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.
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…
just rejoin the eu and you don’t have to worry about the us as a trading partner
Keep your filthy American chicken.
Britain must allow US chlorine-washed chicken into UK markets
Go and fuck yourself.
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.
“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
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He can fuck off.
This is the “drink bleach to cure COVID” all over again
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.
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.
We don’t want the meat off your sick chickens thanks very much!
Fuck Off
That’s extortion.
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?
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.
Getting his own way is what Trump calls fair.
