[satnav]

I saw somebody on Twitter earlier claiming that Britain didn't need to worry about importing food from America because RFK was going to improve food standards in America. This is utter nonsense. My wife has been to America on a number of occasions to inspect food factories and each time she has been she has met with obstruction, lies and legal threats. Food producers are actively oppose any form of regulation or inspection and RFK will not change that anytime soon especially if government officials are being sacked right, left and centre.

[Youngian]

Its all fine claims healthy food expert Nick Ferrari

[Samanfur]

Isn't there a bit of a shadow hanging over Innsmouth?

[Abernathy]

Bit of chlorine washed chicken never harmed anyone eh? Not for the first time, Ferrari is entirely missing the point. Chicken washed with chlorine might be safe to eat, but the fact that it has had to be washed in chlorine to kill off the campylobacter bacillus and other dangerous bacteria is indicative of chickens raised under very poor welfare standards, and probably of inferior quality.

Colonel Sanders has a lot to answer for.

[Boiler]

Chicken washed with chlorine might be safe to eat, but the fact that it has had to be washed in chlorine to kill off the campylobacter bacillus and other dangerous bacteria is indicative of chickens raised under very poor welfare standards, and probably of inferior quality.

Indeed; have a read of https://www.soilassociation.org/causes- ... d-chicken/

This covers the whole argument, and the counter-claim of "but the EU washes salad leaves in chlorine..."

See also: https://www.soilassociation.org/causes- ... rade-deal/

Pretty alarming reading.

[soulboy]

Isn't there a bit of a shadow hanging over Innsmouth?

Trump and his fellow travellers probably think, if they've ever read a book, that Lovecraft was a sound fellow.

[The Weeping Angel]

[Youngian]

Chicken washed with chlorine might be safe to eat, but the fact that it has had to be washed in chlorine to kill off the campylobacter bacillus and other dangerous bacteria is indicative of chickens raised under very poor welfare standards, and probably of inferior quality.

Indeed; have a read of https://www.soilassociation.org/causes- ... d-chicken/

This covers the whole argument, and the counter-claim of "but the EU washes salad leaves in chlorine..."

See also: https://www.soilassociation.org/causes- ... rade-deal/

Pretty alarming reading.

Perhaps Starmer sees the UK as a 21st non aligned state like Yugoslavia playing off the giant blocs against each other. That's not what a trade deal with Trump will bring but Belarus vassal status increasing its dependence on a power the RoW wants to escape from.
And that's the only reason Trump would want a deal. If it looked like UK imports to the US were about to increase so would tariff rates.

[Tubby Isaacs]

The trade deal with Trump was never going to be much. Sounds like it's going to be a memo of understanding.