The import of US chlorinated chicken, beef with growth hormones and GM produce
 

This will form part of any trade deal with the USA.

Brilliant isn't it!

Bollocks it will

It was on the news Arista

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/b...cken-p7q0zsj3n

Yes for over a year.
But who cares?

why wouldn't you care?

Because I will not eat it.


[Liam Fox, the international trade secretary, has dismissed reports of potential changes as “fake news”.]

Liam Fox, don't make me laugh

Anyway, let's hope there's a different president by the time of negotiations bc this one will force all sorts of American crap on the UK

So my chicken will smell like the local swimming pool.Sounds good.

No it is washed off

Well I wouldn't touch it.
Then again, I don't now eat meat, I'm vegetarian.
This however, if I did eat meat would worry me considerably.

You might in a restaurant

Meh millions of Americans eat it every day with no problems, don't know what the issue is

Americans with no health issues ...yeah me neither :skull:

Americans healthy and few problems.
That's a new one.

Even my cousins who live in L.A. won't touch meat over there.

It well smell like my drying spedos?

The reason they chlorinate the chicken is because of potential disease on the chicken.. :skull:

I’ll stick to my quorn

I'm sure the uk has 1 chicken per family per day on offer..clucking away, happily running about the sheds, unaware of being crammed 8 at a time into 24 berth crates.Thier wings crunching on entry, to allow space for the comfortable 8 hour journey towards the patheticness of their finality. Those poor bewildered gaping eyes as the metal noose clunk's them inching forward.

If it did no one would eat it.
it would not sell.


Its a Cherie (who hates Brexit )
Old Scare Story from a year ago

Its a Brexit Scare Story

No
I do not think so.

Here is a link that says otherwise for Arista who loves Brexit

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-47036119

US lobby groups for agriculture and pharmaceutical firms want UK standards changed to be closer to those of the US in a post-Brexit trade deal.

The meat lobby wants the sale of growth hormone-fed beef, currently banned in the UK and EU, to be allowed in the UK.

The drugs company lobby wants changes to the NHS drugs approval process to allow it to buy more of US drugs.

They are also asking US officials - who will hold a hearing later - to seek lower tariffs on agricultural goods.

The farming groups say any deal should move away from EU standards, including rules governing genetically modified crops, antibiotics in meats, and pesticides and herbicides, such as glyphosate.

Of course there are people who break the law, the point is there is a law so when they are caught there are consequences just like with the horse meat scandal

Yes Cherie
Our Standards are good

Well, i care very much about the food standards we have here in the UK, and for all those who say it won't happen, of course it will, the moment business decides what we can eat rather than our standards agencies.

brexit britain :skull:

Well if that's a result of chlorinated chicken then what's our excuse

we have plenty of our own health issues without importing more :nono:

Fight back ,go veggie,you'll be healthier:hee:

You'll have to. When American big pharma comes here NHS drugs will be far more expensive

Tbh what you actually eat will still come down to personal choice... You can always go organic.

Tbh it's more complicated than that; the price will only increase if the American health insurance model comes with the big pharma. Of course with Tory governments that's always a risk, too.

Basically American drugs are so expensive because of the never ending insurance adjustments waltz between the hospitals / pharma companies / insurance companies.

Tbh tbh tbh. I'm tbh everything today tbh.

Lol if you can afford it?

True, but in all honesty our non-organic chicken is muck anyway. The hormones are more of a concern but if you're OK with eating cheap chicken currently, allowing it to be chlorinated realistically won't make a huge difference.

I'm more concerned about the pesticides they're likely to legalise when they have free reign.

Im not addressing chlorinated chicken per se as I think that is the least worrying of the three in the OP, but its what most who have responded have seemed to hone in on, at least you can wash off chlorine, growth hormones and pesticides are another matter

I have done Kazanne.
I've been moving to it since my late teens anyway.

TS has a point.Just because US chicken will be available to us doesn’t mean we’ll have to buy it.Just vote with your pockets and buy UK/Euro chicken.
Let the market decide.

In restaurants if enough people explicitly say they don’t want US chicken then the restaurants won’t use it.
Infact there may end up being signs and notes on the menus.
‘All our chicken is from non US sources’.

They can’t force it on people’s plates.
Consumer power.

They already like to mark fresh meat with "British", "Scottish" etc. as a selling point and I can't see that changing.

The main concern will be processed food I imagine, where to source of the meat is less clear. But honestly who is buying chikky nug-nugs expecting them to be the healthy additive-free choice? The problems in terms of individual consumption are only ever, as always, going to be from eating junk foods in excess.

If they change pesticide regulations to match the US, on the other hand, it's another story and quite a worrying one. It's not about what gets into the food, it's about the effect that these things are having on insect populations and pollenation.

That not the point though, we shouldn't be importing sub standard products after Brexit just to get 'a deal' otherwise the UK is being held hostage to an even worse scenario than we currently have....I thought the whole point of Brexit was that we held our own destiny in our hands, not that you best take this sub standard crap otherwise we aint playing ......the idea that Brexiteers are even on board with this scenario is pretty laughable...looks like a case of well obvs I won’t be eating it but some other mug can have the pleasure