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.
Britain must allow US chlorine-washed chicken into UK markets
Go and fuck yourself.
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.
He can fuck off.
" > 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 tv commentator?
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.
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
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.
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?
