Chlorine Chicken is the tip of the Iceberg Lettuce

Steve Boswell
Jul 25, 2017 · 2 min read

If you let the UK make a trade deal with the USA that includes Agriculture you will have to drop so many of the safeguards that makes British food so much better than American food. The quality of food here is terrible. I’m a foodie, and a cook. I am British and now live in the USA and I can tell you with authority that the quality of food in the EU and the UK is just orders of magnitude better than the food in America.

Any trade deal between UK & USA will have to have equitable food standards or one party is at an unfair advantage over the other. There is NO WAY the USA will be willing to raise its standards to match the EU, it’s a race to the bottom, not the top.

Lowering UK food standards so that American food producers can sell their food into the UK will exclude UK food from any EU agriculture trade deal as the UK food will no longer be safe enough for Europeans to eat.

Do not let America sell you Meat, Produce or Dairy. Anything ‘fresh’ or frozen here is a pale imitation of the food I was used to in the UK. Eggs, Milk, Cheese, Chicken and Minced Beef are especially bad. A lot of it is unsafe to eat unless cooked to temperatures that ruin it. Egg’s are from un vaccinated Chickens, salmonella is a real fear here. Chickens almost always have black bones from the bruising they receive during processing perimortem. Dried/ Packaged/ Canned food is all over-sugared (corn syruped), over salted and has far more chemicals than UK/EU food.

If you are an environmental sort… Consider the food miles on a chicken grown in the USA, shipped to China for processing, shipped back to the USA for distribution and then shipped to the UK for sale. It has to be frozen for all of that time, it’ll never be fresh.

If they can sell that to you for the same or less than you buy fresh chicken now, think about how much money they had to shave off the welfare of the animal, the wages of the people handling it and the safety standards thay had to lower to keep it profitable.

Steve Boswell

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British expat living in the USA with my beautiful American wife. Member of the 8-bit Generation, Tea drinker, cook, woodworker, biscuit eater and retrogamer.