Farming leaders have said it would be"insane" to sign a trade deal that allows the import of food that would be illegal to produce in the UK, such as chlorinated chicken.
"We must not tie the hands of British farmers to the highest rung of the standards ladder while waving through food imports which may not even reach the bottom rung."
Morally bankrupt maybe. Insane isn't the right word. We've voted for criminal negligence, wanton ignorance, national self-harm. This grand strategic vandalism.
If the choice is that or buying British, then it's your choice. What's the problem?
So I can't have USA chlorinated chicken but have no choice of halal chicken from most KFC branches , because we care how it's washed but not how it's killed ? unbelievablechickenstory
Ok so when I buy an EU chicken what's first thing I do ? Answer wash it with water from our taps what's UK water got in it ? Yep you guessed it chlorine , now tell me what's the difference?
When we leave at the end of the year, all products made by UK companies or manufactured in the UK should be clearly labelled & patriotic buying habits encouraged
Wait isn't that part of the Brexit thing being independent etc, so shouldn't we be buying from British farmers?
Choice ?
If consumers refuse to buy chlorinated chicken, then the imports will stop, as no business wants to lose money. Markets are driven by demand.
...and we have control of the alternative 😱
As opposed to using German chicken
The chickens are washed with chlorinated water. UK tap water is chlorinated water. Is our public water supply 'morally bankrupt' too?
Haha! Like it's thining the ranks of 330,000,000 Americans! Look at their waists too! 🤣
Give me a break from the anti US propaganda
He's not wrong
Why!
Mmmmmm, sounds delicious.
hiletroy6 Has everyone forgotten Gummer, BSE/vCJD?
RSPCA_official have a good article on this issue. It does concern me you can ‘clean’ the filth off meat with chlorine before eating it.. at home I don’t bleach food I dropped on the floor to make it edible again, so why accept it in food production?
Support British farmers buy British only!
We all eat it when we visit the US. Never had a problem.
You have a choice buy it or buy british
I’ll be buying direct from the small local farmshops in this case!!
Why would we buy chicken from abroad? Buy local.
hiletroy6 But battery farming is morally acceptable?
To be as we're facing a climate emergency we shouldn't even be considering important chicken from the usa
CHICKENS from USA,will have a label of country of production ,so customers can choose
Do You honestly think the Government will take any notice fof the NFU i it means a good trade del with the USA. They have lied before and will lie again.
People, chill out, if it arrives on these shores, just don't buy it.
Not for us!
You always have the choice of whether or not to buy it.
Brexit is insane, insanity isnt a concern to voters, unless people start listening to reason and not people telling them what they want to hear so they get power, who knows what's around the corner... 🤷♂️
‘...but gender changing drugs for kids are ok’👌
There always pasta
This is the meta-dioxin episode of Yes Minister.
Another 'benefit' of Brexit. There we are, blue passports make up for it if you are dull enough.
They can import it if they want - but I won't be buying American chicken. I don't buy chicken from anywhere but UK even now - if I see Brazil, EU, Thailand etc. on it, I don't buy it regardless of how cheap.
That’s great news... we can be morally bankrupt as well as bankrupt financially... 👍👍 fiscal responsibility 🤔🤔
Chlorine washing is more effective at disinfecting chicken than air/cold process is. The end product is still the same. The EU knows this so it is a basic protectionist mechanism. It is not at all to do with 'morality' and this is a move of desperation on behalf of NFU.
Robin_Hoodsband How about rather than foreign imports we produce our own humanel &healthy foods and not rely of poor quality imports?
Isn't all bagged salad already chlorinated here?
And so this is Brexit, what have we done !
NFU need to weed out our own bad practices . We are not perfect.
We chlorinate our chickens no proplem
But they are morally bankrupt.
Morally bankrupt? What does that mean 🤷🏼 let in free trade? Probably bad for UK chicken; competition. But the government must balance the deal not one area. If it’s not good for chicken the government is then duty bound to fund that industry while it transfers to something else
I ain't eating that shit
Still safer than any takeaway in U.K. 😂
So is halal slaughter
It’s all bollocks !!
'... the EU believes that relying on chlorine at the end of the meat production process could be a way of compensating for poor hygiene standards - such as dirty abattoirs.'
Is this about food safety or farming practices? Should the media explain the issues better? Does it still happen in the US? Vote now NFU20
It’s what the majority voted for.
I've eaten Chicken in the US pretty much on every day of every visit there. Seemed fine to me. And the 350 million people living there. Meh!
