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Business Insider calls this an 'exclusive' but I wrote about it for @theipaper in June: https://inews.co.uk/inews-lifestyle/brexit-us-trade-deal-chlorinated-chicken-waitrose-tesco-sainsburys-aldi-lidl-456750
Just added quotes from M&S and Co-op, which are much less significant than Tesco, Sainso, Waitrose, Aldi, etc. Sigh.
Just added quotes from M&S and Co-op, which are much less significant than Tesco, Sainso, Waitrose, Aldi, etc. Sigh.
Also seems to suggest Aldi has been ahead of the game in all this but it hasn't. Only confirmed (to me) it wouldn't stock any chlorine chicken and hormone beef on July 7. Before it had only said its 'core range' would be free of US meat. https://inews.co.uk/inews-lifestyle/food-and-drink/aldi-commit-avoid-us-meat-british-farmers-497954
Also while all of this is important, it's worth noting that US meat, if allowed in (it probably will be) will end up in state schools and hospitals, low-cost catering firms and takeaway sandwiches at petrol stations, etc.
Supermarkets saying no is simply important because it serves to highlight the fact US meat is lower in quality, both in food value terms and in how it is produced. Animal welfare standards are too high in the UK.
British consumers tend to want to buy British produce. Can't imagine most will knowingly want to buy US meat. It'll creep in, probably, in drunk chicken wraps and frozen nuggets at corner shops.
Asda, the parent organisation of which is the US corporation Walmart, is the only supermarket not to make a no US meat pledge to date btw.
