FRANKENCHICKENS

[super jumbe]

WARNING
Contains footage of animal cruelty that viewers may find disturbing.

Horror conditions of warehouses churning out US chickens means poultry ‘heading to UK’ has to be washed in chlorine.

https://www.thesun.co.uk/video/news/horror-conditions-of-warehouses-churning-out-us-chickens-means-poultry-heading-to-uk-has-to-be-washed-in-chlorine/

[super jumbe]

This must have been a WHISTLE blower from inside an American chicken farm has revealed the horror conditions the birds are kept in, first it was chlorine-rinsed chicken. Now the Americans want to get another culinary delicacy into UK supermarkets - hormone-pumped beef.
Hormonal beef and chlorine chicken could be coming to UK if trade deal with US goes ahead, Asda and Tesco the us markets.
No more meat for me this was the last thing in my mind!!!

[GastonJ]

Doesn't appear to be a problem for the UK government, desperate to make any deal possible as long as they get a deal, who cares what Joe Public eats.

[ifred]

Doesn't appear to be a problem for the UK government, desperate to make any deal possible as long as they get a deal, who cares what Joe Public eats.

What do you want chicken mccluck washed in bleach or on steroids and anti-biotics? lets be honest we've been eating crap for decades!
Isn't there chlorine and fluorine in tap water?
Or maybe you've eaten to much horse meat by now to kick the stable door down
Best to stick with a hamburger pure

[nara]

Liam Fox is so anxious to get some sort of trade deal to supply enough post-Brexit food to Britain that he's willing to let this crap in.

The fallout from that disastrous vote last June is going from bad to worse.

[super jumbe]

Totally agree with you nara but some thing just don’t add up a small country like UK hasn’t got the resources to provide meat and chicken for all our citizen what are the farmers up to when meat and chicken is available in all state of us and have got more for other countries, our govt should look into and not find the easy solution, now wonder more people are on dole….

[GastonJ]

It's one of those wonderful trade deals that the government were telling you about. Surely you don't think that the government would put the population at risk just to suit their own agenda do you?

[nara]

Surely you don't think that the government would put the population at risk just to suit their own agenda do you?

A government that doesn't give a flying f*ck about the population? No, never. Don't be silly.


At least it's some consolation to know that the idiots who voted for these toerags are going to suffer with the rest of us.

[jezabelly]

I'm no lover of American chicken but don't forget that nearly 70 percent of UK reared chicken sold in supermarkets is infected with antibiotic resistant E-coli.
Probably the US chicken has the same bacteria infection, hence the reason they chlorine wash the carcases.
The UK chicken industry has still a long way to go before I would handle our home reared raw chicken.

[nara]

Probably the US chicken has the same bacteria infection, hence the reason they chlorine wash the carcases.

They wash mainly to remove salmonella and campylobacter. The reason the EU doesn't allow chlorine washing is that it's a disincentive to using proper hygiene practice.

The UK chicken industry has still a long way to go before I would handle our home reared raw chicken.

Raise chickens at home then, or move to Japan which is one of the few places on earth where it's safe to handle shop bought chicken. The UK chicken industry is no different from most of the rest of the world.