We import chicken from Vietnam and other products that have been washed in hydrogen peroxide. Let science decide and ensure clear labelling so that the customer can decide!
It will go well with the chlorinated salad we already consume.
Why do we need to import chickens from America?. Buy Britsh, buy better, incur less transport miles. Can't see why with local producers chicken should ever need to be transported more than 100 miles if not much less.
I don’t think it will be mandatory, it’s snowing again
I’m looking at these outraged responses and wonder how many of them realise we buy thousands of tons of Chicken from China every week. Do we trust them over the USA?
Just the same as everything else if you don't want it don't buy it, it's not rocket science
It's meat, if it's cheap we should import it, we can't moan about food banks and then deny a cheap source of food from those who need it because the EU doesn't like it. Our chicken are hardly living in the Ritz before we kill and de feather them.
As long as it had a big American flag on it,i wouldnt care cos I would rather eat my own shit than eat that crap!! (Lol..yeh,im laughing at my own tweet)
I think we can all agree that we don’t want it, even if it were available we just wouldn’t buy it! So why keep bringing it up!
THE👏TORIES👏DON’T👏CARE👏ABOUT👏YOU👏
Why would we have to import US chicken. NFU , get British chicken farmers to get their arse into gear then we wouldn’t buy US chickens. The US would only import chickens if there was a market for them. Stop whinging!!
We have chlorinated bagged salad in this country so why not chicken washed in chlorine... I would buy it
If we import US Chlorinated Chicken then its traceable non Chlorinated chicken or no chicken. No way am I buying US chicken.
Would the BBC even be reporting this if say Obama was president and not trump? Some how I doubt it
There will be riots
Prerequisite for a Tory MP isn't it? To be morally bankrupt. At least the bleached chicken will whiten my teeth.
There’s a chlorinated chicken in Downing Street already
Give people the choice. chlorinatedchicken
They like the chinese will have no animal welfare i bet.😡😡😡
So many ready meals are made with chicken from Thailand, wonder what their animal welfare is like there?
So when holiday in USA does anybody avoid chicken in case it's chlorinated
Err..don't buy the bloody things then...where is the issue exactly?
But it is already proven that we are insane ...so?
Halal meat ok BBC?
The bots are in force for this
No to these imports
Why?
Coming from a morally bankrupt government that's surely a mere formality.
Hilarious, coming from someone who supports the wholesale slaughter of badgers for no good reason. Chlorinated chicken is not a problem. Nobody is stupid enough to buy it.
Probably already eat chlorinated chicken from takeaways around U.K.
Why do we need more chicken?
So when you next visit North America, make sure you insist that the food they serve only comes to EU standards. Oh, wait. You've already been there and eaten the chicken. And your still alive! So it's basically more FakeNews
But Halal Meat is fine ? Funny old world
Allowing any form of animal import from so far away is morally bankrupt.
Don't talk such rot.
Well, the UK voted for the insanity!
Brexit side effects.
Why would anyone combine chlorine and chicken. The next thing we will be told is that there selling us bottled swimming pool water.
I dont think any one wants this so why are our representatives not representing us
At least you won’t have buy teeth whitener separately 🥴🥴🥴🥴🥴🥴🥴
Will only buy British. If everyone does this and support local it will help.!
Won't be buying it anyway.
Carnt be as bad as the EU selling us horse meat for decades.
True.
Chicken farmers talking about morality? GOOD ONE.
So much for looking after UK farmers
Why?
We don’t have to buy and eat it 👍🏻
I would never buy a chicken from any supermarket. Haven't you seen the state of the UK production and hygiene. Buy from your butchers or farm shop.
Don't buy it simply
More fear reporting from the BBC
chlorinatedChickenImports 🤮🤮🤮 🤢🤢🤢
For gods sake people!! Having chlorinated chicken is the only Brexit benefit I’ve heard stopbrexit
The Government keep on saying it won’t happen, but can anyone name ONE promise they have kept? What would tge supermarkets and food producers do if it were allowed? That’s the big question. And proper labelling?
Then maybe the NFU shouldn’t have advised it’s members to vote for Brexit should it?
UK and EU food standards are just better than the US. You've got to think twice about yourself if you're going to consider buying chlorinated chicken over chicken farmers actual raised and looked after under miles better health and safety regulations.
Shouldn’t we buying locally produce over imported? Isn’t that the reason for brexit?
Just say no. Regards from Brussels, wh e the French chickens can be traced back to the farm.
