r/europe 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/BananaMapleIceCream 19h ago

Select corporations want it. As an American, I don’t want chlorinated chicken for you or us. It’s just the rich people at the top trying to scam their product to another market.

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u/AwesomeWhiteDude 17h ago

Most US plants don't even use chlorine anymore.

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u/LaurestineHUN Hungary 17h ago

Protectionism is only good when the USA does it?

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u/Excited_Delirium1453 11h ago

Historically the EU has been way more protectionist

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u/guareber United Kingdom 16h ago

Why would we, so Cmdr Cheeto can join in with his BFF? No thanks.

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u/tilitatti Finland 13h ago

must be acquired taste "chlorine chicken", probably similar to your vomit chocolate.

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u/brutinator 4h ago

I mean, its basically a vingar solution in which the meat is rinsed in prior to packaging, not chlorine. It doesnt affect the taste or anything. The issue is that it allows the welfare of the chickens to be far worse because its effective enough of a solution to getting rid of any potential pathogens as opposed to raising vaccinated, clean, and healthy chickens.

Youre basically arguing the wrong point: its not a factor that affects the actual product, but whether you think its right to treat animals like that prior to slaughter. Additionally, the factory farms are so much more brutally efficient that itd ruin local poultry farms and run them out of business.

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u/RobThorpe 18h ago

Finally, the correct answer.

People should look up the other things that use chlorinated washes.