cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/27771988
Summary
Donald Trump warned the UK must accept chlorinated US chicken imports if it wants relief from new 10% tariffs on British exports.
The U.K. has long reaffirmed its commitment to maintaining high food standards, with polling showing 80% of Britons oppose a ch imports.
Critics argue chlorinated chicken stems from poorer production hygiene, with studies showing high bacteria rates in US chicken.
Farming advocates warn a US trade deal with lower standards would be “devastating for British farming.”
Keep your chicken and choke on it, asshole.
Wish I could trust the red Tories to tell him to fuck off.
Mhm - what about no…
Vassal states gotta vassal.
May I politely suggest; get fucked
You can’t make people eat it though.
You can obfuscate it so that people won’t even know what they’re eating, though… Wouldn’t be the first, or the last time…
They will do a taste test though, when they eat it. Then they’ll swear to never buy that crappy brand again.
And all that’s left is to hope that alternatives will still be available.
Why even import chicken from the US? You can have chicken farms anywhere, right?
Also I dig in and found this article from 2019, so the US always wanted us to buy chlorinated chicken from them… wait a second. 2019, that was the first Trump Tenure. What’s with his obsession of exporting chlorinated chicken?
It goes further back to at least 2014. There was a failed attempt at a free trade agreement between the EU and USA called TTIP and chlorinated chicken was often mentioned in that context.
If Trump is hatching them personally (I can’t imagine why else he could be so obsessed with eggs to go around begging for them all over the globe), you need to somewhat clean and disinfect the chickens before sale…
I’m going to show myself out.
There’s obviously something fowl going on in the Whitehouse.
I remember, in 2025, when the former Whitehouse got renamed into the now Honourable Foulhouse.
/s
What if the deal is made and then no one in the UK actually buys it because its shit? Also isn’t US food generally expensive compared to ours before sending it across the Atlantic?
I reckon trump will insist on food labels sinking in quality. I doubt trump would let it be obvious what was american
Although it might be obviously labelled as american and even the far right don’t like the idea of American chicken so it might just flop
I just looked at the price of some meats at Walmart. It’s expensive compared to Aldi in the UK. Transporting it across the Atlantic isn’t going to help bring costs down either.
As an American, don’t accept this chicken. American chicken sucks. It’s all fat and hormones with some meat in it and doesn’t taste as good.
Plus chlorinated chicken is weak as fuck. I want brominated chicken. Or better yet, fluorinated chicken. Bathe the chickens in one of the cool halogens or don’t even bother .
Nuke it in UV. Get a nice sear going…
Bring back radium products! Let’s party like it’s the 1920s!
Back then doctors were cool too. Tell them your shoulder hurts and they give you cocaine.
In other news, the UK laughs and laughs.
Moved from US to Canada back in high school long ago…
Holy shit meat quality was NIGHT AND DAY. I’d never go back
UK is not EU.
Does somebody claim it was?
But, does he know? ;-)
Still Europe. Just as Norway, Switzerland, and much of the Balkans are Europe. But not EU.
But it is in Europe, even though many Brits like do think their island isn’t part of The Continent™.
I mean, look at the icon of the sub…
It’s pretty messed up that these days regular headlines read like The Onion headlines
So first he goes around begging for eggs, now he’s back peddling disgusting low quality chlorine contaminated chicken. Coincidence?
Another chicken and egg problem.
What came first? The egg beggar, or the chlorinated chicken?
Also, if they have so many chickens, why don’t they just get those to make more eggs?
Ahh right! Because they are Chlorinated!