I'll be buying British come what may. Support our British growers and farmers.
Fowl play..
Support your local butcher and buy local 👍🏻
Glad I'm vegan
it seems everything hinges on chicken from the US when it comes to trade according to the lefty liberals . because the beloved EU never sold us horse meat dressed up as beef
Yes let’s just eat chlorinated lettuce
We still used chlorine in our water treatment
Brexit = moral & economic bankruptcy.
How would combine chicken and Chlorine. Remember they don’t bottle swimming pool water.
Well our kfc comes from there so what’s the problem 🤔🤔
Whatever!! Consumers choice is exactly that.aslong as all food is labelled accordingly who bloody cares.
But chlorinated salad is ok!
A lot of chicken in most takeaways is not British but from Thailand which I bet has got worse welfare and hygiene standards than the USA, yet most of the tits on here eat it.
IF CHLORINATED CHICKEN 1. IMPORTED 2. ADVERTISED 3. IN SHOPS/SUPERMARKETS, There will be mass demonstrations at any facility caught in possession. I ALMOST DIED of FOOD POISONING IN MICHIGAN, USA, & IT WAS CONCLUSIVELY PROVED IT WAS AS A RESULT OF EATING CHLORINATED CHICKEN!!!
They are ok with chlorinated water and salads though.
...but chlorination of bagged 🥗 is fine?! ...as Fagin nearly said ... 'You've got to chlorinate a chicken or two.'
let the northern tory scabs eat it.
Halal is very 'Moral' Ay ?
British produce support british farming
I really don’t understand this fear mongering
Why don't we just admit what the real issue is here, they don't want the chicken imported because of competition, it's not about it being 'chlorinated'. This hysteria-building is exactly what is wrong with the media and politics today.
Is chlorinatedchicken safer than non-chlorinated? Does it taste of chlorine, rather than chicken? Does the chicken counter smell like a chlorine gas attack? Will it kill us? Shouldn't we all be Vegan - and will chlorinated chicken make this more likely? Good news for the planet?
Animal welfare should be important and the end of life process she be pain free and comfortable as possible, I thought the uk were on top of this but other countries dictate first halal meat and now poor standard chickens. Animal welfare should always be first!!!
Nobody is going to be forced to buy it, things like Foie Gras produced in countries like France and Spain and imported to here, being far worse, that's what should be banned.
If these chickens get through, make sure they're labelled accordingly and if you don't want them, don't buy them! I know it's easy for me to say as I hunt and butcher livestock from where I live. On a side note, if anyone wants discounted tickets to Chester Zoo, I'm your man.
We breed millions of chickens in this country why would we need to import more
What about corn fro. Canada treated with glysolophate? That's ok? Yes is Monsanto owned by Bayer..... That is roundup...
Bit like chlorinated water ?
Why? We eat chlorinated salad everyday. Have done for years
Race to the bottom
Can’t see what all the fuss is about when I worked in a chip shop in the late 60’s we washed our potatoes and our fish in a chlorine solution every day and we didn’t have any reported deaths then
Does that go for the EU chlorinated salads and the horse meat contamination + bug ridden EU chickens. NFU talk the crap they sell?
People will stop buying chicken if they can't be certain of the source. Farmers should take advantage by selling locally to the public, frozen chicken cannot find its way to a farm when what is expected is fresh produce.
The dramatics in this country are so boring now then eat another chicken just like you can today choice people choice ffs
Have no problem with it.
Just don't buy it.
Let me enlighten the pillock at the NFU, by asking whats in tap water. Unlike this idiot I worked in the food industry for forty years and the carcass of chickens are regularly washed in chlorinated water. As for buying from the US I don't buy from the EU either dear.
Why? Is halal moral
They've eaten it in America for years also most people have been swimming so I'm guessing it will be safe to eat and what's the problem giving people option if its labelled properly
'But the EU believes that relying on a chlorine at the end of the meat production process could be a way of compensating for poor hygiene standards - such as dirty abattoirs.' I spy 'believes' and 'could' in there.
People don't have to eat it. All it's going to do is increase choice.
Meanwhile Poultry standards in German
and their point is? Considering have had a morally bankrupt government for at least 10 years now.
No deal was always the plan. That's what we'll get. Then we'll get this. Hey ho. Blue passports are nice though, right?
Why not? You already had mad cow before.
Horse meat through the EU though 🤭🤔
People actually eat that?
All those farmers who voted leave realising they are about to get royally screwed by Boris and Cummings.
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