This was the promise of Brexit - no more of those pesky, overbearing EU safety regulations in exchange for trading deals with the devil for bad products that don't come CLOSE to replacing what was lost.
this post was submitted on 30 Dec 2025
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That's it: a license for greedy manufacturers and farmers to sell us dangerous shite that used to be banned.
IIRC it's not just hormones it's bleached because we consider chicken with salmonella to still be fit for consumption. Our farming processes are so bad that we have to bleach the chicken to attempt to mitigate the hearth hazard.
It's honestly embarrassing. Every time I hear about an ecoli outbreak on leafy greens, I'm bewildered on how hard it is for our farmers to keep cow shit out of their crops.
It’s not just cows.
Soiling greens is people?
I see what you did there 😁
And yes, some countries use human faeces as a fertiliser. Not sure if that's the case in the UK though... I doubt it, the literal and figurative shit storm that would create... 😬
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It’s human shit because we pay field workers by the amount they harvest and ensure that they are so poor and desperate that they would rather shit in the crop than lose out on a few cents of wages and walk a mile to the nearest bathroom, if one is even provided at all.
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America has been trying to get us to legalise their shitty chicken for years, fuck right off. We produce our own locally to a much higher standard.
I'll buy your Good & Plenty though, my gawd that tastes goooood
I'm not advocating for American chlorinated chicken, but I'm not sure our chicken is to a much higher standard. Over the last few years I've noticed a decline in the quality of our chicken from white striping to woody breast. I guess this is caused by them using breeds that grow quickly.
And now the UK left the EU, they have way less bargaining power.
Wait. No. That can’t be right.
We were supposed to be able to get much better deals when we could negotiate our own. /s
Honestly, I don’t understand how anyone fell for that line. How can a single country have more negotiating power than 28 countries including that single country?
Yeah, your pricing power is far greater when you're smaller, duh.
Perfect example: any individual negotiating with a giant multinational.
Are you my Grandpa? The only one I know who eats Good & Plenty
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Yeah not going to be buying that shit, no thank you
They will obscure its origin then.
Except that's not how it works in UK, you have to list the country of origin on the packaging and if that somehow gets repealed, you still have local suppliers who actually tell you from which farm items come from that you can verify yourself.
yes there are ways around alot of this, but they take time to implement and those of us who care will find a way to avoid. Which i fully intend to.
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Eat my gross chicken or we can't be friends is peak US GOP behavior.
I demand my butthole be tounged repeatedly.
They can stock it all they want, doesn't mean it's going to get bought.
They'll also pressure the UK to prevent it being labeled as chlorinated.
It's going to pretty easy to tell 'Product of USA' just means contaminated/unsafe to eat food.
Shouldn't buy US food even outside the current administration, they don't grow or produce ANYTHING edible there.
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Chicken in Europe tastes so much better than in the USA
Life in Europe tastes better than in the USA.
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Mandatory Freedom Marinade chickens
See also: Bleached flour
I heard that in the US they even bleach their assholes.
Nah. Just spray tan them.
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TIL we chlorinate our chicken in Australia too
TIL that too 🤯
They also demand that from Switzerland, so we "only" get 14% tax instead of 30+. Despite them being hurt by it too, especially with gold trade.
And we should allow Teslas, despite them not meeting safety requirements. Is what our company bosses agreed to, without asking the parliament.
If you want cheap chickens and eggs for billions of humans, factory farming is a necessity. If you factory farm, there has to be a safe level of salmonella allowed, or nuke the whole facility over any infection. Also, if you factory farm, there will be wild price swings in chicken and eggs as factories are nuked for bird flu infections.
But we have choices!
a) Cook your fucking chicken and eggs.
b) Don't eat chicken or eggs.
c) Grow your own.
And for my British friends:
d) Boycott American chicken.
I don’t know much about Starmer. How likely is he to let this happen?
He folds quicker than Superman on laundry day.
He's very weak.
Starner was tragically born without a spine.
Lads, do you remember the Boston Tea Party? It's payback time!
London Tender Dinner?
Devonshire Disinfectant Dinner?
Birmingham Bleach Banquet?
Hampshire Hormone Hootenanny?
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On second thought, how about we turn back to the EU
The Red Coats should tell MAGA to shove it where the sun does not shine. If the UK allows sub-standard meat into their market, be sure to educate the consumers about it.
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