I don't want to eat American meat

I always buy British meat and poultry and have vegetarian meals when I eat out . You don't know where the meat is from in restaurants unless it specifcally states it.

Havent eaten meat for many many years. Do not like the taste of beef, lamb is too greasy & pork upsets my stomach. So no problem for me to avoid anything from America.

Witzend
New Zealand lamb is 99% halal so that’s a no from me.

It's not just American meat you should worry about. ALL their fruit, veg, wine etc are contaminated with gmos. Have been boycotting all US products and companies for years. Now their businesses are rolling back on environmental protections, no way do we want any kind of deal with their 'AMERICA FIRST' mentality. Not to mention the NHS and drug prices, which will be at risk.

This topic came up during the Brexit campaign. My view was and still is that WE just won't allow the shopkeepers to buy/ stock,/advertise the low standard chlorine washed stuff. I cannot imagine Waitrose or Sainsbury wanting to try.
They would risk their reputations.
There would be a blockade of stores to stop trucks bringing it in.
I hope one of the reputable Consumer Campaigners gets stuck in soon. Before it becomes an issue.
[No I am busy with too many unpaid jobs as it is, it will have to be someone else to take this on.]

The point is that the US are demanding that there should be NO country of origin on meat labels - so you wouldn't know where it came from. They also want bulk importing and repacking in this country, so that it can be appear to be British.

If you can't tell where it came from, you can't avoid buying it. That would be a serious backward step for consumer knowledge and choice, bleach or no bleach!

ChrisCross
Surely if you don’t want to buy American meat then you really won’t have to ( I wouldn’t touch it with a barge pole) but then are you prepared to pay a premium for better meat? Most people are not. I get all my meat from The Dorset Meat company. If you want the old fashioned taste this is the place you with 100% ethical farming. I don’t think it’s any dearer than Waitrose but then it gives me piece of mind. Most people don’t care where it comes from or how the animal has been treated as long as it’s cheap.

ChrisCross, easy solution to this, either check the labels and buy british or New Zealand meat or better still go Veggie. Problem solved

What you may not know is that the "cheap" meat is what Americans mostly eat- The American grass fed is exported to countries with strict regulations

That’s interesting information, rosecarmel, thank you. It’s reassuring too, for us if not for yourself.

If consumers boycott this meat then suppliers will not keep stocking it (hopefully)?

I only buy British meat. Have been told to eat red meat because of anaemia.
I expect ready meals (which I never buy) use the cheapest. I did read that a leading supermarket used Thai chicken in their pies.
Why buy Danish or Dutch bacon when the fields around where I live are full of outdoor pigs?

Just look at the label on the meat or ask the butcher for the country of original. I always buy UK, Scottish bred and slaughtered, never Irish labelled. I learned that Irish can be imported from EU. Same with chicken, look at the label. I had a look at something I bought on a whim in a supermarket- label stated contained chicken produced in Thailand. I have seen lorry loads of chickens in that country but no idea if they are treated with drugs or chlorinated when washed. So imports from all over are already here!

It won't bother me as I haven't eaten meat for over fifty years but I do worry that this will be the cheap meat that poorer people will need to buy and it will be such poor quality, not to mention the animal welfare aspects.

All New Zealand lamb is halal. If you buy from the Co- op, all their meat and meat containing products are guaranteed British and non halal.

you can get organic grass fed meat, born and bred in the uk. Expensive of course, I buy it but don`t eat meat often and I often make it stretch with pulses and only have a small (healthier) amount at any one time. You pays your money and you takes your choice

I’m glad I’m vegan so won’t have the dilemma. I’ll carry on buying British fruit and veg or from countries who are mostly trustworthy but definitely not from USA ... nor China!

Luckily we have an excellent butcher not too far away. Also a very good Sainsbury's & Waitrose in our town.
The very idea of eating chickens washed in bleach etc. is repugnant.
I read the labels very carefully these days.
I was vegetarian for 15 years way back- stopped when married DH(2) as he is a real carnivore. If it comes to it I will go back to that & he can cook his own but I think we will be fine.

Meat in meat products such as pies doesn't have to be labelled with country of origin.

BTW on the subject of halal meat, I hope people realise that shechita meat (which is killed just as cruelly or even worse) finds its way into mainstream butchers without labelling. Slaughterhouses offload the rear end of carcases because they can't sell it as kosher.

Country of origin. Is that an EU regulation or a U.K. regulation or a supermarket requirement. Traceability is certainly required for Red Tractor labeling, imported food usually has country of origin. If it is an EU regulation it will get quietly dropped next year, we need to watch for that.

Any imported meat has to comply with disease control regulations, probably not welfare and certainly not environmental standards.

Dont buy it. I read the labels and only buy local meat. It's worth paying the extra. If we dont buy American meat the trade will not succeed.

Then don't eat it then. Buy British or become vegetarian....far healthier anyway.

That's probably true CarlyD7 - I can't see anyone in the cabinet eating it for instance - unless they are putting on a show like the BSE burgers.

I am eating less meat, if I can`t buy British, go without, or vegetarian meal

I don`t want to buy anything that is made here,, but very difficult to find so many things

what a mess this country is... certainly don`t want anything from China,,,

I certainly don't want to eat chicken a la chlorine or beef a la botulism! We had a perfectly good trade deal with the EU...

If people are scrimping week by week, on zero hours (or low pay) contracts, paying high private rents (no council houses available) then they will buy on price, so if American meat is cheaper, they will buy it. So, yet again, the burden for political failure falls on the poorest in society. They deserve better.