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SHORT THREAD: it is no surprise and yet still infuriating that the GB govt is clearly now entertaining allowing chlorine washed chicken on to our shelves. To be clear, the issue here is not the chlorine. The problem is why it's used. 1/
independent.co.uk/news/uk/politi…
Raising chickens in large flocks is a dirty business, however it's done. There are two ways to deal with risk. Either, as happens in the UK, there are limits on flock sizes and higher welfare to reduce infection from the start. 2/
Or you go the US route: pack em in, let infection run riot and then wash them in chlorine baths at the end. The problem is, there's strong evidence that chlorine washing doesn't kill pathogens; it just makes them non-culture-able. See this story. 3/ theguardian.com/world/2018/may…
I could now make a thing out of the fact that @michaelgove said chlorine-washed chicken would not be allowed, but pointing out that Gove is duplicitous, untrustworthy and unreliable is like pointing out the Pope is somewhat pious. Still,here's the story 4/ bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-pol…
One last thing. In 2016, when he was in the political wilderness @michaelgove and I got into a row on Twitter. You can refresh your memories here. huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/michael-…
These two tweets struck me most: he attempted to goad me for not committing myself to 'public service' as he had. @michaelgove as a model for public service. Ok. If you count allowing more people to die in a pandemic than almost any other country as a public service. ENDS/
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