IIRC it's not just hormones it's bleached because we consider chicken with salmonella to still be fit for consumption. Our farming processes are so bad that we have to bleach the chicken to attempt to mitigate the hearth hazard.
It's honestly embarrassing. Every time I hear about an ecoli outbreak on leafy greens, I'm bewildered on how hard it is for our farmers to keep cow shit out of their crops.
It’s not just cows.
Soiling greens is people?
I see what you did there 😁
And yes, some countries use human faeces as a fertiliser. Not sure if that's the case in the UK though... I doubt it, the literal and figurative shit storm that would create... 😬
The USDA has banned hormones and steroids since the 50s and like 5% of chicken gets the (perfectly safe) chlorine rinse. European countries use the same rinse on leafy vegetables, they just banned it on poultry because they thought it would make processors complacent.
This was the promise of Brexit - no more of those pesky, overbearing EU safety regulations in exchange for trading deals with the devil for bad products that don't come CLOSE to replacing what was lost.
That's it: a license for greedy manufacturers and farmers to sell us dangerous shite that used to be banned.
Someone tell Upton Sinclair!
Welcome to the jungle, baby. You're gonna die!
Yeah not going to be buying that shit, no thank you
They will obscure its origin then.
America has been trying to get us to legalise their shitty chicken for years, fuck right off. We produce our own locally to a much higher standard.
I'll buy your Good & Plenty though, my gawd that tastes goooood
Are you my Grandpa? The only one I know who eats Good & Plenty
I'm not advocating for American chlorinated chicken, but I'm not sure our chicken is to a much higher standard. Over the last few years I've noticed a decline in the quality of our chicken from white striping to woody breast. I guess this is caused by them using breeds that grow quickly.
And now the UK left the EU, they have way less bargaining power.
Only a small portion of US chicken gets the chlorine rinse, a practice that the EU recognized as perfectly safe by the way. They banned it because they didn't want poultry processors to get lazy about other hygiene practices. They don't import American chicken because the cost difference would destroy the local farms.
Chicken in Europe tastes so much better than in the USA
Life in Europe tastes better than in the USA.
See also: Bleached flour
I heard that in the US they even bleach their assholes.
Nah. Just spray tan them.
TIL we chlorinate our chicken in Australia too
TIL that too 🤯
I don’t know much about Starmer. How likely is he to let this happen?
He's very weak.
He folds quicker than Superman on laundry day.
Starner was tragically born without a spine.
Mandatory Freedom Marinade chickens
What, in case Donnie is in ASDA and fancies licking some chlorine?
He's been licking chlorine tabs since Covid.
They can stock it all they want, doesn't mean it's going to get bought.
I don't think the Trump admin knows anyone who isn't associated with Epstein, so they can't really fill the vacancy
I demand my butthole be tounged repeatedly.
They also demand that from Switzerland, so we "only" get 14% tax instead of 30+. Despite them being hurt by it too, especially with gold trade.
And we should allow Teslas, despite them not meeting safety requirements. Is what our company bosses agreed to, without asking the parliament.
If you want cheap chickens and eggs for billions of humans, factory farming is a necessity. If you factory farm, there has to be a safe level of salmonella allowed, or nuke the whole facility over any infection. Also, if you factory farm, there will be wild price swings in chicken and eggs as factories are nuked for bird flu infections.
But we have choices!
a) Cook your fucking chicken and eggs.
b) Don't eat chicken or eggs.
c) Grow your own.
And for my British friends:
d) Boycott American chicken.
Eat my gross chicken or we can't be friends is peak US GOP behavior.
The dying US empire is sucking it's allies dry
It's alienating its allies so they cease to be allies
America only needs Israel and no one else ❤️❤️❤️
Lads, do you remember the Boston Tea Party? It's payback time!
London Tender Dinner?
Devonshire Disinfectant Dinner?
Birmingham Bleach Banquet?
Hampshire Hormone Hootenanny?
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