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Originally Posted by TheDaddy
There's a Dispatches programme on Four OD called The Truth About Chlorinated Chicken that is highly enlightening, in part it goes into how they lobby government to turn a blind eye to the amount of deaths the US endure each year due to food poisoning due to hygiene, cross contamination and all round general wretched conditions, how they pay through the nose to avoid standards that would prevent the rediculously high number of amputations workers suffer due to insufficient training and being over worked and how if we let them in here how the only option our own producer's would have to compete with the price would be to lower our standards to a similar level and don't think the custoner would get the right to choose as thanks again to the lobbying any trade deal we agree will have in it that they don't have to lable it. Anyone who thinks this is as simple as dunking a chicken in a bucket of chlorine wash is very much mistaken.
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Exactly.
Whilst the preparation of chickens in a factory setting may be much the same (boiling then plucking if not free range). The before and after comparisons between the UK & the US are vast.