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    Trump tells UK to buy chlorinated chicken from US if it wants tariff relief

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    1. TarnyOwl on

      Another step away from the EU single market, another step towards the US. Makes sense if the US sees the EU as the enemy and the UK as a potential vassal.

    3. IsWasMaybeAMefi on

      No, and I hope that anyone in a company that starts doing this whistleblows so we can then boycott that company.

    4. socratic-meth on

      > Britain must allow US chlorine-washed chicken into UK markets if it wants relief from sweeping tariffs, Donald Trump has indicated.

      Relax our rules today, we’ll be licking his balls tomorrow.

    6. Otherwise-Hour-7524 on

      Let’s hope Starmer doesn’t bend over for heir trump, but remember hope is what you have when there is nothing else

    7. CastleofWamdue on

      Translated for Brexiteers.

      Trump tells you gay to give up parliamentary sovereignty.

    8. BadgerGirl1990 on

      ewww no thanks, enjoy paying 35% more for your decent cars yanks im good with my chicken not having pool chemicals in it

    9. SneakyShadySnek on

      I have never seen US chicken in a UK supermarket in the fives years I have been here. Is that a thing?

    10. Shot-Personality9489 on

      Just needs his visit full on revoking. Our government needs to start listening to its people on issues like this, its clear that playing the nice guy has worked, now its time to get serious. You’ve bought us time, that time should be used to tell them to fuck off with things like this and to move towards an EU co-operation.

      I’d rather die in the trenches surrounded by French, German, Italian, Spanish, Norweigians, Lithuanians, all of our European allies, fighting against America.

      I’d just fucking stop eating chicken. Whatever it takes to get rid of the American poison that’s infesting us.

      Boycott the US.

    12. summ190 on

      How much do we need to buy? Can we buy one and throw it away just to get the discount?

    13. Greedy-Tutor3824 on

      The biggest thing is we need to wean ourselves off of US technology. We need serious investment into software they can’t control. This is the big stranglehold they have on us. 

      Once we’ve done that, we can tell them to go away or pay their corporation tax fairly. The US whining they get a raw deal when their businesses pay fuck all is farcical. If this is what a ‘roughly even trade’ looks like, and even then they try to force their nasty shitty chlorine chicken on us, then we need to move away from the US and not look back.

    14. MrMonkeyman79 on

      This is always the sticking point with US trade deals and we’ve held firm before so hopeful we’ll do so again.

      This would be billed as protecting British farmers from cheaper lower quality imports and the govt desperately need to start repairing their relationship with farmers.

      It’s not like there’s a public demand for US bleached chicken and their ‘roided beef. The govt could sell whatever damage the US try to inflict on us as lesser than what we would suffer of we accepted their rock bottom food standards.

    16. TheRealCostaS on

      If they do then I hope they label it as such and no one buys that vile stuff.

    18. iamdadmin on

      If this becomes a thing I will check the source and boycott it. Nope. Fuck you trump.

    19. Sethoria34 on

      First the europen union wont strengthn our defensive ties with eachohter unless we give them access to our fishing waters:
      Now trump wants us to eat fucking up chicken?

      What is it with goverments and food right now????

    21. UseADifferentVolcano on

      In the UK about 3-4% of people get food poisoning each year. In the US it is 16-17%!

      We aren’t being picky, the US has terrible food standards.

    22. StraightRed12 on

      Buy from Brazil(who took a tariff slap) and help convert their world leading livestock exports from growing BRICS economy.

    23. Knitcase on

      I seriously hope that the UK gov tell him where to go. We want to keep our food standards. Everything else is going to the dogs, at least give us the reassurance that we are not further disadvantaging our farmers, weakening our animal welfare standards, poisoning our children and crapping up the planet by importing muck from the US.

    24. badgersruse on

      First it’ll be the bleached chickens. Then it’ll be the hormone and antibiotic beef. Then the gm wheat. The list won’t end.

    25. Jay_6125 on

      Thank God for Brexit so we can negotiate as a sovereign nation and Trump went easy on us.

    26. Traditional_Tea_1879 on

      I think us meat products should be allowed ( as they probably are already) to be imported to the UK, subject to our food standards ( no chlorinated chicken it seems).
      On a completely different subject, when are we setting the correct rate for digital services tax? Currently it stands on 2% on profits that are larger than £25m. How about 25% from start? ( Or at least a friendly reciprocal 10% on all profits?)

    27. ManOnNoMission on

      How about America starts having food standards instead of dumping chemicals on everything.

    28. Crittsy on

      I don’t see the problem as long as it’s properly labeled – no one is going to buy it, only take it on consignment, if nobody buys it the producers don’t get paid, will soon stop selling it

    29. Ambersfruityhobbies on

      What, like 1 bleach chicken? I guess we can do that. How would he like it cooked? Also in bleach?

      Are we struggling for chickens here or something? Or is bleach chicken a delicacy there?

    30. Rayvinblade on

      So it begins… “Oh we avoided the worst of the tariffs, the UK is in the best position of everyone, the future is bright for us” Open wide while the Americans force chlorinated chicken down your throats.

    31. dinkymajesty on

      But even if the uk agreed surely the products would be labelled from the USA, and as a consumer we can just not buy it. Or is it that they want to sell it into the food chain (ready meals, chicken nuggets etc) or fool people into buying it?

      Please note I’m
      Just asking because I don’t know. Not defending or supporting
      The madness in anyway

    32. Lettuce-Pray2023 on

      It’s bad enough that free market capitalism wants us to be happy that literal shit is being dumped into our waterways by water companies – now they want us to import chemical pumped chicken.

    33. macarouns on

      Can’t we just buy a handful and chuck em in the bin? He’ll have forgotten about it in a week

    34. Cancerousman on

      If they stop filling them full of antibiotics, raising them like rats in a sewer and then covering them in bleach… Maybe.

    35. Thatweasel on

      Buy chicken from a country currently undergoing a birdflu outbreak, that’s appointed people to positions in government overseeing this who don’t believe in vaccines or basic facts of health and science?

      Seems like a great idea.

    36. sodpower on

      I thought RFK was declorinating the chickens? They don’t seem to have got round to that yet.

    37. InvictaBlade on

      I don’t understand this chicken obsession. Whenever I’m in the US, it’s way more expensive to buy chicken than here. I can’t imagine that shipping it across the Atlantic would make it any cheaper – it’s just not competitive.

    38. Mootpoint_691 on

      Two words and the second one is ‘off’.

      Horrible treatment of the poor birds before they’re killed and then bleached. You are effectively eating bleach.

    40. TonberryHS on

      “Eat our parasite filled bleached chicken or we’ll slap you with a tariff” – isn’t this just blackmail?
      “Do this or else…”

      Get fucked Orange Man.

    42. InvictaBlade on

      I don’t understand this chicken obsession. Whenever I’m in the US, it’s way more expensive to buy chicken than here. I can’t imagine that shipping it across the Atlantic would make it any cheaper – it’s just not competitive.

    43. vms-crot on

      No thanks. I’ll continue to eat real food that’s a little bit more expensive.

    44. SkullDump on

      They don’t even have any eggs and now they want to kill even more of the eggs layers? Fuck me sideways!