Anyone for chlorinated chicken?

SmallTown said:
They want to get rid of that don't they? Reduce the labeling on packages. For this very reason I suspect.

I guarantee the Brexiteers will welcome it with open arms. Nothing, damaged economy, damaged world position and even damaged health of the population will stop them praying for their unicorn.
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Smalltown, the thread is not about Brexit. For goodness sake let it go, it appears to be eating into you and that is not good for you.
 
Small Town represents all remainers in not wanting choice . They all want their choices made by a third party unelected chamber.
 
I've been to the USA a dozen times. I will have had chicken while there many times. Never tasted a difference.
Nonetheless it should be clearly labelled.
 
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If you don't want chlorinated chicken then don't buy it. This isn't a mandatory force-fed chlorinated chicken policy. When you see the USA bred chicken next to the UK bred chicken then you can make your own mind up which one you want. Just like now where I presume you all avoid the cheap battery chicken for £3 anyway and pay £12 for a couple of high welfare organically reared free range chicken breasts.
 
boromike85 said:
If you don't want chlorinated chicken then don't buy it. This isn't a mandatory force-fed chlorinated chicken policy. When you see the USA bred chicken next to the UK bred chicken then you can make your own mind up which one you want. Just like now where I presume you all avoid the cheap battery chicken for £3 anyway and pay £12 for a couple of high welfare organically reared free range chicken breasts.
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You have managed to confuse our foodie obsessions - a set of lifestyle choices for the affluent - with a wider and much more serious debate on public nutrition that affects the very poorest in society.
 
boromike85 said:
If you don't want chlorinated chicken then don't buy it. This isn't a mandatory force-fed chlorinated chicken policy. When you see the USA bred chicken next to the UK bred chicken then you can make your own mind up which one you want. Just like now where I presume you all avoid the cheap battery chicken for £3 anyway and pay £12 for a couple of high welfare organically reared free range chicken breasts.
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Have you missed the bit where the US don't want is to label them so we won't know? Or are you ignoring it?
 
SmallTown said:
Have you missed the bit where the US don't want is to label them so we won't know? Or are you ignoring it?
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No, I haven't missed it. Have you missed how the UK based farmers will just label theirs as UK-bred etc so you'll be able to tell quite easily.

Lefty said:
You have managed to confuse our foodie obsessions - a set of lifestyle choices for the affluent - with a wider and much more serious debate on public nutrition that affects the very poorest in society.
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I've confused nothing. Are you now saying that US chicken isn't nutritious? I thought the problem was animal welfare but now you are moving the goalposts. If anything, cheaper fresh meat will be beneficial for the poorest in society. I buy free range eggs because it is better for the chickens than being stuck in a cage but there is no nutritional benefit. That's an ethical choice which you will still be able to make if you so wish by not buying the chlorinated chicken.
 
boromike85 said:
No, I haven't missed it. Have you missed how the UK based farmers will just label theirs as UK-bred etc so you'll be able to tell quite easily.



I've confused nothing. Are you now saying that US chicken isn't nutritious? I thought the problem was animal welfare but now you are moving the goalposts. If anything, cheaper fresh meat will be beneficial for the poorest in society. I buy free range eggs because it is better for the chickens than being stuck in a cage but there is no nutritional benefit. That's an ethical choice which you will still be able to make if you so wish by not buying the chlorinated chicken.
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Haven’t you actually looked at any of the data and reasoning behind the EU and US food standards? It is not primarily about animal welfare it is about what poor animal welfare can result in for the consumer, which is the impact on their health. Washing a dead chicken in chlorine does nothing for the health of a dead chicken, does it? So why undertake a costly procedure? It is to try and make the product safe for consumption. It is largely effective, but not as safe as chicken produced to EU standards.

Your approach boils down to less regulation and responsibility at state level and trust the public to do more themselves. Great in theory but it will have negative outcomes. It just will.

What are you suggesting, that like cigarettes or some soft drinks we introduce a tax on chlorinated chicken? That will mean of course that we negotiate a trade deal that allows us to inspect and track US producers, much like the EU insist on being able to do in third world countries for H&S standards and even wage levels in factories supplying the Single Market, or just accept their word for it. This would be typical of Brexiters. There they were complaining of the bloated cost and bureaucracy of the EU and it’s 30,000 civil servants. Instead, just to deal with the extra Customs issues we have to hire 50,000 of our own. And our annual contribution, which was less than 0.5% of GDP, is to be replaced with a reduction in GDP of, AT BEST, 1.4% of GDP if we stay in the EEA (which we won’t),but could be more than 9% under no deal WTO terms which is what we are heading for it seems. And brexiters get shirty when called stupid ffs.

Or, like cigarettes, should we have a clear label on the chicken stating that this chicken has been chlorine washed and then stating that this doesn’t get rid of salmonella and detail what salmonella and listeria can do to you?

I mean, the most pragmatic thing is to stay in the Single Market.
 
boromike85 said:
No, I haven't missed it. Have you missed how the UK based farmers will just label theirs as UK-bred etc so you'll be able to tell quite easily.



I've confused nothing. Are you now saying that US chicken isn't nutritious? I thought the problem was animal welfare but now you are moving the goalposts. If anything, cheaper fresh meat will be beneficial for the poorest in society. I buy free range eggs because it is better for the chickens than being stuck in a cage but there is no nutritional benefit. That's an ethical choice which you will still be able to make if you so wish by not buying the chlorinated chicken.
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Do you know for a fact there's no nutritional benefit?
 
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