UK ‘will never change food standards’ in any trade deal with US, says government

https://www.scmp.com/news/world/europe/article/3306360/uk-will-never-change-food-standards-any-trade-deal-us-says-government?module=top_story&pgtype=homepage

by nohup_me

41 comments

  2. Food standars is really one of those things that **should not** be part of the tariff discussions, at all. We’re healthier in Europe than in the US much thanks to better and stronger food regulations. Please stay strong, UK!

  3. Its so amazing watching Donald Trump make everyone beg 😆 😂 🤣

    I’m excited to see Europe unite from across the pond. 🇨🇦

    I’m proud of our friendship, and I’m proud of European countries for working towards corporation and unity with each other instead of isolation.

  4. No country should be changing any food standards for the US. No one needs the drugs steroids and known carcinogenics in their food supply.

  6. Why the fuck does chlorinated chicken keep coming up with Trump? This happened the first term as well.

  7. I hope this remains the case unilaterally in any negotiations with the U.S. There are a lot of things where common ground can be found, but this is a single area that should never be up for discussions or concessions.

    If the U.S wants to export food to Europe, it’s needs to adjust the regulations to a level that provides food fit for human consumption.

  9. One doesn’t negotiate with an economic loan shark

  10. The UK wants a sanitary and phytosanitary deal with the EU. Effectively this means that the UK will adopt EU [minimum] standards on plant and animal health, which will eliminate the need for veterinary checks on food exports to the EU. It will be possible once again to export sausages, live oysters, etc, to the EU, and we could get back pet passports for travel between the UK and the EU. All of this means that lowering standards to US levels is impossible.

  11. Good, but this is a short term guarantee.

    Would you trust the leaders of all other parties to do the same? I wouldn’t. So at best “never” means “while this incarnation of the Labour Party are in power”.

    Brexit robbed us of a firm guarantee on food safety standards.

  12. US agribusiness products are disgusting, especially meat.

  13. As an American, good for them!!! Food safety will go even lower, as the number of inspectors under Trump have gone down, corporations can pollute at their will, and who knows what chemicals Americans will be ingesting.

  20. I think r/shitsamericansay will be flooded with posts

  21. A lot of food in America is just designed to make you reliant on Big Pharma later on in life. 

    You spend your youth getting hooked on crap that’s ultimately bad for you and you end up on meds forever.

    But oddly Kinder Eggs are banned because you might choke?!?

  23. I’m american, the food in the UK and EU is so much better. My fellow Americans, sadly, are typically so poorly traveled/incapable of travel and simply do not realize the glaringly obvious difference. The food health standards in the US are on (and have been on for a long time) a course to destroy the health of US citizens. It’s ridiculous that we pay taxes to a government actively trying to harm us and (who I consider to be our friends and neighbors) the citizens of foreign countries. My personal American apologies to the rest of the world.

  24. Same with Canada. We won’t buy milk from the US. Poor standards and safety inspection. Hormones and antibiotics.

    They dump it all together in storage so there is no traceability in case there is a problem.

  25. As a Canadian living in the UK I’m genuinely impressed with the ingredients listed of supermarket brand prepared foods. Most of the time there’s nothing included that I wouldn’t use if I was cooking the same thing from scratch. It would be a tragedy if these standards were ever relaxed for political reasons.

  26. They hire a guy that looks like it has every disease in the book to be the health secretary, lowering even more their food standards and expect us to eat their shit? Gtfo.

  27. Ok so why do we need to keep reiterating this point every other week then? Is it to reassure the public? Is it for the US to know we won’t budge? The fact it keeps getting brought up makes me feel like it absolutely is up for negotiation.

  28. Nor should they. US food ‘standards’ are utter crap. Europe needs to keep the door locked to that bullshit.

  29. Cannot imagine any major supermarket even wanting to stock American chlorinated chicken for starters…

  30. You shouldn’t food regulations in the US are bad, and getting worse, RFK more worried about an MMR vaccine that doesn’t cause autism than dunking chicken in chlorine, its backwards logic.

  31. Yeah that’s just not something you compromise on.

  32. The US is living in a dystopian nightmare and they want to take the whole world with them.

  33. South China Morning Post is CCP propaganda news site

  34. It’s why Canada has big tariffs on US dairy, to not flood our market with food that’s been tested less food safe 😅

  35. Lower your safety standards and buy our shit – ‘Murica

  36. Good standards should only ever get better, not reduced because the orange turd thinks it’s okay.

  37. UK has some if the very best produce on the planet. US is like shit Midas.

  39. Dear god, please don’t EVER stoop to American levels of LOW food quality. That’s why America is the leader for motorized scooters for fat fucks 🤣👏

  41. Good. I want my food to be vetted by Europe, and for Europeans to not die from listeria or anything else.

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