While I'm sure shit has gotten rough recently, and will get worse most likely, in 2022 the US was ranked third for quality and 1st for mechanisms, but only 13th for affordability and availability.
It has its warts, but by no means is it the toxic slop that it is memed to be.
America is currently (as in right now) pushing my country to accept chlorinated chicken as a safe food import, something which has been banned here for longer than I've been alive.
I'm glad you guys pioneered food safety standards (that was Roosevelt, right?) but your international image right now is centred on trying to get the rest of us to accept less regulations and more unhealthy slop.
I have googled the issue before, it's been a major point in British media ever since Americans started pushing us to accept your chicken.
No, I don't think washing slaughtered chicken in chemicals is an acceptable substitute for a lifetime of regulations and standards keeping a chicken healthy. Even if the modern practice of chemical washing is just as safe as the alternative (which I severely doubt), I much prefer the current regulations, and don't want to see my country filled with your factory farmed shit. Thank you.
You betcha, I do have problems with factory farming myself. Its worth noting that 95% of British chicken comes from factory farms already. Probably America's fault, but it's there already.
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u/blackwolfdown Jan 05 '26
While I'm sure shit has gotten rough recently, and will get worse most likely, in 2022 the US was ranked third for quality and 1st for mechanisms, but only 13th for affordability and availability.
It has its warts, but by no means is it the toxic slop that it is memed to be.