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.
It’s going to pretty easy to tell ‘Product of USA’ just means contaminated/unsafe to eat food.
Shouldn’t buy US food even outside the current administration, they don’t grow or produce ANYTHING edible there.
It’s a huge and widely varying country with wildly different farming practices. I assure you there are more people growing and consuming real quality food in the US than there are people in your country. There is also a huge quantity of poisonous garbage grown and consumed as well.
Sorry, but I don’t believe that more than 70 million people in the US eat quality food on a regular basis. Too many people there are just scraping by, are in prison or are not educated enough to allow for that number.
Are you going to put that text next to the “chlorinated in USA” label?