Europe rejects US chlorinated chicken, citing food safety concerns

[In It to Win It]

President Donald Trump is pushing for more countries to import meat and poultry from America, but Europeans have long pointed to food safety concerns over U.S. chicken washed in chlorine.

Jonathan Reynolds, the U.K. business secretary, recently told Sky News the country will “never change” its food standards when asked if “chlorinated chicken was on the table or off the table” during trade talks.

The move comes after the European Union and the United Kingdom failed to avoid Trump’s sweeping tariffs, in which the United States imposed a 20% tax on EU imports and a 10% tax on all U.K. imports.

“The U.K. maintains non-science-based standards that severely restrict U.S. exports of safe, high-quality beef and poultry products,” the White House said in a statement.

In the U.S., chicken is sometimes treated with a chemical rinse, like chlorine, to kill bacteria before it’s exported.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/europe-rejects-us-chlorinated-chicken-124136228.html

[bucolic_frolic]

1. "non-science-based" is now bragging rights?

We stoop below the curb so many days now.

[RockRaven]

3. It is meant as a very very hypocritical insult, from the people who hired RFKJr

and Dr Oz.

[FirstLight]

2. ew... gross

I'm glad I'm leaning more and more towards plant-based eating... everytime I try to buy meat lately I'm grossed out thinking of how it's processed, and especially the fact we have no more inspectors since DOGE... :zoinks:

[Raftergirl]

4. From the people who don't believe in science.

[sinkingfeeling]

5. Hang tough, Europe.

[no_hypocrisy]

6. 500% tariff for you!

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

7. Trump eats it all the time and look what it's done for him