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noumenon@lemmy.world to World News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 19 hours ago

E.U. and South America to Form Free-Trade Zone With 700 Million People

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  • Corporal_Punishment@feddit.uk
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    17 hours ago

    We (the uk) could have had a piece of this pie if it wasn’t for racists

    • Frozentea725@feddit.uk
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      But… Sovereignty… Look at us standing on our own, in a club no one else wants to join.

    • deHaga@feddit.uk
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      Critics argued that South American producers did not meet European standards on pesticides, deforestation, animal treatment and worker rights. Farmers, particularly chicken and beef producers, have been worried that cheap imports would undercut their livelihoods.

      Yeah, what a piece of shit pie to miss out on. Remainers are fucking delusional at this point.

      • d00ery@lemmy.world
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        We can have USA chicken instead, much better quality. /S

        • deHaga@feddit.uk
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          American organic chicken is just as good as EU organic chicken.

          • d00ery@lemmy.world
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            Apologies if the sources aren’t great or particularly up-to-date but it looks to me like organic farms account for just 9% of chicken farms in USA. Add to that the practice of chlorine washing, so I find it hard to see the benefits.

            https://www.lilsipper.com/97-of-chicken-in-the-usa-is-bleached-here-are-the-brands-thats-not-not-bleaching-our-chicken/

            No doubt the USDA is a hotbed of democrat demons intent on selling out the USA

            https://www.nass.usda.gov/Publications/AgCensus/2022/Full_Report/Volume_1,_Chapter_1_US/st99_1_030_031.pdf

            https://esmis.nal.usda.gov/sites/default/release-files/zg64tk92g/2z10z137s/bn99bh97r/cenorg22.pdf

            • deHaga@feddit.uk
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              EU chicken accounts for less than 5%…

              They aren’t chlorine washing organic birds, just the ones that are stocked too densely.

      • Corporal_Punishment@feddit.uk
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        15 hours ago

        Please enlighten us, how has brexit been of any benefit to us?

        • deHaga@feddit.uk
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          Got us out of the environmental disaster that is the corrupt CAP. It takes the largest share of the budget and just rewards rich landowners to pollute

          The EU has lowered green standards on farming since Brexit, while we’ve increased ours. That delta is the benefit.

          Restored common law to primacy. Common law is more flexible and better for regulating innovation. Roman civil law is prescriptive and dull.

          • Corporal_Punishment@feddit.uk
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            13 hours ago

            Erm…

            https://ieep.uk/news/news-uk-falling-behind-eu-on-environmental-regulation-warns-new-ieepuk-report/

            Looks like we arent keeping up woth EU standards.

            And what new laws are there that we are benefitting from?

            • d00ery@lemmy.world
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              The report finds that while the UK has not significantly weakened its environmental standards since Brexit, it has failed to keep pace with the EU’s ambitious agenda. The divergence is largely passive – or “divergence by default” – as the EU moves ahead with new laws on issues ranging from air pollution and chemicals to nature restoration and circular economy.

              Seems fairly balanced

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              Nice blog post.

              Meanwhile

              https://www.pan-europe.info/press-releases/2025/12/eu-commission-retreats-worst-plan-still-opens-door-unlimited-pesticide

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                Following this backlash and intense internal negotiations, the Commission scaled back its approach in the proposal presented today. Targeted re-assessment would now be required for substances where uncertainties or data gaps have emerged from their risk assessment

                Are you suggesting that rechecking the data and risks of pesticides is wrong?

                • deHaga@feddit.uk
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                  I’m suggesting that claiming you are reducing pesticides when all that’s happened is the toxicity has increased is the worst kind of greenwashing

                  https://www.organicseurope.bio/news/ifoam-organics-europe-and-european-citizens-initiative-condemn-fake-pesticide-reduction/

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