Government trying to soften us up to accept chlorinated chicken

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www.theguardian.com/world/2019/sep/13/science-on-safety-of-chlorinated-chicken-misunderstood

Some US food frauds:

Farmer Behind the U.S.'s Largest Organic Food Fraud Scheme Dies by Suicide

There was some pet food scandal, too, I can't find. Some imported ingredient from China that was fraudulent, added to pet food, and then that product was widely distributed (could be exported to UK in future). Pet food supplies are just as complicated as any product.

So if you bought an American product, what if it use honey used by one of these suppliers?

Salmon fraud

Just google 'food fraud'.

For old fashioned food safety, search for campylobacter, salmonella, e. coli ...outbreaks

I don’t care if my chicken is chlorinated.

I DO care if it’s raised in cruelty and slaughtered in horrific conditions because “it will be cleaned up with chlorine” after.

It’s like preparing your salad with shot in your hands then dowsing it all in dettol after.

it would have to be clearly identified
I just wouldn't buy it
simple as that

It would have to be clearly identified

Not if a trade deal said it wouldn't be.

It's not that simple @contentedsoul
The US do not want it to be easily identifiable, that's part of the proposed trade terms. And even under current labelling rules, if some food distributer buys it in then sells to a food manufacturer to make pies or whatever, its provenance will disappear.

I would have thought that food safety standards would have insisted that such items were clearly labelled, otherwise are they not open for miselling libel?
Besides its not the chicken that worries me its US having a say in our NHS.

No surprise that the government led by a man who was a US citizen until very recently would be doing this.

Though I don't think he would get a deal agreed that would pass in the US Congress, and if people thought that there was the possibility of chicken being chlorinated, they would eat alternative meats. Supermarkets would be quick to advise where chicken came from.

Read up on the cruelty of pig farming in the EU. I watched a documentary on it a few years ago and since then have always made sure any meat I buy is British and outdoor reared.

Mama

There is loads of food scandel in eu, loads.
It's such a vast area, hard to police and a willingness not to police it. So I take eu food standard with a large pinch of salt.

I tend to stick to British pork, we have world wide leading standards on that, and other meat I only buy form reputable people.
We do buy less meat, it's more of a treat really. But only UK.

But of course the eu is amazing and wondeful, it can do no wrong.. It's the big bad USA we have to concern ourselves with.

Contentedsoul - It is highly unlikely our NHS would be part of any deal. But I do think that we need to stop taking our NHS for granted if we want to keep it. Missed appointments cost the NHS millions every year.

I think you have to be pretty dense not to ask yourself wtf is going on such that chicken needs (effectively) to be soaked in bleach?

It's the big bad USA we have to concern ourselves with

What's Trump's view on regulations?
Unnecessary, bureucratic, holding back companies.....

So forgive me if I have concerns over the US and its attitudes towards regulations.