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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.
this post was submitted on 04 Apr 2025
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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.
Britain must allow US chlorine-washed chicken into UK markets
Go and fuck yourself.
just rejoin the eu and you don't have to worry about the us as a trading partner
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?
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
You really don't want the answer to that...
>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.
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
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We don't want the meat off your sick chickens thanks very much!
Fuck Off
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.
That’s extortion.
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...
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.
When (normal) people don't like you, force is the only way to get them to do what you want. Unrelated, but remember when a judge had to clarify in court that Donald J. Trump is a rapist?
Getting his own way is what Trump calls fair.
As An American, I can say, our chicken sucks, you don't want it europeans
“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
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.
Grandfather Nurgle really is steering the US Isn't it?
He is generous with his gifts.
This is the "drink bleach to cure COVID" all over again
He can fuck off.
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"
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.
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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.
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