I don't want shit food from the US

[flashbac]

So word has it BJ is waiting to see who wins US election. Trump = no deal with EU. Biden = half arsed attempt at EU deal.
I think Trump might win because too many people are so gullible and brainwashed.
So how can we avoid eating crap food from the US? Thus far EU standards have protected us from dangerous additives, excessive phalates in packaging, the list is long.

Very easily. Read the packaging.

Country of origin will be removed from all products as part of a trade deal. You won’t know what country things are from, including British - unless you buy it direct from the farm. And fruit and veg aren’t safe either - much higher levels of pesticides are allowed in US food.

*they know

yanbu, their food is full of corn syrup and hormones.

I followed keto for a while (low carb now) and the amount of times they would talk about grass fed irish butter for example and I was thinking in my naivety, eh, what else would cows be eating? But in America cows do not apparently eat grass. They eat some corn byproduct. The meat is full of hormones to make it softer and to make the cows yield more meat.

we might not be able to rely on packaging if the US insists on doing away with labelling

As mentioned above, they can't make us do away with branding.

@flashbac

Can posters kindly stop parroting the line "read the packaging". As I have posted above, we might not be able to rely on packaging if the US insists on doing away with labelling. They'd be stupid not to as they they we won't accept their crap. And what about school meals, restaurant meals, chocs and biccies? Formula milk made with US components? Use your 'loaf' please.

And they will go out of their WAY to hide the piece of information the customer really needs.

I think ''read the packaging'' is naive

So then only buy stuff that does have country of origin labels?

Nothing will have country of origin labels. It’s the only way the UK will get any sort of trade deal with the US. The US know we don’t want to buy their food. So they will insist that origin labels are removed from all food.

Why would we stop buying British? Literally everything basic milk and meat wise says its from the UK? British meat and milk products are cheap enough anyway

Is the meat halal? All the foods in my children's school is (meat containing food obviously)

@ssd

How many of the posters here who can afford to buy more expensive meat from local producers voted Conservative?

Just what I was thinking. It will disproportionately affect people on very low incomes.

@makingmiracles

I agree, I will be sourcing meat from a butcher instead of supermarket and reading labels very carefully. No way I’m buying chlorinated chicken, bleugh.

One of the MANY reasons I’m glad to be vegetarian!

I'm assuming none of the petitions worked then

Just look what they did to our chocolate No takeaways, meals out...will do as much as I can to buy local.

If you can buy locally that is always a good thing. But I don't know what this "crap food from the US" is based on given that we were selling meat infected with BSE.

For a long time they were checking labels to be sure it hadn't come from the UK.

Why would we import milk from America when we have our own dairy farms in UK? Same with british cheese / bread etc.

I suppose a trade deal with America will bring over things that we can no longer get from Europe? What do we get from Europe? I suppose continental cheeses, meats? Wine?

Why would we stop buying British? Literally everything basic milk and meat wise says its from the UK? British meat and milk products are cheap enough anyway

You won’t know if food is British or not.
If you want to buy meat, you will be safer buying lamb, venison, pheasant, etc- food that isn’t part of the US mass food process.

One of the MANY reasons I’m glad to be vegetarian

Being vegetarian won't save you from all the carcinogenic pesticides.

Why would we import milk from America when we have our own dairy farms in UK? Same with british cheese / bread etc.

Because we will have to, as part of a trade deal.

@slipperywhensparticus

www.gov.uk/government/publications/food-statistics-pocketbook/food-statistics-in-your-pocket-global-and-uk-supply

The government website says only 55% of unprocessed foods are produced in the U.K. That’s not ‘literally everything’ and that doesn’t take into account processed food.

I don't think we'll go vegetarian but I think we will make do with less meat and try to buy it locally.

I agree, their meat production standards are reason they chlorinate their chicken and they have four times the rate of food poisoning from pork.

For me, it's a reason to go fully vegetarian and I'm heading that way anyway.

Corn syrup as an alternative to sugar is terrible for the metabolism. It's part of the reason the USA's rates of obesity, heart disease, diabetes etc have rocketed in recent decades. I'll try to find a link.

@AestheticWitch

I agree, their meat production standards are reason they chlorinate their chicken and they have four times the rate of food poisoning from pork.

For me, it's a reason to go fully vegetarian and I'm heading that way anyway.

Yep. Me too.

If trump gets in again the USA will collapse and no-one will be buying their stuff

I presume UK will still allow food from Ireland to be imported so you could buy that - it will be produced under EU laws.

A label can legally be a lie. Pour anything you like into food, export it to be processed, individually portioned or sometimes merely packaged in another country by a firm registered in that country, and it can take that country's origin label.

Much less meat, all meat will be locally sourced from a local butcher.

If necessary organic veg.

Basically less luxuries paid for by zero take away and convenience foods

We could survive spending more, so we're very lucky.