Godwin’s Law and Food Attorney and author Mike Godwin noted that the longer a discussion grows on social media, the increased likelihood someone will use the term Nazis or mention Hitler. The observation is that when it reaches the point of invoking a most despicable aspect in human history, a conversation has reached its end and the person invoking the term loses the argument. In global food trade, the threshold for such a demise should be the invocation of food safety. The Ukrainians are complaining that after blocking imports of its grain because it burdened Poland’s farmers, Warsaw has now suggested that Ukraine’s food does not meet the EU’s sanitary and phytosanitary requirements. Ukraine adopted EU standards b...

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