Tommy Tainant
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US ambassador to UK under fire over defence of chlorinated chicken
The US ambassador to Britain, Woody Johnson, has come under fire from a leading food critic, a farming union and trade justice campaigners over his push to open up the UK to American farmers post-Brexit.
Jay Rayner, the BBC presenter, Observer columnist and MasterChef critic, said the UK should tell Johnson where he can stick chlorinated chicken, the US’s preferred approach for protecting consumers from pathogens such as salmonella and campylobacter.
Writing in the Telegraph on Friday, Johnson attacked warnings that a post-Brexit trade deal would result in chlorine-washed chicken and hormone-pumped beef arriving on supermarket shelves.
“You have been presented with a false choice,” he wrote. “Either stick to EU directives, or find yourselves flooded with American food of the lowest quality. Inflammatory and misleading terms like ‘chlorinated chicken’ and ‘hormone beef’ are deployed to cast American farming in the worst possible light.
Mmmmm. Sounds delicious. I am guessing that chlorine chicken is only for the poor folk. The better offs should be able to buy something that has been reared to decent standards.
Chlorine washed chicken, packed by workers wearing diapers , tomatoes made out of fish and all chock full of hormones. There is a big market for US food after brexit but it needs to be of an acceptable standard.
The US ambassador to Britain, Woody Johnson, has come under fire from a leading food critic, a farming union and trade justice campaigners over his push to open up the UK to American farmers post-Brexit.
Jay Rayner, the BBC presenter, Observer columnist and MasterChef critic, said the UK should tell Johnson where he can stick chlorinated chicken, the US’s preferred approach for protecting consumers from pathogens such as salmonella and campylobacter.
Writing in the Telegraph on Friday, Johnson attacked warnings that a post-Brexit trade deal would result in chlorine-washed chicken and hormone-pumped beef arriving on supermarket shelves.
“You have been presented with a false choice,” he wrote. “Either stick to EU directives, or find yourselves flooded with American food of the lowest quality. Inflammatory and misleading terms like ‘chlorinated chicken’ and ‘hormone beef’ are deployed to cast American farming in the worst possible light.
Mmmmm. Sounds delicious. I am guessing that chlorine chicken is only for the poor folk. The better offs should be able to buy something that has been reared to decent standards.
Chlorine washed chicken, packed by workers wearing diapers , tomatoes made out of fish and all chock full of hormones. There is a big market for US food after brexit but it needs to be of an acceptable standard.
