7mo ago

US to pressure UK to import high-quality American meat in Trump trade deal

www.theguardian.com

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isnt american meat riddled with parasites and antibiotics?
- Yes, yes it is.
- See what you need, is a good clean method of cooking the meat to resolve problems like parasites. Propane burns cleanly and you end up tasting the meat not the charcoal, I tell you whut.
- I've never even heard of a fellow American getting a parasite from meat.
I just cannot fathom it.
Was it really the brexiteers’ dream to give up access to the EU market (at the cost of EU goods being sold tariff free in the UK) only to get access to the US market, notoriously price driven and notoriously industrially farmed, at the cost of letting their shitty food into the UK?
Was that the ambition?! Is this what the brexiteers wanted?
Because this sure as shit makes zero sense to me. Even if I had been a brexiteer the old deal sounds markedly better.
- You are clearly overestimating Brexshiters ability to analyse facts.
- Yes, that's exactly what the people actually behind the Brexit rhetoric wanted. You know, ruthless capitalist scum.
  
  But even if you took a capitalist angle towards it and said “I want to maximise profits” why not stay next to half a billion people whose markets you can access?
- There was no plan, just a nationalist agenda that didn't like the EU. They didn't think about post Brexit at all, other than to come up with some good sounding fantasies for the campaign.
  
  But the people who voted for it must have had some kind of idea of what it is that they wanted?
Surely they'd need to produce some first, no?
Oh fuck you. Keep your hormones/antibiotics loaded shit to yourself.
I'm American. I don't want you all to be forced to accept our Ractopamine meat. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ractopamine
Just know that a lot of the stuff is because of politicians, not the common people here.
What’s in this trade deal for us?
If the government removes the requirement to label food products with country of origin, you'll know what's coming next.
Uncle Sam's catamite is about to grow a backbone?
Ah, I see this was the grand plan to make the UK vegan! Just make it so that we only have "high quality" meat that wouldn't even meet our safety standards.

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