[MTVN]

Fox also agreed that it's not a safety issue, even if this food did start being used in schools and care homes etc I'm not sure it's any worse than the current cheapest alternatives that they use now. And with an ageing and growing population I think it's legitimate to look at how different methods could help with that. The obesity link is a bit tenuous imo, agree with TS that there are much more important other factors

Fox was suggesting that we probably wouldn't accept these methods anyway and that it was standard stuff for the US to request at the start of a negotiation but not necessarily a major sticking point

[Cherie]

Originally Posted by MTVN

Fox also agreed that it's not a safety issue, even if this food did start being used in schools and care homes etc I'm not sure it's any worse than the current cheapest alternatives that they use now. And with an ageing and growing population I think it's legitimate to look at how different methods could help with that. The obesity link is a bit tenuous imo, agree with TS that there are much more important other factors

Fox was suggesting that we probably wouldn't accept these methods anyway and that it was standard stuff for the US to request at the start of a negotiation but not necessarily a major sticking point

The obesity link is tenuous

[MTVN]

Originally Posted by Cherie

The obesity link is tenuous

Well yeah the only place I've seen the two linked is on here, what's the evidence that these methods contribute to obesity?

[Cherie]

Originally Posted by MTVN

Well yeah the only place I've seen the two linked is on here, what's the evidence that these methods contribute to obesity?

Read and digest (pardon the pun) what I have actually posted, I never said these methods contribute to obesity, I said we should learn from what we have already imported from the US...ie Mc Donalds, KFC, hotdogs, doughnuts...etc.............ect.........etc......

what I actually posted, not sure why this wasn't clear to you?

Should we not be learning from our past mistakes? Obesity in Britain is down to our love and import of many things American in particular their fast food chains

[MTVN]

Originally Posted by Cherie

Read and digest (pardon the pun) what I have actually posted, I never said these methods contribute to obesity, I said we should learn from what we have already imported from the US...ie Mc Donalds, KFC, hotdogs, doughnuts...etc.............ect.........etc......

what I actually posted, not sure why this wasn't clear to you?

Should we not be learning from our past mistakes? Obesity in Britain is down to our love and import of many things American in particular their fast food chains

Stuff the whole world has imported, its not really relevant to this particular issue of farming methods so yeah it still seems pretty tenuous to me..

[Marsh.]

Originally Posted by Cherie

Read and digest (pardon the pun) what I have actually posted, I never said these methods contribute to obesity, I said we should learn from what we have already imported from the US...ie Mc Donalds, KFC, hotdogs, doughnuts...etc.............ect.........etc......

This is a stretch. We have junk food and would have junk food regardless of if American franchises can sell their own junk food over here.

Most of it tastes and is made differently to how it is done in the US anyway so there is no connection to the type of thing they're proposing now.