Brexit: will you eat bad meat or vegetarian?

Blossoming

I’ve never eaten bad meat or a bad vegetarian.

I ate some rather sad looking carrots yesterday, waste not, want not. But they were sad and wrinkly rather than bad.

I agree with your posts michelleblane, M0nica and others.

Animal welfare is not an EU priority as was recently demonstrated when we heard about the 200 mink farms in Denmark, some of which had Covid.
And the EU voted against improving animal welfare not long ago:
www.greenpeace.org/eu-unit/issues/nature-food/1923/factory-farms-divide-eu-parliament

NanKate

Slightly off piste. If we hadn’t left the EU we would be still waiting for our vaccinations. My sister lives in Italy and she says the roll out has been desperately slow.

Not necessarily. The UK would have had a say in the EU's decisions on vaccines.

maddyone

The EU is neither everything that’s good nor everything that’s bad. But American food standards are poor in comparison to British. There’s the answer, buy British.

How do you know the origin of meat in restaurants or prepared pies, etc?

So what are eu residents going to eat when Brussels finally does a trade deal with the US.
Not that it's going to happen for a long time if their track record is anything to go by.

In the news last week, Polish meat (EU standards anybody?) caused a scandal.

Made me smile how easy it trades one way .... and not t’other?

More Brexit bullshit.

The EU is neither everything that’s good nor everything that’s bad. But American food standards are poor in comparison to British. There’s the answer, buy British.

Slightly off piste. If we hadn’t left the EU we would be still waiting for our vaccinations. My sister lives in Italy and she says the roll out has been desperately slow.

Hahaha!
What rubbish.
?
We’ve just bought today a pack of British lamb’s liver for tomorrow from Sainsbury’s.

I couldn’t believe the price....
98 pence ‼️
Seriously.
Enough to casserole for the two of us with onions & bacon.

90% of meat eaten in U.k. is from factory farms anyway, this idea that we have high standards would be out of the window if you saw inside an abattoir.

I’ll eat good meat-and I’ll wait till I have all the facts before I decide what is good meat and what isn’t. I am concerned about what I’ve heard about interaction with the US, but we already import food from there as well as from China.
Until Brexit, we followed EU rules. If they were good, is there a suggestion that we will abandon existing good practice just because we are not in the EU? Are we incapable of making good decisions about this ourselves?

Firstly I suggest you eat British meat which follows strict animal welfare guidlines. Secondly, within the EU there are countries which follow farming practises that would not be acceptable in the UK for example keeping sows in birthing crates and a very high percentage of eggs coming from birds kept in ('enriched') cages, i.e. never allowed to roam. If the OP is referring to chlorinated chicken from USA, I agree, I wouldn't want to eat it. I just wish to point out that EU regulations on food are not superior to those in UK

We lose the EU regulations on animal welfare and food handling, and in their place will be new ones. The Op has possibly been reading about the proposed trade agreement with the US, which could impose US food standards on exports to us (and from us to them)

Where is this information please?

I’ve never eaten bad meat or a bad vegetarian.

Where did you get that rather ‘out there’ news from Alexa?
Not that it would hurt for us all to eat less meat anyway.