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[–] LimpRimble 8 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Canada had (has?) a similar problem:

The breakdown in negotiations was mostly due to Canada’s insistence on the UK loosening its food safety regulations, according to several people familiar with the matter.

Canada’s agriculture and food processing market is geared toward exporting to the US, where practices such as chemical carcass-washing and hormone-injected beef and pork are commonplace. In the EU, and the UK by virtue of its former membership of the bloc, such practices are banned.
https://lemmy.ca/comment/8322100

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago

Do you think it is possible that Canada will increase its own food standards for the European market? Obviously over time. Such that the only people eating chlorine chicken are Americans?

[–] Sunshine 4 points 1 week ago

Don’t trust republicans for anything.