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We (the uk) could have had a piece of this pie if it wasn't for racists
The UK would have been always a Trojan horse within the EU, better this way.
But.. Sovereignty.. Look at us standing on our own, in a club no one else wants to join.
Yeah, what a piece of shit pie to miss out on. Remainers are fucking delusional at this point.
We can have USA chicken instead, much better quality. /S
American organic chicken is just as good as EU organic chicken.
Edit. Perhaps Google OMRI?
Apologies if the sources aren't great or particularly up-to-date but it looks to me like organic farms account for just 9% of chicken farms in USA. Add to that the practice of chlorine washing, so I find it hard to see the benefits.
https://www.lilsipper.com/97-of-chicken-in-the-usa-is-bleached-here-are-the-brands-thats-not-not-bleaching-our-chicken/
No doubt the USDA is a hotbed of democrat demons intent on selling out the USA
https://www.nass.usda.gov/Publications/AgCensus/2022/Full_Report/Volume_1,_Chapter_1_US/st99_1_030_031.pdf
https://esmis.nal.usda.gov/sites/default/release-files/zg64tk92g/2z10z137s/bn99bh97r/cenorg22.pdf
EU chicken accounts for less than 5%...
They aren't chlorine washing organic birds, just the ones that are stocked too densely.
Do you have a source for the chlorine statement?
https://www.soilassociation.org/causes-campaigns/top-10-risks-from-a-uk-us-trade-deal/what-is-chlorinated-chicken/
What's your point here, that the US will suddenly convert all the chicken production to organic? Do they have enough organic chicken to export to us?
Or should we just stick with the higher quality we already expect.
Do you want to support UK consumers and farmers, or not?
The point is they have a range of bird quality, from worse than UK standards to equal.
It's just good to have multiple suppliers, keeps the price honest. We are a small island that needs to import food. Either we massively increase local production, which won't happen, we don't have the plains for the grain, and our rivers are already full of chicken shit, or we switch to different proteins
If only we had some sort of free trade agreement with people who have similar life styles, standards and ideas on democracy. Perhaps our close neighbours, like France, Holland, Germany, (Belgium, Italy at a push, Spain, Portugal, Poland) ...
It'd be even better if we had some sort of shared legislative body so that we could agree those standards.
We do, it's called the TCA.
EU regulations are driven by politics and the 25k lobbyists in Brussels.
ISO standards are international and designed for efficiency. I think it's better to follow those personally.
Please enlighten us, how has brexit been of any benefit to us?
Got us out of the environmental disaster that is the corrupt CAP. It takes the largest share of the budget and just rewards rich landowners to pollute
The EU has lowered green standards on farming since Brexit, while we've increased ours. That delta is the benefit.
Restored common law to primacy. Common law is more flexible and better for regulating innovation. Roman civil law is prescriptive and dull.
Erm...
https://ieep.uk/news/news-uk-falling-behind-eu-on-environmental-regulation-warns-new-ieepuk-report/
Looks like we arent keeping up woth EU standards.
And what new laws are there that we are benefitting from?
Seems fairly balanced
Nice blog post.
Meanwhile
https://www.pan-europe.info/press-releases/2025/12/eu-commission-retreats-worst-plan-still-opens-door-unlimited-pesticide
Are you suggesting that rechecking the data and risks of pesticides is wrong?
I'm suggesting that claiming you are reducing pesticides when all that's happened is the toxicity has increased is the worst kind of greenwashing
https://www.organicseurope.bio/news/ifoam-organics-europe-and-european-citizens-initiative-condemn-fake-pesticide-reduction/
Looks like the Harmonised Risk Indicator is relatively new https://food.ec.europa.eu/plants/pesticides/sustainable-use-pesticides/harmonised-risk-indicators_en?hl=en-GB
And has already come under criticism from the European Court of Auditors:
From the blog post you've linked:
So, for or against reviewing the data on pesticides (natural Vs synthetic for example)?
The wheels are turning, and progress is being made in the EU. How are the sunny uplands treating you?
The wheels are turning? Lol. Only if they get greased.
The UK is reforming it's entire agriculture policy, not tinkering around with bullshit metrics
Source: trust me bro
https://www.standrewslawreview.com/post/brexit-s-detrimental-impact-on-environmental-law-and-protection-in-the-uk
The point is we can make new laws that suit a small island farming industry, not the monoculture Bayer shite.
The EU actually weakened their rules, twice now. Your source talks about possible outcomes, not policy change.
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/climate-energy/eu-weaken-more-environment-reporting-rules-draft-document-shows-2025-12-08/
Did the big Boris make lots of promises and then fail to deliver whilst retiring on his nice state pension, book deals, and speaking opportunities.
If only a Tory govt had been given a chance to deliver all the benefits ...
Agriculture Act 2020
I don't give a shit about Boris, I'm more of a Tony Benn fan https://medium.com/@WhiteWednesday/tony-benn-on-democracy-and-the-eu-20th-november-1991-2f734f163ddf
Just not a fan of an inept undemocratic EU with fucked agriculture and fishing policies
I bet you won't be such a big fan when you get the right wing in charge of the EU
https://www.cla.org.uk/news/five-years-on-has-the-agriculture-act-delivered/
https://www.fwi.co.uk/news/eu-referendum/uk-government-has-lost-its-shepherd-for-agriculture
I know nothing of farming, but it doesn't sound like a ringing endorsement 5 years on.
Yeah, let's undo 50 years of moronic monoculture in 5 years.