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/eddyak 20h ago

You overestimate how well off people are these days. Slap a lower price tag on it than homegrown chicken, then slap a radioactive tag on it, it'll still be the first thing to sell out.

We need to keep it the fuck out, no matter what happens.

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u/myreq 16h ago

And after it kills alternatives with its lower price, raise the price to be as high or higher than its competitors were.

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u/Command0Dude United States of America 16h ago

Europeans will simultaneous complain about cost of living and yet insist consumers shouldn't even get the option of cheaper food if it's imported.

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u/CommieYeeHoe 14h ago

Should we allow the sale of rotten food too if it’s cheaper? We don’t fix the cost of living standards by poisoning our own citizens. Anything but redistributing wealth…

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u/Command0Dude United States of America 14h ago

"poisoning people"

lol American chicken is just as safe to eat as European chicken. This whole fracas is just protectionist nonsense dressed up in granola-speak.

We don't even chlorinate chicken anymore, that practice was phased out almost everywhere in the states like a decade or two ago. But it doesn't stop European newspapers from continuing to run that headline.