Summary

Donald Trump warned the UK must accept chlorinated US chicken imports if it wants relief from new 10% tariffs on British exports.

The U.K. has long reaffirmed its commitment to maintaining high food standards, with polling showing 80% of Britons oppose a ch imports.

Critics argue chlorinated chicken stems from poorer production hygiene, with studies showing high bacteria rates in US chicken.

Farming advocates warn a US trade deal with lower standards would be “devastating for British farming.”

  • TransplantedSconie@lemm.ee
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    1 day ago

    Nah. Don’t do it. Call for a referendum to get back into the EU. I’m sure in these trying times they could speed run you guys back in.

    • Anarch157a@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      I don’t see it happening anytime soon. To rejoin, they woukd have to accept all the new rules, one of them is adopting the Euro as currency. I’m not sure the English voters would be willing to abandon the Pound. Scottish, Welsh an Irish, maybe.

      • BeardedGingerWonder@feddit.uk
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        3 hours ago

        There’s more to just losing the pound than cultural attachment (though that’s very real) it would also limit the UK’s ability to dictate their monetary policy. Mind you ~25% of the EU don’t use the Euro, not least of which is Denmark which has a similar opt out to what the UK used to have.

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        Perhaps after people start starving? Although the British are know for stoic acceptance of suffering…hmmm…maybe.

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          Can’t wait for my 1€ coins with Big Ben on it, and 2€ coins with beans on toast !

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      Not that I wouldn’t welcome UK back (under equal conditions to all new-joiners, of course), speed-running is not something EU is capable of. Nor is UK. They will not like having to accept the same deal everyone else has to when they had a lot of exceptions for everything. It will take ages before some kind of agreement is reached.

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        Not to mention, there’s at least one member state that will obstruct anything beneficial because the current dictator benefits from the chaos.