UK FOOD PRODUCTION?

Cowabunga

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Ceredigion,Wales
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 .
The concentration in mains water infinitesimal compared with recirculated disinfection water, which is at least as strong as dairy circulation cleaner. I'll ask again, would you eat chicken dipped in that?
 

PSQ

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Arable Farmer
I’m asking a genuine question that you bandwagon babes can’t answer coz your just headline reading / quoting jump on the band wagon idiots.

Ten past Five.

Is it not a bit early for you to be pis$$ed and making an arse of yourself on the internet ? 😘
 

Cowabunga

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Location
Ceredigion,Wales
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'
Your food poisoning incidence per capita speaks for itself. Whether you like it or not, that is the situation. While I wouldn't mind your hormone treated beef or your GM crops personally, you cannot ignore the facts that are embarrassing to you.
 

linga

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Location
Ceredigion
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.
But they eat more.!
Stands to reason doesnt it....eat more chicken and greater chance of getting a bad one !
Its the same with beer...usually after four I am fine but after ten I am usually sick as a dog...just more chance of getting a dodgy pint !
 

Hilly

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All frantically googling chlorinated chicken 🐓 so they can get one up on a funny name on the internet 😂. If a chicken from America washed in chlorine is all you have to fight over thank ya self lucky and don’t buy it buy the Thi bird she comes with a free cock .
 

Formatted

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Livestock Farmer
But they eat more.!

Are you suggesting they eat 4 times more?

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'

I am an avid reader of the Times. I'm sure you have absolutely no vested interest in convincing me I'm wrong.
 
Your food poisoning incidence per capita speaks for itself. Whether you like it or not, that is the situation. While I wouldn't mind your hormone treated beef or your GM crops personally, you cannot ignore the facts that are embarrassing to you.

I really know nothing about food poisoning so not fair to comment.
I do know that food..........all food I guess contains bacteria, so how it is stored/prepared is down to the consumer..........take responsibility for your own health.
 

Lowland1

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Mixed Farmer
The UK cannot nor ever will be able to produce enough food . So it needs to import food like it or not. i don’t think this is really about chlorinated chicken but rather the fact that the UK has too many people too little land and the perception that food from overseas is produced to much lower standards than it really is.
 

Wooly

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Mixed Farmer
Location
Romney Marsh
Going back to the original question that didn't mention chickens, farmers in the UK could easily produce far more food.

The trouble is at the moment people are not paying enough for it. There is no shortage in the shops and the green brigade are dictating margins around every field, rewilding, greening and wildlife areas.

I know our farm could easily produce another 1000 tonne of food every year if we could farm it for food production and not for the birds and the bees !!
 
I really know nothing about food poisoning so not fair to comment.
I do know that food..........all food I guess contains bacteria, so how it is stored/prepared is down to the consumer..........take responsibility for your own health.
We are trying too hense we would rather not have your chicken which regardless of the chlorine were/are raised in conditions no allowed in the Uk.
 

Hilly

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We are trying too hense we would rather not have your chicken which regardless of the chlorine were/are raised in conditions no allowed in the Uk.
Don’t stress you can choose not buy chlorinated chicken you won’t be force fed it unlike the chlorine in the water, so the chicken won’t affect you if you don’t buy it .
 

Highland Mule

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Livestock Farmer
Well, I guess Ford or General motors would rather not have your Land Rovers........... and General Electric or Pratt & Whitney would rather not have your Rolls Royce to compete with..............but a bit of competition is wonderful if you are a consumer.

Perhaps not so much benefit to the consumer for a 1972 Ford Pinto or a 2018 Boeing 737max8?

My understanding is that the issue is not that there’s chlorinated water washing of the meat, but that it needs to be washed with chlorinated water to compensate for the poor hygiene in processing. UK abattoirs don’t need to wash chickens before packaging, so why do US ones need to?
 

Purli R

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Going back to the original question that didn't mention chickens, farmers in the UK could easily produce far more food.

The trouble is at the moment people are not paying enough for it. There is no shortage in the shops and the green brigade are dictating margins around every field, rewilding, greening and wildlife areas.

I know our farm could easily produce another 1000 tonne of food every year if we could farm it for food production and not for the birds and the bees !!
At last a sensible post,thanks @ wooly this would apply to our farm,many others aswell I expect.
 

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