Studies have shown that washing food in chlorine doesn't actually work as US authorities think. It can put the bacteria into a survival state called VBNC, viable but non-culturable. This means labs cannot culture the bacteria to test for its presence, but it is present and can still cause illness. It hides the problem, allowing for lower safety practices in favor of productivity and profit. Here is one such study: https://journals.asm.org/doi/full/10.1128/mbio.00540-18

trumpy: "you get the chemical chicken or we tax our people. what's your choice?"

art.of.the.deal

How is it even legal for the US to wash chicken with Chlorine ? Sounds like so ridiculous.

I'm an American and I don't want to buy our chicken either.

The obnoxious thing is that most US chicken isn't even chlorine washed. We could easily just try to make a deal on air chilled chicken, which is actually a high quality American product, but that's not what Trump is interested in. He doesn't actually care about trade or American farmers - he just wants to make people shovel shit, because to him, a "deal" is all about forced compliance rather than mutual respect and compromise.

I'd rather go out of my way to avoid buying anything from the US, which is exactly what I have started doing.

Yuck. Even if I ignored economy, Trump and everything political, US food is pure shit compared to European food.

who the FUCK would buy chicken from the US? if you want chicken you buy it from japan where you can eat it raw if you wanted to.

He's doing the same shit with Canada and milk. American "milk" doesn't even qualify as milk in Canada - has too many other ingredients like BGH and steroids and shit. But he wants us to buy his shitty undrinkable swill instead of buying our own hign quality dairy. No thanks!

Probably trying to make a buck off blighted fetid fowl.

[T]he U.S. discards nearly 60 million tons—or 120 billion pounds—of food annually, amounting to about 40% of the national food supply. This equates to 325 pounds of waste per person, or the equivalent of each American throwing away 975 average-sized apples every year. Alarmingly, food waste is the largest component of municipal solid waste in landfills, making up 22% of the total. The environmental cost is staggering, with food waste generating methane emissions that significantly contribute to climate change. - forbes link from jan '25

In case anyone was wondering, signs of avian flu at the market: bloody legs; slimy, filmy meat.

Trump trying to expand the US sewer to the world.

Watch out for the UK government removing the requirement for Country Of Origin labelling on food. If even a whiff of it stinks up your nostrils then chlorinated US chicken will surely follow.

EDIT: To clarify, I'm supporting the idea that the UK ignore Trump's ultimatum. Like "Oh no, you're saying we have to listen to your demands or be tarriffed? Anyways..."

The Tyson lobby sends their regards.

If you accept, there's no guarantee he won't change the deal later. He's a chud.

Look guys, we know y'all eat beans on toast and spotted dick, be a good sport and take some of this chemically tainted chicken off our hands

Please don't I need my quorn roarsomes and it'd just make people pivot to eating all my quorn roarsomes

Europe, tariffs and chicken, this brings some deja vu