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🐓☠️ A Race to the Bottom on Your Plate: Why Europe Rejects Chlorinated Chicken “Chlorinated chicken” means chicken that is washed with strong disinfectants near the end of the production line to kill bacteria after the bird has already been slaughtered. This method has been common in parts of the US system, but the EU has said no for decades and has stopped imports of chicken produced that way. Europe should not accept it because it represents the wrong approach to food safety. Instead of keeping farms, transport, and slaughter clean enough that the meat stays safe all the way through, the idea becomes: produce it fast and cheap, then “wash away” the problem at the end. When you allow that, you also encourage a system where high speed and low cost matter more than good hygiene earlier in the chain. The most important point is not “Will the chemicals harm me right now,” because the argument is bigger than that. The real question is what kind of food system we want to support. If we reward a model where contamination is expected and then fixed at the last second, we slowly lower standards across the board. And once you accept that logic for chicken, it becomes easier to accept it for other foods too.

Liz Webster, "We're here today to say no to chlorinated chicken and no to hormone fed beef" "It's not just farmers impacted by these disgusting American foods, it's you!" "Say no to Trump, say no to hi horrible trade deal, say no to his chlorinated chicken, and say no to his hormone fed beef" David Catt, "A Trump trade deal will be the most calamitous thing in history" "Why is their chicken chlorinated? Because the standard these chickens are kept in are so bad, they have to chlorine the chicken to make it edible"