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Food standards ... what we need to know
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Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
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Billericay - Essex
Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit.
Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
Interesting article .... just glad I don't eat any meat or diary ... from any country.
Bee x
A single bee creates just one twelfth of a teaspoon of honey in her lifetime
Chlorine washing is designed to kill dangerous bacteria that exists in ALL chicken. Why do you think you must cook chicken fully, yet can eat other poultry medium cooked?
The EU allow lactic acid wash to achieve the same goal. Any complaints? Quick, sign a petition to leave the EU and don't trade with them!
https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/ALL/?uri=CELEX:32013R0101
As with everything, we live in a capitalist market society. If you don't want to eat a specific category of produce from any trade nation, don't buy it. If enough people don't buy it, the free market will ensure the product doesn't survive. That's why we're not all still wearing global hypercolour t-shirts from the 80s.
That's also why you can still buy battery hen eggs for example, because there's a market for them.
The EU allows genetically modified crops, and the UK imports them for foodstuffs, and all the noise about that from 10+ years ago has died away as people realize everything we eat, from cereal crops to livestock, has all been genetically modified by humans for millennia. But because "science" was involved to help the process along for the last couple of decades, here be dragons. Better sign that "no trade with EU" petition again, they allow GMO.
These petitions are fundamentally pointless and based on misinformation. I'm convinced that a fair number of them are orchestrated by the anti-brexit lot who want to find ways to tie the government in knots over trade deals, just so they can say "told you so".
Don't like it? Don't buy it. Capitalist markets are great like that.
I grow my own food because I like to know where my veg comes from but I am privileged because I have a garden and an income, I do not criticise others for their choices but it is necessary to draw a line sometimes to preserve certain standards.
This could go on for another n paragraphs but I will just say business is good, big business can be good but only if held to account by those who care.
I can't cope with chlorine in a swimming pool and certainly don't want it on my chicken.
Clearly, food production is big business but it needs to be ethical. I won't be biuying an electric car as long as there's child slave labour in the mines for the minerals for the batteries nor anything made in China as long as they are oppressing and suppressing people and ideas nor clothes made in Asian sweat shops.
I personally won't buy hormone-fed beef, but I support other people's right to choose it for themselves.
My issue is with the people setting up these petitions and using misleading, out of context info are trying to take that choice away from all of us for their own reasons.
I don't see any balanced, nuanced discussion comparing for example EU acid-washed beef...
Capitalist markets afford choice only to those who can afford it, those who cannot must survive as best they can. Animal welfare has come so far since I quizzed my first butcher I am reluctant to see it return to the 'old' ways rather I would like it to improve as it should in a civilised society.
Just as a matter of interest (and to correct misinformation) you implied @strelitzia32 in your original post that lactic acid washes are approved by the EU for domestic poultry, this is not the case.