Trump demands British supermarkets stock chlorinated chicken

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2025/12/17/trump-demands-british-supermarkets-chlorinated-chicken/

The White House is pushing Sir Keir Starmer to make concessions on food standards in order to revive a transatlantic tech partnership that drastically collapsed on Tuesday.

Jamieson Greer, the US trade envoy, wants Britain to accept hormone-treated chicken and beef, a term he was not able to achieve when the wider US-UK trade deal was first signed in May.

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Washedupcynic@lemmy.ca · 31 pts · 233d (2 replies)

LOL. Trump can throw all the tantrums he wants. He has no power in the UK. I hope the UK tells him to get bent.

samus12345@sh.itjust.works · 18 pts · 233d

Tenderizer@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 230d

I doubt Keir is the type to push back on anything really.

blimthepixie@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 19 pts · 233d

The whole of the UK demand  that Trump fucks off

CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de · 8 pts · 233d (1 reply)

I wonder - if the market was open, would the stores buy it? Would the customers? It smells weird. Looks weird.

Washedupcynic@lemmy.ca · 5 pts · 233d

Europe and UK tend to have much more stringent standards regarding food. I wish I lived in Europe for this very reason. There are so many additives in food sold in the US and it's making us all sick.

IndridCold@lemmy.ca · 7 pts · 233d

I can demand that Trump be blasted into the sun, but that isn't happening either.

nostrauxendar@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 233d

Why are world leaders even entertaining this fuckin guy?

It's also not a great sign that my faith in spineless Starmer is so low that I'm actually glad I haven't eaten chicken in weeks, and a little sceptical that I'll be buying any until all this has stopped.