selfish’: EU sanctions on Russia fertilizer will weaken U.S., food security

(The Center Square) – Sanctions the European Union is attempting to put on Russian fertilizer to punish the country’s invasion of Ukraine will unintentionally weaken the United States, hurt American farmers and families, and harm developing countries, according to a former ambassador.

Former U.S. ambassador to the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) in the first Trump administration and current America First Policy Institute vice chair for rural policy Kip Tom told The Center Square that the sanctions the European Union is trying to put on Russian fertilizer are “going to weaken the US.”

“It’s going to weaken our ability to make sure that we have a reliable and affordable supply of food [going] to the American consumers,” Tom said.

This is so because such sanctions will set off a chain of negative events, as Tom explained.

If the EU sanctions “Russian companies from selling fertilizer into the EU to farmers there to produce food, fiber, and energy,...