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White House pushing Sir Keir Starmer to make concessions on food standards

Donald Trump is demanding American chlorinated chicken be sold in British supermarkets.

The White House is pushing Sir Keir Starmer to make concessions on food standards in order to revive a transatlantic tech partnership that drastically collapsed on Tuesday.

Jamieson Greer, the US trade envoy, wants Britain to accept hormone-treated chicken and beef, a term he was not able to achieve when the wider US-UK trade deal was first signed in May.

“He is seeking to use the tech partnership as leverage on trade deal concessions he still wants but that didn’t get the first round,” a source close to the negotiations told The Telegraph.

The US pulled the tech prosperity agreement over complaints Britain’s Online Safety Act would police American AI companies. Washington is using this complaint in order to secure fresh compromises in its trade deal with London, The Telegraph understands.

Insiders say the tech agreement collapsed in part because of the absence of an ambassador to Washington, a post which has remained vacant since Lord Mandelson was fired in September over his friendship with Jeffrey Epstein.

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[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 2 points 5 days ago

LOL. "Eat shit, once Great Britain".

"At least we're not forced by Brussels to eat healthy delicious food"

[–] mycodesucks@lemmy.world 117 points 1 week ago (1 children)

This was the promise of Brexit - no more of those pesky, overbearing EU safety regulations in exchange for trading deals with the devil for bad products that don't come CLOSE to replacing what was lost.

[–] phutatorius@lemmy.zip 28 points 1 week ago (1 children)

That's it: a license for greedy manufacturers and farmers to sell us dangerous shite that used to be banned.

[–] tyr0sine@mander.xyz 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Someone tell Upton Sinclair!

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[–] potatopotato@sh.itjust.works 111 points 1 week ago (5 children)

IIRC it's not just hormones it's bleached because we consider chicken with salmonella to still be fit for consumption. Our farming processes are so bad that we have to bleach the chicken to attempt to mitigate the hearth hazard.

[–] nul9o9@lemmy.dbzer0.com 54 points 1 week ago (2 children)

It's honestly embarrassing. Every time I hear about an ecoli outbreak on leafy greens, I'm bewildered on how hard it is for our farmers to keep cow shit out of their crops.

[–] Lemmyoutofhere@lemmy.ca 38 points 1 week ago (2 children)
[–] some_kind_of_guy@lemmy.world 64 points 1 week ago (2 children)
[–] dyathinkhesaurus@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I see what you did there 😁

And yes, some countries use human faeces as a fertiliser. Not sure if that's the case in the UK though... I doubt it, the literal and figurative shit storm that would create... 😬

[–] Lemmyoutofhere@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Also farm workers not allowed to leave the field to go to the bathroom.

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[–] ayyy@sh.itjust.works 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It’s human shit because we pay field workers by the amount they harvest and ensure that they are so poor and desperate that they would rather shit in the crop than lose out on a few cents of wages and walk a mile to the nearest bathroom, if one is even provided at all.

[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 1 points 5 days ago

Processed human shit is used on crops. The Romans started this, but did not process the feces, so most of Rome carried parasites.

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[–] obinice@lemmy.world 53 points 1 week ago (16 children)

America has been trying to get us to legalise their shitty chicken for years, fuck right off. We produce our own locally to a much higher standard.

I'll buy your Good & Plenty though, my gawd that tastes goooood

[–] Schal330@lemmy.world 26 points 1 week ago

I'm not advocating for American chlorinated chicken, but I'm not sure our chicken is to a much higher standard. Over the last few years I've noticed a decline in the quality of our chicken from white striping to woody breast. I guess this is caused by them using breeds that grow quickly.

[–] wischi@programming.dev 15 points 1 week ago (1 children)

And now the UK left the EU, they have way less bargaining power.

[–] nogooduser@lemmy.world 20 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Wait. No. That can’t be right.

We were supposed to be able to get much better deals when we could negotiate our own. /s

Honestly, I don’t understand how anyone fell for that line. How can a single country have more negotiating power than 28 countries including that single country?

[–] phutatorius@lemmy.zip 11 points 1 week ago

Yeah, your pricing power is far greater when you're smaller, duh.

Perfect example: any individual negotiating with a giant multinational.

[–] Stamau123@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago

Are you my Grandpa? The only one I know who eats Good & Plenty

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[–] 0tan0d@lemmy.world 48 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Eat my gross chicken or we can't be friends is peak US GOP behavior.

[–] BoJackHorseman@lemmy.world 20 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The dying US empire is sucking it's allies dry

[–] treesquid@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It's alienating its allies so they cease to be allies

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[–] OwlPaste@lemmy.world 46 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Yeah not going to be buying that shit, no thank you

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[–] hellequin67@piefed.social 26 points 1 week ago (1 children)

They can stock it all they want, doesn't mean it's going to get bought.

[–] phutatorius@lemmy.zip 30 points 1 week ago (1 children)

They'll also pressure the UK to prevent it being labeled as chlorinated.

[–] ms_lane@lemmy.world 22 points 1 week ago (3 children)

It's going to pretty easy to tell 'Product of USA' just means contaminated/unsafe to eat food.

Shouldn't buy US food even outside the current administration, they don't grow or produce ANYTHING edible there.

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[–] justaman123@lemmy.world 22 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Chicken in Europe tastes so much better than in the USA

[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 51 points 1 week ago

Life in Europe tastes better than in the USA.

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[–] nymnympseudonym@piefed.social 21 points 1 week ago

Mandatory Freedom Marinade chickens

[–] ryannathans@aussie.zone 20 points 1 week ago (1 children)

TIL we chlorinate our chicken in Australia too

[–] dyathinkhesaurus@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

TIL that too 🤯

[–] 5714@lemmy.dbzer0.com 19 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] skeezix@lemmy.world 25 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I heard that in the US they even bleach their assholes.

[–] meco03211@lemmy.world 17 points 1 week ago

Nah. Just spray tan them.

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[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 13 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

They also demand that from Switzerland, so we "only" get 14% tax instead of 30+. Despite them being hurt by it too, especially with gold trade.

And we should allow Teslas, despite them not meeting safety requirements. Is what our company bosses agreed to, without asking the parliament.

[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago

If you want cheap chickens and eggs for billions of humans, factory farming is a necessity. If you factory farm, there has to be a safe level of salmonella allowed, or nuke the whole facility over any infection. Also, if you factory farm, there will be wild price swings in chicken and eggs as factories are nuked for bird flu infections.

But we have choices!

a) Cook your fucking chicken and eggs.

b) Don't eat chicken or eggs.

c) Grow your own.

And for my British friends:

d) Boycott American chicken.

[–] Naevermix@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Lads, do you remember the Boston Tea Party? It's payback time!

[–] chiliedogg@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

London Tender Dinner?

Devonshire Disinfectant Dinner?

Birmingham Bleach Banquet?

Hampshire Hormone Hootenanny?

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[–] Mongostein@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I don’t know much about Starmer. How likely is he to let this happen?

[–] Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 9 points 1 week ago

On second thought, how about we turn back to the EU

[–] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

What, in case Donnie is in ASDA and fancies licking some chlorine?

[–] ms_lane@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

He's been licking chlorine tabs since Covid.

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