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Re:U.S. wants the EU to accept chemical-washed chicken as pa... by rokalakt on Tuesday January 28, 2020 @01:02PM (#22172109)
Who knows what's next. Cheaper Tesla vehicles, more US technology, less regulation around the EU, and so on. This whole "chemical-washed" paranoia is just propaganda from EU farmers, and EU protectionism. I for one welcome cheaper products, so at least people who barely afford food would at least have an option. Certainly if standards of living are so high around the EU no one would buy such products anyway, right?
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Re:U.S. wants the EU to accept chemical-washed chicken as pa... by throwaway41968 on Tuesday January 28, 2020 @03:47PM (#22173866)
But we don't want cheaper Tesla vehicles. We don't want mass surveillance tools that masquerade as US technology. We don't want poor people to eat chemical-soaked chicken. It may surprise you but not everyone gapes in awe at America as a model to follow around the globe.
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Re:U.S. wants the EU to accept chemical-washed chicken as pa... by toper-centage on Wednesday January 29, 2020 @08:13AM (#22180081)
We're discussing explicit direct, non-monetary, costs to these "cheaper products". There are no free lunches here.
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