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- nottheonion@lemmy.world
- cross-posted to:
- nottheonion@lemmy.world
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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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
It hides the problem
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
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.
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
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…
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.
Especially food related stuff. Just look at the people who consume it.
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!
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…”
If you accept, there’s no guarantee he won’t change the deal later. He’s a chud.
Europe, tariffs and chicken, this brings some deja vu
The Tyson lobby sends their regards.
