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Originally Posted by nomadking
I said "On balance". Expats in Spain etc are a benefit to those countries, not the UK. They go there with money to spend, whereas others come here with nothing and spend OUR money. They are not all living on the streets, so where did all the houses they are living in, come from. Who didn't get a home because somebody from Romania turned up and was given one instead?
Are you saying that the compensation schemes that the EU has suddenly dreamed up, doesn't add to costs?
We now(if it happens) get to choose the food standards. The EU has insisted on setting the UK's food standards, but one example(that I can remember) from the past is an issue with French UHT milk. It was ruled that we have to accept a standard lower than we insisted from UK farmers.
There is no US trade deal in place.
Are "welfare standards and environmental protection standards" any better in Romania etc? Eg Horsemeat scandal.
So the EU admits it's own abattoirs were not "up to scratch" and that chlorine washes are BETTER than cold air and water. What matters is the safety of the end result.
How come in 2017 the US exported more than $3bn worth of chicken, and Brazil more than twice that. Not sure Brazil's standards are going to be that high.
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Yet again, you've failed to accept that EU migration to the UK provides a NET benefit. so your first paragraph is rubbish.
Sorry for the lapse on the US trade deal, was typing in multiple windows. Yes, of course no deal currently in place.
The EU's concern as you probably know regarding chlorine washing is that it allows or could be allowed for shortcuts to be taken in the slaughter process which are not as easily introduced via the cold air and water method. You're right, it's about the end result, so lets use the method that introduces least risk into the slaughter process. which is to still ban the use of chlorine washing.
Again, if you think for one second that a nation such as the UK (should Brexit occur) will have any considerable say in any of the major nation trade deals then you're in denial. We are going to be dictated too and we will have to accept what we're given in the vast majority of instances.
However, you were told that before, you didn't listen and there's evidence already of chickens coming home to roost.
BTW Brazil exports more chicken than the US because it's 5th biggest export (meat as a whole) US's meat exports don't even make the top ten.