The US wants labelling reduced. It will get it. You’ll also end up with ‘British’ products where the meat is imported from the US and ‘processed’ here - cooked, sliced, packaged.
Brexit was about separating from the EU trade block - which leaves us as a small country that has to bend over for bigger countries in order to get the trade deals we need to have a viable economy. We are going to have to make huge concessions.
Our politicians can’t keep our food standards because we’re in such a weak negotiating position. The US wants access to the U.K. food market and it’s going to get it. British farmers are going to find themselves competing against cheap, imported meat that’s full of antibiotics and chlorinated. They farm meat on a huge, industrial scale. The animals are pumped full of hormones and steroids to speed growth and weight gain. Most US crops are genetically modified and there are chemicals used in their production that are banned here. Their milk is allowed to have double the level of white blood cells in it that ours is - extra pus on your cereal anyone?
’the US allows far more pesticide residue on fruit and vegetables, and allows 72 chemicals banned in the EU, including some responsible for serious harm‘
’ractopamine, is regularly fed to industrially farmed pigs in the US, despite making the animals collapse, turn aggressive, suffer liver and kidney dysfunction, and even die. But it probably affects humans too, which is why not just the EU but also Russia and China have banned this dangerous chemical, as well as US pork that contains it.’
The Guardian