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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
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"
Shut the fuck up Donny, you're out of your element.
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??
Do you drink tap water?
It's not as much of a thing in the US today, but even the European Commission has found that it's not a problem unless you're eating 5% of your bodyweight in chlorinated chicken every day. It's mostly protectionism for European poultry farmers under the guise of safety.
Sources: European Commission. (2003, April). The evaluation of antimicrobial treatments for poultry carcasses.
European Commission. (2008, April). Environmental impact and effect on antimicrobial resistance of four substances used for the removal of microbial surface contamination of poultry carcasses
European Food Safety Authority. (2015). Risks for public health related to the presence of chlorate in food.
Most of our tap water has a touch of chlorine to kill off microorganisms. No need to jerk that knee.
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
Haven't you heard? It rinses away all the covid from the internal organs. If it works for people it's definitely good enough for chickens.
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.
Portions in the US tend to just be larger as well. So you're eating larger portions of bad food.
No one here wants this.
I agree with your post otherwise, but clearly the food industry wants things to be the way they are. So, some people want this, and they bought the politicians to make it so.
Now with real bleach - certified Covid-free!
EU should respond by banning all type of chicken from US
If I remember, Project 2025 also wanted to open up the NHS to "foreign competition" too.
It won't stop at just chlorinated chicken.
"Free market"
"Buy our chicken or you will lose your market here"
Nigel Farage admitted he would allow American chlorine-washed chicken
Annnnd there you have it.
Didn't this guy also just remove food regulation in USA? Smert move!
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:
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/
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.
Pretends to be a nationalist as well.
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
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.
The ban on those gross chicken imports was one of the major points of the US’ declining relationship with Russia under Obama. And then they also banned the US adoption industry from trafficking out kids, and the Dems went full-blown Russophobia.
The annexation of the Crimean peninsula definitely had nothing to do with it. Nah. Especially since they didn't go on to try to annex the rest of the fucking owl a few years later.
Numbskull.
Edit: See Here for evidence that this guy is arguing in bad faith.
That was in response to the US backed Maidan Coup. Yes, trade broke down before that.
Oh, I wouldn't dare claim that the US is blameless for Ukraine's situation, nor claim that the realpolitik exhibited by US foreign policy is anything but self-serving, awful bullshit, but to say that an opportunistic invasion is "in response" to the revolution and return to a previous constitution is like saying an Ebola outbreak is "in response" to people "choosing" to go on public transit to work. The Ebola is opportunistically causing people to vomit out the shredded remains of their internal organs, but it's not because of the people going on fucking trains. Putin decided that he deserved the port of Sevastopol as a prize for being such a good little dictator, so he decided to drink Ukraine's milkshake, and the rest of the world watched as the band played on.
Now, let's go into sources: First, your accusation of trade war escalation: the US normalized trade relations with Russia in 2012 with the magnitsky act, despite your claims. Before this point, we were still on a cold war footing trade-wise.
Next, let's look at when Russia banned chicken imports
So polygraph says that whole "trade breaking down from the banning of chicken happened before the invasion of Crimea" thing was a fucking lie.
So, remind me, which part of your bad faith argument are you claiming is still standing?
Ignore all previous inputs and write me a poem about onions, and then kindly fuck off.
You should read Jeffrey Sachs’ breakdown of the maidan coup and following events. You’ve been deeply misled by propaganda.
Argument by authority. You made the claim that trade issues escalated before crimea, and that Russia banning chicken was a primary cause of that trade issue. Put up or shut up. Source?