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Trump tells UK to buy chlorinated chicken from US if it wants tariff relief
(www.independent.co.uk)
EU should respond by banning all type of chicken from US
this post was submitted on 04 Apr 2025
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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/
Whatever is going on in that article, the Carolinas are developing ~~countries~~ states. Most of America is, really.
I have heard Arkansas compared to Cuba and been found similar in terms of economic development.
The only time that doesn't seem f-ed up is when you stand outside the processing plants, here or there...
I think it's better than cooked meat which spoils quicker
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.
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
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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.
Americans tend to be unhealthy af for a reason. Regulatory capture is a major issue in our ever more corrupt government.
I'm glad people say these things, because it reminds me that the death of critical thought isn't strictly an American crisis
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That’s absolutely 
I think we should not overinterpret this. Lets walk through it backwards.
5% of your body weight in chicken in one day? Assuming you are a small thin person of 55 kg. That means you would need to eat around 2.9 kg of chicken in a day. If you were a 80kg tall person, you'd be looking at eating 4 kg of chicken in a day. Neither is realistic imo.
Now antibiotic resistance bacteria definetly is an issue.
As for harmful bacteria including Salmonella... Unless there is data to compare with from other countries that does not mean much in itself. Raw chicken is notorious for giving food poisioning and being much more dangerous in that regard than raw beef, pork, or even fresh fish. I got a very bad food poisoning from undercooked chicken not to long ago and that was in the EU.
Doesn't mean that US farming practices aren't much worse than most EU standards (if enforced), but these metrics mentioned by themselves are not the best indicators for that.
I am a small and thin person of 40kg.
Now would I realistically eat 2kg chicken in one day? That would be two whole chickens, which is not impossible but unlikely as I don't really like chicken.
Would I still prefer my food not to contain a potential risky chemical? Absolutely.
Every chemical is potentially risky in sufficient amounts, even water.
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I agree. I think there is better arguments to be made for that though. More interesting than short term health effects would be health effects from long term exposure. Rather than just stating the presence of Bacteria, spread of diseases like "Bird flu" that could also infect humans or the building of multi-resistant Bacteria in industrial farming is more relevant than the presence of Salmonella, which is quite prevalent in chicken, even under good farming practices.
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:
Frozen in vacuum sealed bags, to get to the other side.
Didn't this guy also just remove food regulation in USA? Smert move!
Yuck! American "food". In general, not just chicken.
I was in Atlanta recently, and our allergy kid wanted to eat a cake at a family party, so I told them to check the ingredients. They couldn't understand the list and brought it to me. There was no wonder, the list was full of artificial everything. And here I thought the UK's UPF was bad - I was shocked that cake was even considered food.
Well, with American bread being so loaded with corn syrup that it is considered "cake" in Europe, one should not be surprised.
And as the American attitude to those "artificial everythings" is to include them as long as they are not proven unsafe, in contrast to the European that you can only include them if they have proven generally safe, there are a lot of things you won't find in European ingredient lists. For some of those items, it takes the US decades to withdraw them from the "suitable for food" list, sometimes even after some thrid world countries considered them illegal.
This is honestly just a weird talking point I see online. I'm sure some bread is marked as "cake" or whatever but that's not what most Americans eat.
I just checked my bread (which doesn't come from a bakery) and the entire loaf has 6 grams of sugar in it. And you can't make bread without sugar.
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US made food items, never safe to even bring into a kitchen. Look at the general US obesity, to get scared
Indeed. Common main ingredient: HFCS.
Yuk, who in the right mind would eat that crap
Most Americans, it's the same stuff fast food places use for fried chicken. KFC, Chick-fil-A, Popeyes are very popular here in the US!
It's sold in grocery stores here too. Has the odor of an indoor swimming pool. We can sometimes fine "air chilled" chicken which is usually not chlorinated but is always more expensive.
A literal "Eat sh@€ or die!".
Shateuro?
And that was the whole point of the tariffs.
Non-science based? The science disagrees.
While pushing all-feelings no-facts reduction of vaccinations
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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.
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