Trump tells May to abandon 'unwarranted' food standards for Brexit trade deal

[Denzil_DC]

5. Welcome to DU. Another person lucky enough to live in Scotland here.

Chlorination of chicken as opposed to proper animal husbandry is one issue, and I'm sure an industry shill like Johnson will have been well briefed to cloud the issues as much as possible. There are a whole host of others, like the use of antibiotics as growth promoters, the degradation of "organic" standards in the US versus the UK where it does actually mean something, etc. That's before we get into the economics of the scant and grudging support our own agricultural industries are likely to see after Brexit when faced with even more competition from abroad. That's assuming they even survive the transition, of course.

And what's Johnson's expertise in this area? He's an investment banker with a shady past in tax dodging (see here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woody_Johnson#Private_ventures_and_legal_problems ).

What you describe is exactly the dilemma the UK will face in trying to accommodate other trading blocs' requirements from a position of relative weakness and isolation. Food standards are just one aspect, others include quid pro quo visas for the movement of people. I don't have a problem with immigration. But Theresa May famously does, and so, we're vehemently assured, do many of those who voted for Brexit. And yet she's insistent on pressing on.

In the words of Johnny Rotten, "Ever feel like you've been cheated?"