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Trump tells UK to buy chlorinated chicken from US if it wants tariff relief
(www.independent.co.uk)
Keep your filthy American chicken.
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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.
He can fuck off.
just rejoin the eu and you don't have to worry about the us as a trading partner
This is the "drink bleach to cure COVID" all over again
“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
US factory farming is as disgusting as it is unethical.
You're not using enough words to properly describe. I don't think there are enough words in existence to properly do so either.
Don't buy tainted food. Align as closely as possible with the EU and push back on this bullshit.
Or buy it for pet food. And demand the US buys our new fresh thames drinking water in exchange.
You wash chicken in chlorine? What the fuck, why?
You really don't want the answer to that...
Literally to kill some of the filth the chickens are raised in and fool safety tests
It's a shortcut in regulations to allow cheaper conditions at the expense of consumers' health and this was well established before Musk gutted the FDA
Buying any food stuff from the USA from now on would be equivalent to a modern wet market
when i’m in the US i literally feel nauseous constantly, my lips tingle, and my tongue hurts… i don’t know what the fuck is in the food over there but something is absolutely fucking me up
sanitary conditions don't maximize shareholder value
They tell us here to buy american products...and then all the american products suck.
Okay what if we also wash the chicken in sodium? Then everybody wins!
Wouldn't it be funny if the majority of the UK became vegetarian all of a sudden?
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.
I think we all know how this is going to end... Oh well looks like soon i'll have to cut all chicken out of my diet.
As long as they label the chicken, even if it's just with country of origin, this is a situation the market will handle.
Have you seen what they do to those chickens before they don’t wash it in chlorine?
>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.
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
If you put it like that, it sounds bad.
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?
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