cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/27771988

Summary

Donald Trump warned the UK must accept chlorinated US chicken imports if it wants relief from new 10% tariffs on British exports.

The U.K. has long reaffirmed its commitment to maintaining high food standards, with polling showing 80% of Britons oppose a ch imports.

Critics argue chlorinated chicken stems from poorer production hygiene, with studies showing high bacteria rates in US chicken.

Farming advocates warn a US trade deal with lower standards would be "devastating for British farming."

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[–] 88 points 1 year ago (1 child)

It's pretty messed up that these days regular headlines read like The Onion headlines

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    [–] 75 points 1 year ago (9 children)

    As an American... don't cave. Boycott US products even if your countries give in. Otherwise we'll never learn our lesson.

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  • [–] 40 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    As a U.S. Citizen, PLEASE don't buy these products. Please don't give in.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    It is funny, here in Sweden we have for decades looked down upon other countries in the EU, even our neighboring countries, for their "terrible" livestock practices.

    If I see beef from Denmark or Ireland on the shelf, I will not buy it even if there is no alternative, if there is no Swedish beef, I will not buy beef that day.

    And now from what I understand, the Drumpfster want us to buy food that is even lower quality?

    lol.

    Now, when I say that I only buy Swedish meat in the store, and that other nations livestock practices are "terrible", I mean it in that I have been told since I was born that other nations pump their animals full of antibiotics, while Sweden does not, and that other nations are "abusing" their livestock, Sweden does not.

    I don't know how true this all is, but it absolutely affects my decisions on what to buy.

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    It wont be allowed to be marked as either from the US or chlorinated if it ever does come over. The people paying Trump to push this know that if the UK public can spot it they wont buy it so any deal would mandate that it doesn't have to be stamped.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    If you can't spot it by looking at it, you can definitely spot it by eating it. You don't even need to tell people to boycott this stuff, people are able to read brand names and won't rebuy brands that taste rubbish anyway.

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  • [–] 42 points 1 year ago* (4 children)

    So first he goes around begging for eggs, now he's back peddling disgusting low quality chlorine contaminated chicken. Coincidence?

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (3 children)

    Another chicken and egg problem.

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  • [–] 35 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    It's the best chlorinated chicken in the world, believe me, so beautiful...

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago

    A friend of mine worked as a butcher for Stop & Shop for a while. He had so many horrible stories of boot-shaped bruises on the chickens, overly saline-injected breasts gushing puddles on the block, partially cooked chicken from the heat shrink and labeling process, and more I can’t even remember right now. Our food supply chain is vile, and this was back in ~2000.

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  • [–] 30 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Why even import chicken from the US? You can have chicken farms anywhere, right?

    Also I dig in and found this article from 2019, so the US always wanted us to buy chlorinated chicken from them... wait a second. 2019, that was the first Trump Tenure. What's with his obsession of exporting chlorinated chicken?

    https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-47440562

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

    If Trump is hatching them personally (I can't imagine why else he could be so obsessed with eggs to go around begging for them all over the globe), you need to somewhat clean and disinfect the chickens before sale...

    I'm going to show myself out.

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  • [–] 24 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    As an American, don't accept this chicken. American chicken sucks. It's all fat and hormones with some meat in it and doesn't taste as good.

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Plus chlorinated chicken is weak as fuck. I want brominated chicken. Or better yet, fluorinated chicken. Bathe the chickens in one of the cool halogens or don't even bother .

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Bring back radium products! Let's party like it's the 1920s!

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  • Moved from US to Canada back in high school long ago..

    Holy shit meat quality was NIGHT AND DAY. I'd never go back

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  • [–] 15 points 1 year ago

    Keep your chicken and choke on it, asshole.

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    [–] 13 points 1 year ago* (2 children)

    What if the deal is made and then no one in the UK actually buys it because its shit? Also isn't US food generally expensive compared to ours before sending it across the Atlantic?

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I reckon trump will insist on food labels sinking in quality. I doubt trump would let it be obvious what was american

    Although it might be obviously labelled as american and even the far right don't like the idea of American chicken so it might just flop

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  • [+] 13 points 1 year ago
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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago

    In other news, the UK laughs and laughs.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago

    Wish I could trust the red Tories to tell him to fuck off.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    Mhm - what about no....

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    You can't make people eat it though.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago* (2 children)

    You can obfuscate it so that people won't even know what they're eating, though... Wouldn't be the first, or the last time... All you need to do is get the meat into the country, then throw it in the shredder and process it until it is unrecognisable.

    Edit: or not even that, just slap whatever label you want on it. It's not like the average consumer will do a chem test on every cut of meat they purchase.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    Vassal states gotta vassal.

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