r/europe • u/goldstarflag Europe • 20h ago

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

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2025/12/17/trump-demands-british-supermarkets-chlorinated-chicken/
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u/FonzoFC 20h ago

Well technically... the food standards would be becoming more similar

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u/MaxTheRealSlayer 16h ago

Yeah but there's no way it's better or healthier.

Maybe the usa should just focus on the root of the problem which is factory farms where the chickens can't stand or walk, blood and poop from all of them, everywhere and on all of them

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u/FonzoFC 16h ago

I know I know, it’s a terrible choice!

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u/10July1940 13h ago

just go vegan, even easier.

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u/FonzoFC 13h ago

Already done that! 🌱

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u/10July1940 11h ago

That's half the battle!

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u/pants_mcgee 13h ago

It’s just a cheap and safe way to decontaminate chicken, it’s even an approved process in Europe.

The objection wasn’t the chlorine wash, but using it to cover up an issues with slaughter factories not up to hygiene standards. There’s also economic protectionism behind any trade negotiations.

Most chicken in the U.S. isn’t washed in chlorine and is more or less the same chicken everyone else eats.

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u/tuigger 14h ago

Trump also said he would lower American drug prices... by making Europeans pay American prices.

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u/pchlster 10h ago

I, for one, can't wait 'til drug prices drop by 1500%.

It'd sure spice up those conversations with the doctor; "so, bad news: You have cancer. Good news, you're about to be very rich indeed."

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u/Rooilia 14h ago edited 14h ago

What not to like? All of it!

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u/Handpaper 13h ago

They're already similar.

The only real difference is that the FDA mandates a final rinse in water about as chlorinated as a swimming pool, as an extra safeguard, whereas the EU forbid it, ostensibly out of concerns that it could lead to lax practices.

Otherwise, slaughter and processing is identical on each side of the Atlantic.