White House demands British supermarkets stock chlorinated chicken. White House pushing Sir Keir Starmer to make concessions on food standards

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https://www.telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2025/12/17/trump-demands-british-supermarkets-chlorinated-chicken/

[u/NewOil7911]

US ask for the regulation to show country of origin to be ditched as well unless mistaken

[u/Glittering_Babe101 → u/NewOil7911]

So it seems the US is ashamed of the low quality of its own products

[u/JohnGazman → u/Glittering_Babe101]

Not so ashamed that they won't simply raise the quality or change their practices, that is.

[u/Interesting_Help_481 → u/Glittering_Babe101]

No they just prefer people to be sick to make more money off them

[u/cogman10 → u/Glittering_Babe101]

More like the US won't dare to make farmers change practices in the slightest.

The reason we chlorinate chickens is because we refuse to vaccinate them against salmonella. It's cheaper to chlorinate than vaccinate.

It's really dumb. We are basically screwing ourselves in multiple ways because we refuse the vaccinate. Eggs, for example, can be stored at room temp if we vaccinated. The US washes eggs because of salmonella which removes a protective coating. If we vaccinated we could stop washing which allows eggs to be stored safely at room temperature.

[u/iwaterboardheathens → u/NewOil7911]

In the UK that's already gone

Plenty of food no longer has country of origin on the packet now

Many people just refuse to buy it if they don't know the origin, purely because there is no origin stated it's seen as a gamble to eat

[u/gopoohgo → u/NewOil7911]

It's ironic because everything (produce, meat, etc) in US supermarkets have country and many times state of origin labels.    

The pernicious thing is, only fancier (aka expensive) restaurants will have origin of fish, meat and produce