What’s your point here, that the US will suddenly convert all the chicken production to organic? Do they have enough organic chicken to export to us?
Chlorine washing and routine use of antibiotics should not be seen as a way to compensate for cramped or dirty conditions on the farm or in the abattoir.
Or should we just stick with the higher quality we already expect.
Chlorinated chicken imports would also wrestle for market share with UK farmers and producers.
Do you want to support UK consumers and farmers, or not?
The point is they have a range of bird quality, from worse than UK standards to equal.
It’s just good to have multiple suppliers, keeps the price honest. We are a small island that needs to import food. Either we massively increase local production, which won’t happen, we don’t have the plains for the grain, and our rivers are already full of chicken shit, or we switch to different proteins
If only we had some sort of free trade agreement with people who have similar life styles, standards and ideas on democracy. Perhaps our close neighbours, like France, Holland, Germany, (Belgium, Italy at a push, Spain, Portugal, Poland) …
It’d be even better if we had some sort of shared legislative body so that we could agree those standards.
EU chicken accounts for less than 5%…
They aren’t chlorine washing organic birds, just the ones that are stocked too densely.
Do you have a source for the chlorine statement?
https://www.soilassociation.org/causes-campaigns/top-10-risks-from-a-uk-us-trade-deal/what-is-chlorinated-chicken/
What’s your point here, that the US will suddenly convert all the chicken production to organic? Do they have enough organic chicken to export to us?
Or should we just stick with the higher quality we already expect.
Do you want to support UK consumers and farmers, or not?
The point is they have a range of bird quality, from worse than UK standards to equal.
It’s just good to have multiple suppliers, keeps the price honest. We are a small island that needs to import food. Either we massively increase local production, which won’t happen, we don’t have the plains for the grain, and our rivers are already full of chicken shit, or we switch to different proteins
If only we had some sort of free trade agreement with people who have similar life styles, standards and ideas on democracy. Perhaps our close neighbours, like France, Holland, Germany, (Belgium, Italy at a push, Spain, Portugal, Poland) …
It’d be even better if we had some sort of shared legislative body so that we could agree those standards.
We do, it’s called the TCA.
EU regulations are driven by politics and the 25k lobbyists in Brussels.
ISO standards are international and designed for efficiency. I think it’s better to follow those personally.