Farmers dischuffed with Boris !!!

Seems that scumbag Boris has managed to upset the farming community over his remarks about food standards and the possible US trade deal.

Boris Johnson faces angry backlash from farmers after dismissing post-Brexit food fears as ‘mumbo jumbo’
Prime minister told that allowing in ‘food which would be illegal to produce here would not only be morally bankrupt, it would be the work of the insane’

Britain’s farmers have taken a swipe at Boris Johnson, warning that slashing standards would be “the work of the insane”, after the prime minister attacked resistance to US food as “mumbo jumbo”.

The president of the National Farmers’ Union insisted that nothing is more important than what people will eat after Brexit. “This is not hysteria. This is not mumbo jumbo,” she said.


The comments are a direct response to the prime minister championing US food in a speech earlier this month, when he insisted “pretty well-nourished” Americans disproved “hysterical fears”.

And they come after George Eustice, the environment secretary, hinted that acid-washed chicken – if not chlorine-washed – would be allowed on sale in the UK after its departure from the EU.


“To sign up to a trade deal which results in opening our ports, shelves and fridges to food which would be illegal to produce here would not only be morally bankrupt, it would be the work of the insane,” said Minette Batters, the NFU president.


Speaking to members, she demanded a standards commission to oversee rules on food production after Brexit and for high standards to be guaranteed in law in the Agriculture Bill.


Ms Batters also warned that meat imports washed in “other chemicals” would be as unacceptable as chlorine – a clear reference to lactic acid, following Mr Eustice’s weekend hints.

“What is more important to our economy, our health and our environment than the very food that we eat,” she asked.

Ms Batters also appeared to question the honesty of ministers who have promised to protect standards in the UK, but left doubts about what will be allowed in trade deals.



“If you raise the bar at home but refuse to legislate in imports then I can only wonder, was the motive ever really about improving global standards in welfare or the environment at all,” she asked.
“This isn’t just about chlorinated chicken. This is about a wider principle.

“We must not tie the hands of British farmers to the highest rung of the standards ladder while waving through food imports which may not even reach the bottom rung.”


Meanwhile, Carolyn Fairbairn, the director-general of the Confederation of British Industry, attacked Mr Johnson for saying he would settle for “Australia-style” trading arrangements, without a formal deal. “We ought to do an awful lot better than that,” she said.

Ms Batters called the Australia-style option “catastrophic” and a “code” for a no-deal Brexit, adding that US officials “mouths dropped” when she brought it up.


On Sunday, Mr Eustice said the government had “no plans” to change the law on chlorinated chicken, but failed to give a categorical assurance.

He then said: “I’m not quite sure why the US would make such demands, because actually chlorine washes on chicken are a very outdated technology and it is not really used by the US anymore anyway.”

The environment secretary then argued that US farmers now used lactic acid washes instead of chlorine.

Responding to Ms Batters' comments, Mr Johnson's official spokesman said: "The UK has long been a world leader in food safety and animal welfare and we will continue to uphold our high food standards in all future trade deals."

 

"Meanwhile, Carolyn Fairbairn, the director-general of the Confederation of British Industry, attacked Mr Johnson for saying he would settle for “Australia-style” trading arrangements, without a formal deal. “We ought to do an awful lot better than that,” she said.

Ms Batters called the Australia-style option “catastrophic” and a “code” for a no-deal Brexit, adding that US officials “mouths dropped” when she brought it up."



What a load of garbage



Try and get as many nonsense scaremongering threads in as you can before december

 

VG

Hey you know what’s a load of garbage…well Brexit

But you promised you could give us all a rational reason why you think Brexit will be good for the UK and its people, but haven't

Why can’t you do that….oh yeah because Brexit is a load of garbage that why.

 

Ugh, the Independent, should have known

From one of the articles linked in that article

"The spokesman claimed that Australia's relations with the EU amounted to a "deal" because Canberra has 29 bilateral agreements with Brussels, but was unable to say whether failure on Mr Johnson's part to negotiate a comparable set of agreements would constitute no-deal"

So what Boris really means is if stuff works out cheaper anyway even with tariffs, who gives a fuck.

US food will be cheaper as it doesn't have as much bureaucratic costs attached to it. Chlorinated chicken? Put a sticker on it, simple.

Tories want a hard brexit, that should be obvious by now

 

Such comment proves beyond a shadow of doubt that your ignorance of such matters is obvious. By placing 'a sticker' on it, to hide what it actually is, would run counter to our advertising standards and counter to our food standards.

 

Placing a sticker on it would run counter to your food standards?

 

By hiding the fact that it was chlorinated - yes !!! - more evidence of your inability to read and comprehend plain language !!!

By placing 'a sticker' on it, to hide what it actually is, would run counter to our advertising standards and counter to our food standards.

 

So a sticker that says washed in chlorinated water would hide it's washed in chlorinated water?

I thought your whole society was supposed to collapse with brexit, and here we are talking about how chickens are washed

 

By the way your fruit and veg is washed in chlorinated water in the EU/UK

 

You are a prat VG honest !!!

 

It's your logic

 

What part of the word 'hide' do you not understand ???