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White House pushing Sir Keir Starmer to make concessions on food standards
Donald Trump is demanding American chlorinated chicken be sold in British supermarkets.
The White House is pushing Sir Keir Starmer to make concessions on food standards in order to revive a transatlantic tech partnership that drastically collapsed on Tuesday.
Jamieson Greer, the US trade envoy, wants Britain to accept hormone-treated chicken and beef, a term he was not able to achieve when the wider US-UK trade deal was first signed in May.
“He is seeking to use the tech partnership as leverage on trade deal concessions he still wants but that didn’t get the first round,” a source close to the negotiations told The Telegraph.
The US pulled the tech prosperity agreement over complaints Britain’s Online Safety Act would police American AI companies. Washington is using this complaint in order to secure fresh compromises in its trade deal with London, The Telegraph understands.
Insiders say the tech agreement collapsed in part because of the absence of an ambassador to Washington, a post which has remained vacant since Lord Mandelson was fired in September over his friendship with Jeffrey Epstein.
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They can stock it all they want, doesn’t mean it’s going to get bought.
I demand my butthole be tounged repeatedly.
This was the promise of Brexit - no more of those pesky, overbearing EU safety regulations in exchange for trading deals with the devil for bad products that don’t come CLOSE to replacing what was lost.
America has been trying to get us to legalise their shitty chicken for years, fuck right off. We produce our own locally to a much higher standard.
I’ll buy your Good & Plenty though, my gawd that tastes goooood
Only a small portion of US chicken gets the chlorine rinse, a practice that the EU recognized as perfectly safe by the way. They banned it because they didn’t want poultry processors to get lazy about other hygiene practices. They don’t import American chicken because the cost difference would destroy the local farms.
I’m not advocating for American chlorinated chicken, but I’m not sure our chicken is to a much higher standard. Over the last few years I’ve noticed a decline in the quality of our chicken from white striping to woody breast. I guess this is caused by them using breeds that grow quickly.
And now the UK left the EU, they have way less bargaining power.
Are you my Grandpa? The only one I know who eats Good & Plenty
IIRC it’s not just hormones it’s bleached because we consider chicken with salmonella to still be fit for consumption. Our farming processes are so bad that we have to bleach the chicken to attempt to mitigate the hearth hazard.
It’s honestly embarrassing. Every time I hear about an ecoli outbreak on leafy greens, I’m bewildered on how hard it is for our farmers to keep cow shit out of their crops.
It’s not just cows.
Soiling greens is people?
I see what you did there 😁
And yes, some countries use human faeces as a fertiliser. Not sure if that’s the case in the UK though… I doubt it, the literal and figurative shit storm that would create… 😬
The USDA has banned hormones and steroids since the 50s and like 5% of chicken gets the (perfectly safe) chlorine rinse. European countries use the same rinse on leafy vegetables, they just banned it on poultry because they thought it would make processors complacent.
Chicken in Europe tastes so much better than in the USA
Life in Europe tastes better than in the USA.
Is it because they think black people like chicken, so they make the chicken bad?
Yeah not going to be buying that shit, no thank you
They will obscure its origin then.
See also: Bleached flour
I heard that in the US they even bleach their assholes.
Nah. Just spray tan them.
I don’t know much about Starmer. How likely is he to let this happen?
He’s very weak.
Mandatory Freedom Marinade chickens
