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And that’s basically it!
Or, here's a crazy idea, the US could start meeting the basic safety and animal welfare standards that the entirety of Europe long ago decided was the basic minimum required for something to be suitable for human consumption.
Then how could they poison everyone as cheaply as possible?
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."
"I'll drop the tariffs for EU if they accept American beer" -Trump, next week
(I don't have much against American beer. But you have to understand that this joke absolutely had to be made. There was no other possible outcome.)
For now it's a "joke", next week it'll be recorded history
A 2014 report by US non-profit Consumer Reports found that 97 per cent of 300 American chicken breasts tested contained harmful bacteria, including Salmonella, campylobacter and E.Coli.
Around half of the chicken breasts tested also contained at least one type of bacteria that was resistant to three or more antibiotics.
Meanwhile, if you ate a large amount of chlorinated chicken – the equivalent to 5 per cent of your body weight in one day –you could be exposed to harmful levels of the chemical compound known as chlorate,
Yeah, I'd suggest holding out on this one. The way US farms raise chickens is deplorable and leads to the spread of disease.
Americans tend to be unhealthy af for a reason. Regulatory capture is a major issue in our ever more corrupt government.
That’s absolutely 
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.
God, what a sniveling excuse for a politician.
Nigel Farage is a trump suck up who was literally paid off or bribed by Elon Musk I would just ignore everything he ever says
Pretends to be a nationalist as well.
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.
Of course, the crazy works both ways: https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/why-is-china-treating-north-carolina-like-the-developing-world-122892/
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.
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.
Shut the fuck up Donny, you're out of your element.
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
Don't be so sure, did you see the quote fom next UK prime minister.
A total cunt admitted he would allow American chlorine-washed chicken to be sold in the UK as part of a free trade deal with the US.
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.
Nigel Farage admitted he would allow American chlorine-washed chicken
Annnnd there you have it.
"Free market"
"Buy our chicken or you will lose your market here"
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??
It's up to the American standards, for what that's worth. The chlorine washing makes the meat safe, because the process results in unsafe meat, causing danger to workers (and [speculation]possibly undue suffering for the birds). The EU processes result in meat that doesn't need to be chlorine washed because the process ensures it is safe.
So the problem with chlorine washing is not in the end product but in the process that creates it. It's the EU concern for worker safety that makes chlorine washed chicken problematic.
I'm not defending the USA here and I oppose imports of chlorinated chicken. Just want to ensure the ire is projected in the appropriate direction. If God forbid that idiot Farage gets some power and we end up with chlorinated chicken then it should be clearly labelled as such so that the British consumer can make an informed FUCK OFF.
The UK can't allow the import of chlorinated chicken because then that would shut down our chicken trading, at least, and probably a lot more, with the EU, which is a bigger market than the American one, by about 30%. Fart's team obviously knows this.
It's up to the American standards, for what that's worth.
Honestly, not much.
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.
Yuck! American "food". In general, not just chicken.
I was in Atlanta recently, and our allergy kid wanted to eat a cake at a family party, so I told them to check the ingredients. They couldn't understand the list and brought it to me. There was no wonder, the list was full of artificial everything. And here I thought the UK's UPF was bad - I was shocked that cake was even considered food.
Well, with American bread being so loaded with corn syrup that it is considered "cake" in Europe, one should not be surprised.
And as the American attitude to those "artificial everythings" is to include them as long as they are not proven unsafe, in contrast to the European that you can only include them if they have proven generally safe, there are a lot of things you won't find in European ingredient lists. For some of those items, it takes the US decades to withdraw them from the "suitable for food" list, sometimes even after some thrid world countries considered them illegal.
If I remember, Project 2025 also wanted to open up the NHS to "foreign competition" too.
It won't stop at just chlorinated chicken.
How does the chicken cross the Atlantic?
We're back to the chicken tax... it's the reason why 'Muricans all drive big pickup trucks:
Chlorinated chicken dipped in swimming pool water
Now with real bleach - certified Covid-free!