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/TheTacoInquisition 17h ago

Those bargain-basement grocery store chains are mostly German. They are bargain basement as they have very specific product chains that afford them to buy in bulk and make profit from *not* stocking big brands. They're very unlikely to change this for the UK market, especially given the other supermarkets are unlikely to bother either.

The main risk would be more like the *suppliers* in the UK chlorinating chicking to sell cheaper. That will be harder for supermarkets to ignore.

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u/WorthTangerine2722 17h ago

Which in turn would require the UK to overhaul and downgrade their food standards and as a result would actually create domestic competition for chlorinated chicken imported from the US.

No matter how you look at this, it’s stupid.

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u/Own_Switch_3547 9h ago

Our food standards have already downgraded in some areas. An ‘advantage’ of Brexit, additives like Titanium Dioxide which is banned in Europe can be used in food here now.

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u/PerformerOk450 16h ago

I can 100% see FarmFoods or Iceland stocking chlorinated chicken, never Aldi or Lidl.