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And that’s basically it!
Or, and here me out here, the UK and EU arrange the most passive aggressive reconciliation ever by removing trade tariffs from one another, then slap a huge tax on any assets owned by the ruler of a foreign nation in their territory.
There's no way that the uk is going to be ok with this. It's gross and not how the world works. Stop it America
The UK maintains non-science-based standards
Maybe look at who is in charge of your health department before your start complaining about "non-science-based standards"
They only say "Science-Based" as a dogwhistle to mean "Ignoring what science says about transpeople and substituting my own evidence based on ignorance and vibes."
The "head" of any department is often not a scientist. Scientists conduct technical work, they don't manage departments or orgs.
Right, but in order to be "science based" you do have to be led by someone who actually believes in and follows scientific consensus.
Not someone who doesn't believe viruses are the cause of disease, wants to revisit the fraudulent claim that vaccines cause autism, doesn't understand that people will die if you stop pasteurising milk etc.
Wait....does that mean Americans are currently consuming chicken thats been washed in chlorine?! How the FUCK is that up to scientific and health standards??
Most of our tap water has a touch of chlorine to kill off microorganisms. No need to jerk that knee.
The difference is that the chlorine disperses throughout the water and genuinely kills the bacteria, whereas the chlorine wash for chicken only sanitises the surface of the diseased chicken's skin and any needle pushed through it. It does nothing to the meat and merely hides bacteria from detection.
America doesn't have animal welfare rules anything like like the UK and EU have, and their chickens are usually kept in cramped conditions and bathe in their own filth all day long. It's not very uncommon for their bellies to be actually rotting.
Chlorine washes the evidence away.
Honestly, given all the cramped factory farms and wide spread disease in poultry factories, it's probably good we chlorine them up. Not to say I'd expect another country with better production methods to want to buy our shitty meat though
The chlorine only sanitises the outside and any needle that passes through it.
It's not as much of a thing in the US today, but even the European Commission has found that it's not a problem unless you're eating 5% of your bodyweight in chlorinated chicken every day. It's mostly protectionism for European poultry farmers under the guise of safety.
Sources: European Commission. (2003, April). The evaluation of antimicrobial treatments for poultry carcasses.
European Commission. (2008, April). Environmental impact and effect on antimicrobial resistance of four substances used for the removal of microbial surface contamination of poultry carcasses
European Food Safety Authority. (2015). Risks for public health related to the presence of chlorate in food.
The problem with chlorine washed chicken is NOT the chlorine, it's the diseased underside of battery chickens who spend all day wading in their own filth and with endemic salmonella which passes tests for disease and bacteria because the chlorine sanitises the outermost layer and any needle that passes through it without killing the source of the problem at all. Americans get food poisoning FAR more often than Europeans, and the disgusting conditions the animals are kept in is a big part of the problem.
Yeah, that's what many Americans don't understand - chickens in the UK (and EU for that matter) live much much better lives (mostly free range, unless it's an avian flu pandemic time). And the chlorine ban ensures that.
Haven't you heard? It rinses away all the covid from the internal organs. If it works for people it's definitely good enough for chickens.
Do you drink tap water?
It's not the chlorine that's the problem, it's the disease it masks from testing.
Tap water isn't chlorinated in most of Europe as well
Shut the fuck up Donny, you're out of your element.
Why do they want us to eat their chlorinated chicken so badly? Sounds like an evil agenda coming along....
We have our own farmers anyway.
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.
So called "nationalist", support local farmers.
So called “nationalist”, support local farmers.
Nothing more British than shutting down a local business to reap profit from outsourcing. Just ask Thatcher.
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I wasn't born in the US but find myself living here. The food is awful. Cutting corners and padding some pockets, but listeria outbreaks on our food has become a weekly commonplace. Hundreds of recalls a month. The food is so treated its inedible. I cut almost everything out and buy from imported stores as much as possible. Even European brands often have an American version that is full of junk, so I have to read labels so carefully. I wish it wasn't this way. No one here wants this.
Yeah, there’s a phenomenon where stereotypically fat Americans move abroad, and suddenly start losing a ton of weight. Not because their eating habits consciously changed, but simply because the food that was readily available was suddenly so much healthier than when they were in America. Almost as if infrastructure has a huge impact on the public’s health.
Portions in the US tend to just be larger as well. So you're eating larger portions of bad food.
Now with real bleach - certified Covid-free!
If I remember, Project 2025 also wanted to open up the NHS to "foreign competition" too.
It won't stop at just chlorinated chicken.
EU should respond by banning all type of chicken from US
"Free market"
"Buy our chicken or you will lose your market here"
Nigel Farage admitted he would allow American chlorine-washed chicken
Annnnd there you have it.
generally kinda fucked up to think about raw meat being bulk shipped across oceans anyways
Oh boy if you think that’s fucked up: They take American chickens, send them to China to process, then ship them back to the USA to sell to us.
Didn't this guy also just remove food regulation in USA? Smert move!