Summary

Donald Trump warned the UK must accept chlorinated US chicken imports if it wants relief from new 10% tariffs on British exports.

The U.K. has long reaffirmed its commitment to maintaining high food standards, with polling showing 80% of Britons oppose a ch imports.

Critics argue chlorinated chicken stems from poorer production hygiene, with studies showing high bacteria rates in US chicken.

Farming advocates warn a US trade deal with lower standards would be “devastating for British farming.”

  • @[email protected]
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    133 months ago

    who the FUCK would buy chicken from the US? if you want chicken you buy it from japan where you can eat it raw if you wanted to.

  • Hossenfeffer
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    63 months ago

    Watch out for the UK government removing the requirement for Country Of Origin labelling on food. If even a whiff of it stinks up your nostrils then chlorinated US chicken will surely follow.

  • @[email protected]
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    423 months ago

    Nah. Don’t do it. Call for a referendum to get back into the EU. I’m sure in these trying times they could speed run you guys back in.

    • @[email protected]
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      163 months ago

      I don’t see it happening anytime soon. To rejoin, they woukd have to accept all the new rules, one of them is adopting the Euro as currency. I’m not sure the English voters would be willing to abandon the Pound. Scottish, Welsh an Irish, maybe.

      • @[email protected]
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        93 months ago

        Perhaps after people start starving? Although the British are know for stoic acceptance of suffering…hmmm…maybe.

        • Synapse
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          73 months ago

          Can’t wait for my 1€ coins with Big Ben on it, and 2€ coins with beans on toast !

      • @[email protected]
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        13 months ago

        There’s more to just losing the pound than cultural attachment (though that’s very real) it would also limit the UK’s ability to dictate their monetary policy. Mind you ~25% of the EU don’t use the Euro, not least of which is Denmark which has a similar opt out to what the UK used to have.

    • Rikudou_Sage
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      73 months ago

      Not that I wouldn’t welcome UK back (under equal conditions to all new-joiners, of course), speed-running is not something EU is capable of. Nor is UK. They will not like having to accept the same deal everyone else has to when they had a lot of exceptions for everything. It will take ages before some kind of agreement is reached.

      • themeatbridge
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        93 months ago

        Not to mention, there’s at least one member state that will obstruct anything beneficial because the current dictator benefits from the chaos.

        • Rikudou_Sage
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          23 months ago

          Just tell them they won’t be getting those sweet Euros from the EU, that worked every time so far.

  • @[email protected]
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    433 months ago

    How is it even legal for the US to wash chicken with Chlorine ? Sounds like so ridiculous.

  • @[email protected]
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    113 months ago

    He’s doing the same shit with Canada and milk. American “milk” doesn’t even qualify as milk in Canada - has too many other ingredients like BGH and steroids and shit. But he wants us to buy his shitty undrinkable swill instead of buying our own hign quality dairy. No thanks!

  • @[email protected]
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    3 months ago

    EDIT: To clarify, I’m supporting the idea that the UK ignore Trump’s ultimatum. Like “Oh no, you’re saying we have to listen to your demands or be tarriffed? Anyways…”

  • @[email protected]
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    1513 months ago

    Studies have shown that washing food in chlorine doesn’t actually work as US authorities think. It can put the bacteria into a survival state called VBNC, viable but non-culturable. This means labs cannot culture the bacteria to test for its presence, but it is present and can still cause illness. It hides the problem, allowing for lower safety practices in favor of productivity and profit. Here is one such study: https://journals.asm.org/doi/full/10.1128/mbio.00540-18

    • @[email protected]
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      363 months ago

      All you need to do to not need the chlorine wash is to not treat the animals so badly that they shit all over each other due to lack of space. Improve their welfare improve the product, but no. Dollars come first.

        • @[email protected]
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          213 months ago

          The problem with most bacteria isn’t that they cause foodborne illnesses (what cooking prevents) but that there are dangerous byproducts created by them, which often are not destroyed by cooking.

    • @[email protected]
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      403 months ago

      Sounds like the american way. Hide the problem in the name of profits rather than finding a real solution.

      Note: am american, and hate this mindset

      • @[email protected]
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        53 months ago

        I’m still not convinced it wasn’t a fully orchestrated false flag. There’s too much about the incident and it’s aftermath that’s deeply suspicious.

        • @[email protected]
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          3 months ago

          That he missed because an officer was peeking over the edge is still believable, though.

          It helped trump, so everything is possible

    • Björn Tantau
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      63 months ago

      No, don’t kill him. Let him develop Long Covid and then waste away in his own filth.

      • @[email protected]
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        83 months ago

        Mentally, Donald is a toddler. Developing Long Covid and wasting away in his own filth wouldn’t even jar him from his daily routine. He doesn’t have the mental capacity to understand right and wrong. It’s an absolute disgrace that homeless veterans freeze to death on the street while that asshat gets rushed to Walter Reed to get state-of-the-art treatment.

      • themeatbridge
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        433 months ago

        The first time around, I said I didn’t want him dead because I wanted him to face justice. I wanted him to rot in a cell while he watched the world prosper without him in power and see his efforts dismantled.

        That was misguided.

        • Björn Tantau
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          3 months ago

          Well, at least unfortunately he doesn’t have the variant that shuts down all your energy and makes you unable to leave the bed.

          • @[email protected]
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            23 months ago

            He has amazing levels of energy for being a fat old man who can’t walk down a ramp. It could be the drugs.

  • @[email protected]
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    223 months ago

    I’d rather go out of my way to avoid buying anything from the US, which is exactly what I have started doing.

  • Destide
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    33 months ago

    Please don’t I need my quorn roarsomes and it’d just make people pivot to eating all my quorn roarsomes