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
Fuck Off
That’s extortion.
That’s the point of the tariffs. We’ve held out against all sorts of American demands, so they ratchet up the pressure to sign a trade deal preferable to them and soon we are allowing minging food, dropping the Digital Service Tax and watering down the Online Safety Act.
It’s an incredibly crude way of negotiating but it’s not like Trump is known for his subtlety.
Which is the only way the Mango Mussolini ever knew of to get what he wants.
That’s part of why he’s so inept as a businessman: he refuses to consider the wishes, priorities, and well-being of others, even when doing so could benefit himself.
If Trump could read, I would recommend How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie. But I guess he would get tripped up on the parts about empathizing with others to accomplish mutual goals…
Getting his own way is what Trump calls fair.
We don’t want the meat off your sick chickens thanks very much!
As An American, I can say, our chicken sucks, you don’t want it europeans
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”
Grandfather Nurgle really is steering the US Isn’t it?
He is generous with his gifts.
You wash chicken in chlorine? What the fuck, why?
sanitary conditions don’t maximize shareholder value
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
They tell us here to buy american products…and then all the american products suck.
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.
Britain must allow US chlorine-washed chicken into UK markets
Go and fuck yourself.
I don’t buy that shit and I live in the US.
He can fuck off.
US factory farming is as disgusting as it is unethical.
Wouldn’t it be funny if the majority of the UK became vegetarian all of a sudden?
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.
