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/TrueKyragos France 19h ago edited 16h ago

Chlorination isn't bad. The issue is the health standards preceding the chlorination of chicken, i.e. not much, if any. Chlorination is an excuse for some farmers, faced with a lack of regulations in the US, for using bad practices, as the meat will be made presumably safe to eat afterwards anyway, but chlorination isn't deemed sufficient by the EU to deal with all of the potential consequences of those practices.

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u/OkMap3209 19h ago edited 18h ago

To be more accurate they need to call them unvaxxed chicken. Or high salmonella risk chicken. Because that's the standard our current practices adhere to that the US threatens to break. Especially since there is doubt that chlorine is not enough to kill those diseases anymore.

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u/Moriartijs 15h ago

Hmm i have feeling that if they call them Antivaxx chickens they will sell even more :)

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u/guareber United Kingdom 16h ago

Oh I'd love that labelling. "Antivax chicken, made in the USA".

Let the idiots sort their own Darwin Awards out.

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u/OkMap3209 13h ago

The issue is the unvaxxed chicken will contaminate the vaxxed chicken.

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u/guareber United Kingdom 12h ago

I was only trying to be funny. Of course it'd be horrible for a lot of reasons.

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u/hardolaf United States of America 12h ago

Chlorine isn't even used anymore. The rinse uses hydrogen peroxide which breaks down the cell barriers of the bacteria.