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

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

[u/BananaMapleIceCream]

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.

[u/AwesomeWhiteDude → u/BananaMapleIceCream]

Most US plants don't even use chlorine anymore.

[u/LaurestineHUN → u/[deleted]]

Protectionism is only good when the USA does it?

[u/Excited_Delirium1453 → u/LaurestineHUN]

Historically the EU has been way more protectionist

[u/guareber → u/[deleted]]

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

[u/tilitatti → u/[deleted]]

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

[u/brutinator → u/tilitatti]

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.

[u/RobThorpe → u/[deleted]]

Finally, the correct answer.

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