We cannot ask British farmers to maintain high environmental and animal welfare standards while opening the door to imports produced under significantly weaker regulations👇 www.theguardian.com/environment/... - ThreadSky

linesmartin.bsky.social • 4 days ago

We cannot ask British farmers to maintain high environmental and animal welfare standards while opening the door to imports produced under significantly weaker regulations👇
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/apr/17/rural-communities-could-be-destroyed-if-uk-signs-us-trade-deal-says-former-food-tsar?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

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melonni.bsky.social•4 days ago

We have polluted rivers & a hugely damaged environment. So it's hardly working at the moment is it? Stop eating meat, stop polluting soils, stop denuding the upland, stop killing wildlife, stop farming animals in inhumane conditions.

daantjehug.bsky.social•3 days ago

It will be self- destruction anyway as UK consumers will avoid US products literally like the plague.

anamca.bsky.social•2 days ago

Not if he also achieves his aim to remove all content and origin labelling.

grow-in-place.bsky.social•3 days ago

Trust me, coming from the U.S., where farmers also live continuously on the brink, any commercial meat raised so cheaply that it undercuts your producers is not something you want to allow in or eat.

joseph-yossarian.bsky.social•3 days ago

I will become vegan. My wife has been for decades and she manages

pavsmith.bsky.social•4 days ago

or: align to EU standards.

this conversation wouldn't exist in an EU world.

kevanislay24.bsky.social•4 days ago

Don't they intensively, intensively farm pigs in Holland, Denmark and Poland?

pavsmith.bsky.social•4 days ago

no.

kevanislay24.bsky.social•3 days ago

Are you sure about that?

oxtale.bsky.social•3 days ago

Er they do. Pretty much all Danish pork is on slats whereas large numbers of our pigs are reared in straw yards. UK also banned production systems like pregnant sow stalls & veal calf crates long before EU, & uses least antibiotics on farms of all the EU countries with high agricultural output.

kevanislay24.bsky.social•3 days ago

Hmmm, thanks for shining a light on disinformation

hawksland.bsky.social•3 days ago

Starmer has said no reduction in environmental standards for UK but is happy for the electorate to eat low quality food

joseph-yossarian.bsky.social•3 days ago

The long, long road from Brexit. Britain alone now outside the EU forced into a humiliating deal with Trump.

All those Vote Leave posters in farmers fields up and down the land had consequences. Who knew?

biknmusicmama.bsky.social•3 days ago

We are about to end all federal food safety programs here, so don’t sign up to import salmonella

hampshirekarin.bsky.social•2 days ago

We need a government that works in the best interests of the British people and protects our food standards, nature and our environment, the NHS and other health services from being compromised by foreign companies who are only interested in extracting profit. Shame on Starmer, Reeves & co.

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