White House pushing Sir Keir Starmer to make concessions on food standards

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/40891725

White House pushing Sir Keir Starmer to make concessions on food standards

Donald Trump is demanding American chlorinated chicken be sold in British supermarkets.

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.

“He is seeking to use the tech partnership as leverage on trade deal concessions he still wants but that didn’t get the first round,” a source close to the negotiations told The Telegraph.

The US pulled the tech prosperity agreement over complaints Britain’s Online Safety Act would police American AI companies. Washington is using this complaint in order to secure fresh compromises in its trade deal with London, The Telegraph understands.

Insiders say the tech agreement collapsed in part because of the absence of an ambassador to Washington, a post which has remained vacant since Lord Mandelson was fired in September over his friendship with Jeffrey Epstein.

  • GreyEyedGhost@piefed.caEnglish
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    5 hours ago

    No one is saying the chlorine is unsafe. Do you think they don’t treat municipal water in the UK? They do. This is about chlorinating chicken as part of processing, and the reasons it isn’t needed in the UK and is in the US are in your own BBC article.

    And as far as I’m concerned, none of that matters. The UK has a set of standards you must meet to sell chicken there. If you want to sell your chicken, meet their standards. My country requires labeling in French for a variety of products. Same thing. If you want to sell those things here, get labels with French.

      • GreyEyedGhost@piefed.caEnglish
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        3 hours ago

        They say “it”. One could assume it refers to the chlorine, or one could assume it’s the banned product that is treated with chlorine. Which one someone decides they’re referring to probably has to do with how disingenuous that person is being, given the rest of the topic is about chlorinated chicken and not the process itself.