The White House is pushing Sir Keir Starmer to make concessions on food standards in order to revive a transatlantic tech partnership that drastically collapsed on Tuesday.

Jamieson Greer, the US trade envoy, wants Britain to accept hormone-treated chicken and beef, a term he was not able to achieve when the wider US-UK trade deal was first signed in May.

  • CompactFlax
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    4 days ago

    I wonder - if the market was open, would the stores buy it? Would the customers? It smells weird. Looks weird.

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      4 days ago

      Europe and UK tend to have much more stringent standards regarding food. I wish I lived in Europe for this very reason. There are so many additives in food sold in the US and it’s making us all sick.