A simple question i think? the uks available land to produce food shrinks every year, development by building, housing, roads etc eats up between 12-30 thousand acres a year, official figures, then you have this new word, rewilding, turning productive land, much is arable that was hard won from the sea, that had grown high hielding crops now flooded to become nature reserves? ive got it here in essex ? meanwhile the population increases by just over half a million, official figures but proberly closer to a million ? so in a short time what happens ?
UK FOOD PRODUCTION?
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Hilly
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Isn’t their more risk with the un chlorinated chicken ?
Hilly
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99% of you consume chlorine daily so why you all make a fuss over chlorinated chicken ?
It's not that it is chlorinated, its why it needs chlorinating in the first place. 1 in 7 Americans report having food poisoning in a year, in the UK it's 1 in 30. Their food production standards are so much lower than our own.
Hilly
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So if it’s chlorinated it should be ok then ?
Hilly
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Where dose the chicken many eat in the uk come from now ?
Not for the chicken. It's just another step in the race to the bottom. Maybe you're right, and we shouldn't give a fvck about the environment or the ethics about how the meat we consume was raised and slaughtered. Maybe angel dust isn't as bad as we are led to believe; just as long as it's "finger licken' good!", and cheap.
Hilly
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Hilly
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The cheap stuff probably comes from Thailand, where the chicken pens are literally above the fish farms, second bite of the cherry so to speak.
But just because the corporations want to feed their unsuspecting smiling clients the cheapest sh!t they can get away with doesn't mean it's right to kick away the better more ethical and environmentally friendly end of production.
Cowabunga
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Obviously not, or all those Americans wouldn't get food poisoning. After all, their chicken is chlorinated. Is there any part of that you don't understand?
Hilly
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isn’t? Is the Thailand chicken washed in chlorine ?
Whatever. You carry on playing Devils advocate and stirring the sh!t, I'll leave you to it.
Hilly
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Are all the food poisoning cases related to chicken ? What’s wrong with chlorine I bet you drink it daily so what is wrong with chlorine what’s the difference between a thi chicken and a American chicken do the thi have higher standards than the Americans ? What difference dose it make to you or any of you ?
Hilly
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Cowabunga
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Its the concentration. Would you drink you milking parlour washing up solution? It obviously isn't effective on the American food because they get an amazingly higher proportion of people annually getting poisoned than we do in Europe.
The same goes for their eggs. American eggs are universally stored in refrigerators because if they are not, and even though they are, many people still get food poisoning from them. British and most European eggs do not need refrigeration and are now from salmonella vaccinated birds and therefore of very low risk indeed. American eggs on the other hand...
Hilly
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Mean while you all happily consume Chicken from Thailand with no chlorine ? And wash it down with chlorinated water . Can the Americans produce chicken cheaper than Thai’s .? Now that would surprise me .
Roger Perry
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What a load of crap.
You really should stop reading the Guardian, if anything its' a fair bet that standards in the U,S. are in access of UK welfare...............we have federal/state and local inspections............were did you guys come up with these untruths'