Britain must allow US chlorine-washed chicken into UK markets if it wants relief from sweeping tariffs, Donald Trump has indicated.
It comes after the UK failed to avoid tariffs imposed on the global economy, with the US president slapping a 10 per cent levies on all British exports to the United States.
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In a statement published alongside the tariff announcement, the White House said: “The UK maintains non-science-based standards that severely restrict US exports of safe, high-quality beef and poultry products.”
It suggested that Britain’s ban on chlorinated chicken was among a range of “non-tariff barriers” that limit the US’s ability to trade.
The UK has long ruled out allowing imports of chlorine-washed chicken from the US due to health concerns, with Downing Street on Thursday reiterating its manifesto commitment to high food standards.
Asked whether the UK could allow imports of chlorine washed chicken in order to appease the US, the prime minister’s officials spokesperson said: “Our position on that is unchanged. You’ve got the manifesto commitment on food standards, which obviously remains.”
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The last major polling done on the issue, conducted in 2020, revealed that 80 per cent of Britons are opposed to allowing imports to the UK, and the same proportion is also against allowing chicken products that have been farmed using hormones.
There is also growing pressure from the farming industry to rule out concessions on the issue, amid fears it could undercut British farmers and drive down food standards.
Nigel Farage admitted he would allow American chlorine-washed chicken to be sold in the UK as part of a free trade deal with the US.
Are these the culled, disinfected and frozen cicken that lay no more eggs? Want to sell them off for damage control?
>It suggested that Britain’s ban on chlorinated chicken was among a range of “non-tariff barriers” that limit the US’s ability to trade.
Non-tariff barriers like checks notes food safety.
If you put it like that, it sounds bad.
Non-tariff barriers like checks notes food safety.
Yeap, what do you think they mean when they rally against “rEGulAtiOns”
All they want is to cut costs and swallow extra profits
Non-tariff barriers like checks notes. Anything that questions the US rule he agrees with. As being anything but perfect.
That is his real irritation. He dose not think animal welfare is important. So any nation that bases rules on things he disagrees with is wrong. And must bow to his superiority.
This is the “drink bleach to cure COVID” all over again
Next you tell switzerland to import and sell your chocolate?
No one eats that vomit tasting faeces except the US. I’d rather be forced to eat Cadbury.
Yeah. It tastes like sugar bound together with wax, with a barely-perceptive flavor of chocolate. Cadbury’s gruesome, but at least it’s chocolate-like.
Cadbury is owned by and American company now.
Wouldn’t it be funny if the majority of the UK became vegetarian all of a sudden?
“The UK maintains non-science-based standards that severely restrict US exports of safe, high-quality beef and poultry products.”
so now we care about science? but still not for climate change/vaccines
Science only matters when it fails to defend people he wants to fuck over
I think we all know how this is going to end… Oh well looks like soon i’ll have to cut all chicken out of my diet.
Have you seen what they do to those chickens before they don’t wash it in chlorine?
As long as they label the chicken, even if it’s just with country of origin, this is a situation the market will handle.
That’s extortion.
Getting his own way is what Trump calls fair.
When (normal) people don’t like you, force is the only way to get them to do what you want. Unrelated, but remember when a judge had to clarify in court that Donald J. Trump is a rapist?
That’s the point of the tariffs. We’ve held out against all sorts of American demands, so they ratchet up the pressure to sign a trade deal preferable to them and soon we are allowing minging food, dropping the Digital Service Tax and watering down the Online Safety Act.
It’s an incredibly crude way of negotiating but it’s not like Trump is known for his subtlety.
Which is the only way the Mango Mussolini ever knew of to get what he wants.
That’s part of why he’s so inept as a businessman: he refuses to consider the wishes, priorities, and well-being of others, even when doing so could benefit himself.
If Trump could read, I would recommend How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie. But I guess he would get tripped up on the parts about empathizing with others to accomplish mutual goals…
Fuck Off
We don’t want the meat off your sick chickens thanks very much!
Okay what if we also wash the chicken in sodium? Then everybody wins!
He can fuck off.
Grandfather Nurgle really is steering the US Isn’t it?
He is generous with his gifts.
just rejoin the eu and you don’t have to worry about the us as a trading partner
The issue is not that the chicken is chlorine washed. It’s that it needs to be chlorine washed to be safe because of the terrible industry practices.
It’s bad for the animals, bad for the taste and bad for your health. So there is no reason to allow it when there is no supply issue. Food is more expensive but the savings from USA imports won’t change that in any significant way.
