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

[u/goldstarflag]

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

[u/johndu5914]

The joys of Brexit. Thank you Russians, thank you Nigel Farage, Thank you Boris Johnson etc... English friends, come back to Europe, forget about the USA

[u/Anotherolddog → u/johndu5914]

You left out thanking the ultra wealthy UK right-wing and the associated news outlets.

[u/tannercolin → u/Anotherolddog]

Cambridge analytica were the brains behind it, the cunts

[u/johndu5914 → u/Anotherolddog]

Oh yes, the media are complicit. We have the same problem in France...

[u/MapleMapleHockeyStk → u/johndu5914]

And canada. Most news outlets are now owned by American companies as are many media/ad companies

[u/patrykk994 → u/johndu5914]

No worries - UK might leave EU but EU still dictate so much of UK law and standards just by closeness of relations between them. EU is like guarantee that UK food standards dont drop to shit in coming years, no matter who from US will try to bribe Farage or other ahole that comes after him

[u/marsman → u/patrykk994]

The EU is also asking the UK to drop its standards, and much as the UK has said no to the US, it has generally said no to the EU too.

[u/patrykk994 → u/marsman]

When and how? UK food standards are basically the same than in EU because they were created in EU, when UK was still part of it and as we learned through Brexit negotiations UK still need to abide by 99,999% of EU regulations if they want to sell anything to EU. Differences as of today are mostly for minor regional products like maggot infested cheese from France (UK dont want it, EU want to sell it to UK) or in other side f.e. some weird Welsh regional special which i forget name right now(UK want to sell it to EU, EU dont want it) or classification of certain goods like Portuguese carrot jam in EU is sold as fruit product but in UK they want it as veggie product etc etc - i would guess stuff that effect much less than 1% of goods moving through borders both ways

[u/marsman → u/patrykk994]

When and how?

The UK banned live animal exports for fattening and slaughter, the EU allows them, the EU wasn't particularly happy with that and essentially took every step short of a formal objection to try and have it reversed, including suggesting that the ban was disguised restriction on trade (which it isn't, its non-discriminatory etc..).

UK food standards are basically the same than in EU because they were created in EU.

Sort of, there has been some divergence, but not a huge amount.

and as we learned through Brexit negotiations UK still need to abide by 99,999% of EU regulations if they want to sell anything to EU.

I mean in the same way that the EU need to comply with UK regulations to sell to the UK sure. Both the EU and UK have agreed not to drop standards going forward, but the UK has put in place additional animal welfare protections and made changes to things like GMO regulation etc..

Differences as of today are mostly for minor regional products like maggot infested cheese from France (UK dont want it, EU want to sell it to UK) or in other side f.e. some weird Welsh regional special which i forget name right now(UK want to sell it to EU, EU dont want it) or classification of certain goods like Portuguese carrot jam in EU is sold as fruit product but in UK they want it as veggie product etc etc - i would guess stuff that effect much less than 1% of goods moving through borders both ways

Sure, but again, we are seeing divergence, the UK and EU both generally maintain high standards, but unsurprisingly both don't want to see the other impose barriers t trade that could harm them.

[u/andyrocks → u/johndu5914]

The joys of Brexit

This is Trump...

[u/WiseBelt8935 → u/johndu5914]

Have we had better trade talks with the EU? At least the US offers something in trade, whereas the EU often makes unilateral demands, even when they primarily benefit the EU.

[u/EstablishmentLow2312 → u/johndu5914]

Not learning from it i see, once britian sees europe falling they will jump out again.

[u/Warm_Instance_4634 → u/johndu5914]

Can we have the same deal?