Hi John,

Right now, Trump's trade team is piling pressure onto the UK government to rip up our environmental, hygiene and welfare standards, so we can buy chicken drenched in chlorine and beef pumped full of hormones from the US.

Chicken is washed in chlorine and other chemicals in the hope that it kills off salmonella. The reason they've got to wash it in chlorine is that the animals are so diseased as a result of awful US industrial farming practices. Not only is this type of farming terrible for animal welfare, but it doesn't always work! Chlorine just makes it harder to detect harmful bacteria. [1]

The UK government has to guarantee in law that all food imports will meet the same environmental, safety and animal welfare standards as food that is produced in the UK, so that harmful products like chlorinated chicken are banned in all future trade deals.

Can you quickly sign this petition to the Prime Minister?
 

Greenpeace UK's team of investigative journalists has been at the forefront of exposing the government's attempts to sacrifice the environment in pursuit of a trade deal with Trump's America. In 2019 we found out that Liz Truss' trade department was pushing to weaken food standards in an effort to get a deal with Trump. [2] And in 2018 we went undercover to show how an influential UK think-tank offered ministerial access to American agribusiness lobbyists. [3]

If that wasn't bad enough, last month we revealed how the US meat lobby is trying to get the UK to ditch its chlorinated chicken ban. [4] Last year we exposed the US lobbyists calling on Trump to target UK food and environment rules in any Brexit trade deal. [5]

We can't let this government serve up lower food and environmental standards to please Trump and big business in the US. Can you sign the petition urging the government to protect UK standards?
 

The government is coming under increasing pressure from business groups, environmental organisations and farmers to put their words into action. They have made lots of reassuring noises but are refusing to put anything into law.

We need a legally binding guarantee that the health of the UK public and our natural world will never be compromised by any trade deals. If we get enough people like you signing the petition, we can get Boris Johnson to realise that the British public won't put up with a race to the bottom for food and environmental standards.

Can you help pile on the pressure?
 

Thanks for everything you do,

Aakash

Greenpeace UK

[1] What is chlorinated chicken? Soil Association

[2] Leaked - Truss' department will push to weaken food standards for US trade deal, Unearthed

[3] Rightwing UK thinktank 'offered ministerial access' to potential US donors, Guardian

[4] Revealed: US meat lobby working to ditch chlorinated chicken ban in UK trade talks, Unearthed

[5] US agribusiness lobby calls on Trump to target UK food and environment rules in Brexit trade deal, Unearthed
 

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