Trump tells UK to buy chlorinated chicken from US if it wants tariff relief
(www.independent.co.uk)
from MicroWave@lemmy.world to world@lemmy.world on 04 Apr 2025 10:41
https://lemmy.world/post/27771988
from MicroWave@lemmy.world to world@lemmy.world on 04 Apr 2025 10:41
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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Nah. Don’t do it. Call for a referendum to get back into the EU. I’m sure in these trying times they could speed run you guys back in.
Not that I wouldn’t welcome UK back (under equal conditions to all new-joiners, of course), speed-running is not something EU is capable of. Nor is UK. They will not like having to accept the same deal everyone else has to when they had a lot of exceptions for everything. It will take ages before some kind of agreement is reached.
Not to mention, there’s at least one member state that will obstruct anything beneficial because the current dictator benefits from the chaos.
Just tell them they won’t be getting those sweet Euros from the EU, that worked every time so far.
I don’t see it happening anytime soon. To rejoin, they woukd have to accept all the new rules, one of them is adopting the Euro as currency. I’m not sure the English voters would be willing to abandon the Pound. Scottish, Welsh an Irish, maybe.
Perhaps after people start starving? Although the British are know for stoic acceptance of suffering…hmmm…maybe.
Can’t wait for my 1€ coins with Big Ben on it, and 2€ coins with beans on toast !
There’s more to just losing the pound than cultural attachment (though that’s very real) it would also limit the UK’s ability to dictate their monetary policy. Mind you ~25% of the EU don’t use the Euro, not least of which is Denmark which has a similar opt out to what the UK used to have.
Yuck. Even if I ignored economy, Trump and everything political, US food is pure shit compared to European food.
Imagine how fucking grand it would have been if this cunt had died from covid.
No, don’t kill him. Let him develop Long Covid and then waste away in his own filth.
The first time around, I said I didn’t want him dead because I wanted him to face justice. I wanted him to rot in a cell while he watched the world prosper without him in power and see his efforts dismantled.
That was misguided.
Ah, I see you had faith in America. Me too. He will most certainly escape justice. But we may yet save the Republic.
It was lost a long time ago for the lower classes and those with the least power. It’s the middle class that it’s catching up to.
That is so passé, middle class became the new poor years ago.
What middle class? If there ever was one in this country, it hasn’t existed for my entire adult life that’s for sure.
It’s called the American Dream because you’ve got to be asleep to believe it.
LOL Classic
Any reason to believe he doesn’t have it?
Well,
at leastunfortunately he doesn’t have the variant that shuts down all your energy and makes you unable to leave the bed.He has amazing levels of energy for being a fat old man who can’t walk down a ramp. It could be the drugs.
Mentally, Donald is a toddler. Developing Long Covid and wasting away in his own filth wouldn’t even jar him from his daily routine. He doesn’t have the mental capacity to understand right and wrong. It’s an absolute disgrace that homeless veterans freeze to death on the street while that asshat gets rushed to Walter Reed to get state-of-the-art treatment.
No, this man will be a scourge on mankind until he’s dead in a fucking hole
Or the shooter had sights on his rifle…
I’m still not convinced it wasn’t a fully orchestrated false flag. There’s too much about the incident and it’s aftermath that’s deeply suspicious.
That he missed because an officer was peeking over the edge is still believable, though.
It helped trump, so everything is possible
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
I’m an American and I don’t want to buy our chicken either.
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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…”
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: journals.asm.org/doi/full/10.1128/mbio.00540-18
Seems to be working as intended
It hides the problem or else it gets the hose again
Maybe it likes the hose. Don’t kink shame!
Sounds like the american way. Hide the problem in the name of profits rather than finding a real solution.
Note: am american, and hate this mindset
All you need to do to not need the chlorine wash is to not treat the animals so badly that they shit all over each other due to lack of space. Improve their welfare improve the product, but no. Dollars come first.
Or just like, I dunno, don’t undercook your chicken?
The problem with most bacteria isn’t that they cause foodborne illnesses (what cooking prevents) but that there are dangerous byproducts created by them, which often are not destroyed by cooking.
Or don’t eat animals
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
Hey now, beans on toast is a kingly feast! Grate some cheese on top… Pure comfort 😁
How is it even legal for the US to wash chicken with Chlorine ? Sounds like so ridiculous.
“Business Innovation”
In the same country they bleach little kids assholes to cure autism and other things. So it’s pretty fitting i would say
…pardon me??
Oh. You have a sad read ahead of you…
Companies pay loads of money to politicians to have them change the health and safety laws so they can make even more money. It’s a time-honored American tradition.
This one time, some dude bought his own president for just over $250 million
Trump trying to expand the US sewer to the world.
I’d rather go out of my way to avoid buying anything from the US, which is exactly what I have started doing.
Especially food related stuff. Just look at the people who consume it.
trumpy: “you get the chemical chicken or we tax our people. what’s your choice?”
art.of.the.deal
Probably trying to make a buck off blighted fetid fowl.
In case anyone was wondering, signs of avian flu at the market: bloody legs; slimy, filmy meat.
After reading the article, I’m left wondering how US food waste breaks down between originating from individual households vs grocery retailers, commercial retail food/restaurants and ag suppliers.
It’s been a while, but I remember reading about how there’s little incentive (maybe it’s even prohibited?) for retailers to send reject and expiring food to food banks instead of throwing it out. I feel like this should be more of a concern considering the demand to food banks is probably going to increase rapidly while funding and donations will likely decrease with the current economic turmoil.
I suspect we could curb a significant amount of food waste by creating a pathway to divert food waste instead of disposing it outright. Of course, such pathway would need to meet food safety standards while providing a clear regulatory framework to address liability and logistical aspects to make it more profitable to divert vs dispose.
Anyone from outside of the shithole have any input on how this works in your country?
I’m in Canada and recently our food banks (at least in my area) have been getting huge donations of all the unsold American produce.
That’s awesome! Glad to hear that silver lining.
British food is bad enough. Don’t make them use are flavor-less chickens as well.
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.
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.
The Tyson lobby sends their regards.
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!
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.