I don't want shit food from the US

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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.

@Devilesko

I buy from local markets and avoid packet stuff as much as possible. Cooking from scratch will avoid American shite.

Cooking from scratch won’t help as ingredients will be imported and cheap

I know I am being negative but I cannot see how things will be ok

WTO rules do not restrict voluntary systems of labelling or other indicators that may be useful to consumers, to inform them of the origin and standards that apply to the production of food

But the whole point of a trade deal with the US is that it is not on WTO rules - so whatever the WTO rules happen to be, they are irrelevant.

If people can shop online, then they can use a food hub if there is one locally. Find website, log in, shop, pay and it I'd delivered or you pick the order up. I use it because it supports local producers and I know where it's grown/baked/reared/made.

Voluntary labelling might perhaps apply to local products.
(Let's say that all those MP's voting to overturn the HoL's efforts to protect UK food standards had temporarily lost it that day, for the sake of argument...)
That might then reveal just how insufficient local products are to requirements: what do you do if there is only unlabelled food available in your price range, or at all, once everyone who can afford it switches to buying only voluntarily labelled UK produce?

I can predict all of the free school meals being provided to children coming cheap from the USA.
Torys have already shown their contempt for them.

I hate all this 'I will just buy local.'

So will I. Because I have some lovely farm shops nearby and I have both the time and money to use them and already take a lot of care about what I buy for environmental and health reasons. There are so many people who are not in that position. Lots of people already have a shit diet in this country and have a tiny budget for food or don't have the knowledge or skills to cook good meals for themselves. It's one of the reasons why we've been more vulnerable to Covid, I'm sure. Why aren't we thinking of them in all this?

Go on YouTube and look up the vloggers Amber Lynn Reid or Kandy Foxx. They are extreme examples of what the American diet can do to you. We really, really don't want to be taking even a step in that direction. Why in 2020 are we not able to look outside our own privilege? Brexit is an absolute car crash and will affect the poorest the most.

Kandy Foxx

Don't buy/consume it then

@thegcatsmother

If people can shop online, then they can use a food hub if there is one locally. Find website, log in, shop, pay and it I'd delivered or you pick the order up. I use it because it supports local producers and I know where it's grown/baked/reared/made.

Most people will not be able to do this.

@unchienandalusia

Don't buy/consume it then

Have you actually read the thread?

I'm worried about food standards changing and while reading all the comments have become even more alarmed I've found this petition on line which i have signed campaigns.which.co.uk/save-food-standards/ hopefully it will do some good

@unchienandalusia

Don't buy/consume it then

Have you read the points made in this thread?

It’s not as simple as dont buy it then

@Lemonsyellow
😂

You got there first

This conversation is frustrating

A lot of naivety and ‘I’m alright jack’

I am a firm believer in looking out for each other.

@Nicklebox
Thank you
I have signed this.

It needs 22000 more signatures.

I signed another about backing British farmers
Write to your MPs - for what it’s worth.
The more voices the better.

Meat is still labelled in America
For the domestic market.

So the domestic market in the US can label their meat; "born, raised, grass-fed and harvested in the USA" etc. but the domestic market in the UK will have to remove labels for "Welsh Lamb"? Nonsense.

It’s not nonsense
It’ll be the basis of a trade deal

Read the packaging, but from local shops.

I think any Americans on here must be laughing their arses off (asses off) at the idea British people are worried about the quality of their food being compromised by having more American imports.

British food is for the most part the laughing stock of the civilised world. American food is nicer and cheaper (admittedly reflected in their obesity levels).

I suppose a trade deal with America will bring over things that we can no longer get from Europe?

How will Brexit stop us buying food from Europe?

Via a trade deal
The U.K. market being flooded by US imports

Aldi;

"We’re committed to sourcing our products from the UK;"

www.aldi.co.uk/british-quality

Don't buy it. Simple.

Yes I have read it thanks. I disagree.

@VenusTiger

Don't buy it. Simple.

Yet another person who doesn’t understand.

Aldi signed that pledge in 2015,

Also they state that they will buy Scottish produce for Scottish stores etc
No mention of England

@Lemonsyellow so people who disagree with you don't understand. Right.