Britain must allow US chlorine-washed chicken into UK markets if it wants relief from sweeping tariffs, Donald Trump has indicated.
It comes after the UK failed to avoid tariffs imposed on the global economy, with the US president slapping a 10 per cent levies on all British exports to the United States.
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In a statement published alongside the tariff announcement, the White House said: “The UK maintains non-science-based standards that severely restrict US exports of safe, high-quality beef and poultry products.”
It suggested that Britain’s ban on chlorinated chicken was among a range of “non-tariff barriers” that limit the US’s ability to trade.
The UK has long ruled out allowing imports of chlorine-washed chicken from the US due to health concerns, with Downing Street on Thursday reiterating its manifesto commitment to high food standards.
Asked whether the UK could allow imports of chlorine washed chicken in order to appease the US, the prime minister’s officials spokesperson said: “Our position on that is unchanged. You’ve got the manifesto commitment on food standards, which obviously remains.”
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The last major polling done on the issue, conducted in 2020, revealed that 80 per cent of Britons are opposed to allowing imports to the UK, and the same proportion is also against allowing chicken products that have been farmed using hormones.
There is also growing pressure from the farming industry to rule out concessions on the issue, amid fears it could undercut British farmers and drive down food standards.
Nigel Farage admitted he would allow American chlorine-washed chicken to be sold in the UK as part of a free trade deal with the US.
“The UK maintains non-science-based standards that severely restrict US exports of safe, high-quality beef and poultry products.”
so now we care about science? but still not for climate change/vaccines
Science only matters when it fails to defend people he wants to fuck over
We don’t want the meat off your sick chickens thanks very much!
Next you tell switzerland to import and sell your chocolate?
No one eats that vomit tasting faeces except the US. I’d rather be forced to eat Cadbury.
Cadbury is owned by and American company now.
Yeah. It tastes like sugar bound together with wax, with a barely-perceptive flavor of chocolate. Cadbury’s gruesome, but at least it’s chocolate-like.
Ultimately the people have the power. Do not buy it.
It can be hard to know the origin of your chicken when you’re eating at restaurants and buying other prepared foods.
If I can’t tell then I’ll eat vegetarian options.
I think I’ve said before; If I can’t be certain of the origin of the chicken, I just won’t eat it in the future.
Step 1: force us to take minging chicken.
Step 2: force us to remove the country of origin because adding it is anticompetitive.
step 3: domestic producers start putting the farm of origin on the package, ultimately leading to more transparency and the complete annihilation of imports in favour of local production.
step 4: blame the liberals
I’d love to know farm of origin of takeaway food
Alleyway of origin, more like.
While you are technically correct, in practice it’s much harder
Monopolization, weak labelling laws, market delimitation and collusion all come in play to make sure the users cannot make an educated guess
At some point in the USA they wanted to introduce rotting meat which the industry claimed could ve made safe by irradiating. However, existing laws would require biohazard labels which nobody would buy, so the industry lobbied for the market friendly, consumer fooling, title of “cold pasteurisation”
The issue is not that the chicken is chlorine washed. It’s that it needs to be chlorine washed to be safe because of the terrible industry practices.
It’s bad for the animals, bad for the taste and bad for your health. So there is no reason to allow it when there is no supply issue. Food is more expensive but the savings from USA imports won’t change that in any significant way.
This is the “drink bleach to cure COVID” all over again
Okay what if we also wash the chicken in sodium? Then everybody wins!
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>It suggested that Britain’s ban on chlorinated chicken was among a range of “non-tariff barriers” that limit the US’s ability to trade.
Non-tariff barriers like checks notes food safety.
Non-tariff barriers like checks notes. Anything that questions the US rule he agrees with. As being anything but perfect.
That is his real irritation. He dose not think animal welfare is important. So any nation that bases rules on things he disagrees with is wrong. And must bow to his superiority.
If you put it like that, it sounds bad.
Non-tariff barriers like checks notes food safety.
Yeap, what do you think they mean when they rally against “rEGulAtiOns”
All they want is to cut costs and swallow extra profits
Well, let’s see if the UK will now be more interested in strengthening ties with Canada now that they are no longer spared. I don’t blame the UK for trying to stay out of the US-Canada tariff conflict, but eventually they’ll have to make hard decisions. Canada always stood by the UK, part of the British Empire, as a dominion and as an independent state. Canadians joined the UK to fight in both world wars, and many made the ultimate sacrifice which us, modern Canadians, honour with reverence. We never forgot our historical ties. Will the UK reciprocate?
Canada is and hopefully always will be a true ally and friend of the UK.
Are these the culled, disinfected and frozen cicken that lay no more eggs? Want to sell them off for damage control?
just rejoin the eu and you don’t have to worry about the us as a trading partner
You know the municipal water supply is disinfected by adding chlorine, right? https://www.water.org.uk/water-supply/drinking-water
There’s plenty of other reasons to not buy most poultry produced in the states, but it’s a bad idea to start fear mongering about chlorine.
It’s not the chlorine per se (although it would be heavily diluted in water) it is why they need washing in chlorine - because of the insanitary conditions the chickens are raised in that leaves them teeming with bacteria.
Agreed, but the headline and article mention chlorine many times. It’s become obvious the last several years that most people are unable or unwilling to put in the effort required to understand nuance in anything. So if the discussion on this topic continues to bang on chlorine, it could lead to a real threat to clean water and perhaps sanitation in general.
Instead they should say something like ‘chemically-disinfected chicken’. Because as you said, it’s not that chlorine is bad.
Grandfather Nurgle really is steering the US Isn’t it?
He is generous with his gifts.
Fuck Off
