Why Chlorinated Chicken

[calmck]

The US wants chlorinated chicken to be imported to the UK to enable a trade deal. Does the UK not breed enough chickens without the need to import any chickens from anywhere. Surely home bred chicken is fresher than any imported from anywhere

[AuntPollyGrey]

my tired brain says the OP is not about the price of chicken…….;-)

[ichkeria]

The question was a very fair one. But it ignores the realities of world trade, in particular free trade. Which is all about buying and selling stuff not necessarily on the basis of need but on the basis of (reasonable) self interest in ones own economy.
Some commodities have unique selling points: it may be that a country is the only or one of the few to make something. Or it might be recognised as having the best in the world of something.
With chicken I’d suggest that isn’t the case. No one thinks we need to buy chicken from the US (or any other specific country) not that it’s particularly great. It’s just that now the Americans see a chance to sell stuff to us they couldn’t before.
And vice versa

[EDDIE51]

Food poisoning from Chicken or any other food does NOT occur if the food is produced,stored and cooked correctly ! The USA does not follow EU hygene and safety rules on Poultry production ! So it wants to introduce Chlorination as a cheap way to get its poor quality mass produced chicken into our market ! It should be resisted !!!
Remember the 'Chinese Chicken Scandel' back in the 1970s ? For those too young to remember it was over China wanting to use Chlorination as a cheap way to get its surplus stoks of cheap poor quality chicken into the EU market place !

[bhg481]

If we allow them to send it to us but nobody buys it, they'll soon stop sending it. Where's the problem?

[AuntPollyGrey]

// So it wants to introduce Chlorination as a cheap way to get its poor quality mass produced chicken into our market ! It should be resisted !!! //

North America have been chlorinating their poultry for decades.

Most of the chicken produced in the EU is factory farmed.

More people per capita in the EU get salmonella from Chicken than in the USA

You would have to eat three chlorinated chickens a day to injest the same amount of chorine as in your daily drinking water.

[pastafreak]

Sorry APG...I got carried away.

[Spicerack]

Lol at the BA. Reckon you knew the kind of BS you wanted to hear before you asked the question.