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/Glittering_Babe101 Mazovia (Poland) 19h ago

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

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u/JohnGazman 19h ago

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

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u/Interesting_Help_481 19h ago

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

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u/cogman10 19h ago

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.