>PESTICIDES >Eighty-two pesticides are banned in the EU on health and environmental grounds – but not in the US. Among these 82 pesticides are permethrin, the broad spectrum insecticide that is classed as a likely carcinogen and suspected endocrine disruptor, and atrazine, a herbicide thought to affect the immune system, which has also been linked to birth defects.
A US-UK trade deal opens the door to imports of American foods grown using these pesticides. The US would probably also lean on the UK government to relax our EU-set “maximum residue levels” for pesticides in food. Even people who boycotted US imported food would probably end up eating more residues in food because British growers would no longer have to control their spraying regimes to keep residues within EU limits.
>GM FOOD >Derivatives of GM maize and soya are in thousands of processed foods in the US. American consumers’ demands to see them labelled have been quashed by lobbying from big biotech companies, notably Monsanto. In the US, the only way to avoid eating GM ingredients is to buy organic food to cook at home and never eat out.
In the EU, foods made using GM ingredients must be clearly labelled as such, and consumers have shown repeatedly that they don’t want to buy them. The only GM foods currently on British shelves are sweet imported American junk foods, and cheap cooking oils aimed at the catering trade. No GM crops are grown commercially in the UK. Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland have all effectively banned their cultivation. Currently, EU states have the right to ban the import of GM food. In the event of a US-UK trade deal, farmers on both sides of the Atlantic might argue that GM labelling, and cultivation and import bans, are discriminatory barriers to trade. No GM crops are grown commercially in the UK
>FOOD ADDITIVES >Processed foods in the United States typically contain many more additives and hi-tech ingredients than their equivalents in Europe. Several food additives banned in Europe are permitted in the US. These include petroleum-derived food colourings, azodicarbonamide, the chemical used to bleach flour that has been linked to asthma, and potassium bromate, a chemical that reduces the time needed to bake industrial bread. It has been associated with kidney, nervous system and gastrointestinal disorders.
British companies could argue that if they are to compete with US imports on price, they must be allowed to use these problematic additives.
>CHLORINE CHICKEN AND ACID-WASHED MEAT >In the US it’s perfectly legal to “wash” butchered chicken in strongly chlorinated water and to spray pig carcasses with lactic acid. Abattoir companies present these as belt-and-braces methods of reducing the spread of microbial contamination from the animal’s digestive tract to the meat. These practices aren’t allowed in the EU, and the dominant European view has been that, far from reducing contamination, they could increase it because dirty abattoirs with sloppy standards would rely on it as a decontaminant rather than making sure their basic hygiene protocols were up to scratch. There are also concerns that such “washes” would be used by less scrupulous meat processing plants to increase the shelf-life of meat, making it appear fresher than it really is.
If the UK were obliged to accept chlorine chicken and acid-washed meat from the US, this would not need to be flagged up on product packaging because these washes and sprays would count as “processing aids”, which don’t need to be labelled.
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Jonathan Hill
>HORMONE AND ANTIBIOTIC GROWTH PROMOTERS >The EU has a general ban on the use of synthetic hormones to promote growth in farm animals because the European Food Safety Authority says that there isn’t enough data to fully assess potential human health risks, such as increased cancer, and early puberty. In the US, synthetic hormones are considered safe, and intensively reared beef cattle and dairy cows are often implanted with them. Pigs are also treated with the beta-agonist drug Ractopamine, which has hormone-like bodybuilding effects. Globally, there is heightened awareness that the overuse of antibiotics in farming is encouraging the emergence of bacterial infections in animals and humans that are resistant to key groups of these vital drugs. The latest data shows that 75% of medically important antibiotics in the US were given to farm animals. In the UK, the equivalent amount is lower (40%), largely because EU farmers have not been allowed to use antibiotics to make their animals grow bigger more quickly – or produce more milk.
Once a UK-US trade deal was signed, US meat processors would be likely to see big opportunities to get their pork – and to a lesser extent, their beef – into the UK. These imports would probably be purchased by processed food manufacturers. And as their multi-ingredient products don’t have to list the country of origin of individual ingredients, there would be no sure way of avoiding eating milk or meat produced to less exacting US standards, unless you never ate processed food.
Joseph Evans
Britsharts soon.
Juan Price
F
Jack Collins
I don't get why Americans are ok with this to begin with.
>b-b-b-but corporations need to make money! They'll leave if they don't have muh freedoms
Adrian Evans
They have the potential to.
If it's an issue that concerns you then lobby the government, because that's actually a thing you can do now that it's not been ceded to the EU.
Henry Parker
Brits are cancerous
Adrian Wood
This. Their national "food" is almost burger level.
Connor Ramirez
>is a German hahaha anglo supremacy so salty. have fun with your communist caliphate shithole .
Justin Ramirez
>its another episode of faggots who learned that GMOs cause cancer and diabetes from herbalcuresmedicine.blogspot.com
I wish you people would just starve already, you're a bunch of fucking pussies
Isaiah Price
>implying you wouldn't scarf that down and ask for seconds Anorexic cuck go away
Nolan Rogers
When it comes to food, Americans prefer quantity over quality
Andrew Nelson
it's way worse than anything america's ever come up with
David Foster
That's actually quite a healthy breakfast. Plenty of protein and fat and not too many carbohydrates. It's carbohydrates that make you fat rather than fat itself ironically.
Nicholas Gray
>UK food >"Standards"
William Clark
How could they get any worse?
Nicholas Lopez
THEY'RE TURNING THE FROGS GAY
Brandon Scott
Are you sure about that. If you sit on your arse all day carbs are essentially turned into fat yes, but they are fundamental for garnering the necessary energy for daily activities and alertness. If you ratio'd carbs protein and fat for normal daily intake itd be about 50 30 20 respectively, no? As long as its complex carbs, and as long as its not saturated fat. The total calories from this ratio per day will determine if you lose or gain weight relative to your energy expenditure.
Parker Morris
>anglo supremacy >dies from cancer
David Moore
British food is shit yes, but for the most part the ingredients and meat we use is of high quality thanks to the EU, with this trade deal our food standards are in serious trouble of falling down.
Adam Morris
>That's actually quite a healthy breakfast
not for the pig that had to be slaughtered for that meal.
Chase Harris
I dunno m8 no need to get autistic over it
Ryder Powell
Seriously makes me feel like we fucked up voting out. I have a feeling we wont stand for a drop in quality though. Contrary to our stereotype of shit food, everything bar from poor working class shitholes is very good quality as far as ive experienced.
Isaiah Flores
united shartdom
Hunter Hill
In order to control something you must first understand it
Hunter Anderson
ur mum understands it
Owen Phillips
At least you didn't sell your clay in exchange for selling beef.
