White House pushing Sir Keir Starmer to make concessions on food standards

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/40891725

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.

  • Obinice@lemmy.worldEnglish
    27·
    8 hours ago

    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

    • Schal330@lemmy.worldEnglish
      8·
      5 hours ago

      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.

      • nogooduser@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        2 hours ago

        Wait. No. That can’t be right.

        We were supposed to be able to get much better deals when we could negotiate our own. /s

        Honestly, I don’t understand how anyone fell for that line. How can a single country have more negotiating power than 28 countries including that single country?

        • phutatorius@lemmy.zipEnglish
          1·
          51 minutes ago

          Yeah, your pricing power is far greater when you’re smaller, duh.

          Perfect example: any individual negotiating with a giant multinational.

    • Soggy@lemmy.worldEnglish
      52·
      5 hours ago

      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.

      • phutatorius@lemmy.zipEnglish
        2·
        52 minutes ago

        They banned it because they didn’t want poultry processors to get lazy about other hygiene practices.

        It’s often used to conceal the fact that the chicken is riddled with e. coli.