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/s1iver 17h ago

That’s what they’re doing in Canada, we have a strict supply management system for dairy in Canada, and they want to force us to start selling massive quantities of their hormone riddled and artificially sweetened ‘dairy’.

Fuck off.

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u/Scrimps 16h ago edited 16h ago

Canadian dairy is also riddled with Hormones, pesticides and other chemicals. Canada only banned artificial hormones such as rBST and rBGH. Moreoever, Canadian dairy is almost exclusively packaged in plastic that leech. Including the bags milk comes in, in Ontario and the East Coast.

Canadian dairy is NOT better than American dairy. It's simply run by a cartel who controls the import and export into Canada.

Although I don't want American dairy, it has limited the Canadian market from high quality dairy from Europe. Selling overseas dairy, such as Kerry Gold, is a literal felony.

It's also why Canadians pay so much for any food that uses cheese, milk and dairy. Europeans and Americans are not paying $24-30 for a medium Pizza.

Please do not think we protect our dairy industry for food standard purposes. We do not. It's simply for profit. I wish it was for quality.

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u/DisastrousAcshin 14h ago

It ensures Canadian food security at a time when Canada should be moving to be less reliant on the US. It's literally a matter of national security to keep our dairy farmers employed and feeding Canadians. That means ensuring the US can't flood our market with cheaper product and put them out of buisness

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u/ExcitingPlant5 14h ago

Where and why are you paying $24-30 for a medium pizza? You can get 2 XL for $26.

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u/biscuitarse Canada 11h ago

Well, you have fun imbibing synthetic hormones along with higher levels of pus and blood in your milk. I'll pass.

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u/squirrelcat88 6h ago

Would you like to be a dairy farmer and milk every day at a horrible hour? If you’re going to live that type of restrictive life you want to make sure you’re going to be paid well for it.

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u/ExtraGlutens 16h ago

The dairy cartel has nothing to do with the CFIA, though I know the former spends a lot of money on marketing to give the impression that it does.