I for one have no problem with chlorine-washed chicken.

I've eaten chicken in the states. It tastes much the same as chicken here - i.e. of not very much. What's the big deal with washing it with chlorine (and the significant reduction in salmonella infection that offers)?

People do get irate about the oddest things. We'll doubtless have the (entirely un-scientific) furore about GM foods next. :rolleyes:

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Originally Posted by Burney

I've eaten chicken in the states. It tastes much the same as chicken here - i.e. of not very much. What's the big deal with washing it with chlorine (and the significant reduction in salmonella infection that offers)?

People do get irate about the oddest things. We'll doubtless have the (entirely un-scientific) furore about GM foods next. :rolleyes:

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I think I've been silenced Berni.
I am lost for words for the stuff I read on a daily basis.

it's a very sad and boring world we live in.

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I've eaten chicken in the states. It tastes much the same as chicken here - i.e. of not very much. What's the big deal with washing it with chlorine (and the significant reduction in salmonella infection that offers)?

People do get irate about the oddest things. We'll doubtless have the (entirely un-scientific) furore about GM foods next. :rolleyes:

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As far as I'm aware, it's not the wqshing in chlorine that is the concern, it is how the animals are treated while alive which means they have to be washed in chlorine

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I've eaten chicken in the states. It tastes much the same as chicken here - i.e. of not very much. What's the big deal with washing it with chlorine (and the significant reduction in salmonella infection that offers)?

People do get irate about the oddest things. We'll doubtless have the (entirely un-scientific) furore about GM foods next. :rolleyes:

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Don't we drink chlorine in our water? And have a gulp of it when we get in a swimming pool?

Anyway, one imagines that millions of septics eat such chicken, and it's hardly turned them into a nation of drooling spastics, has it?

Oh.

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As far as I'm aware, it's not the wqshing in chlorine that is the concern, it is how the animals are treated while alive which means they have to be washed in chlorine

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Do you imagine our domestic welfare standards are any better? After all, there's a reason why we have a higher risk of getting salmonella from eating our non-chlorinated chickens.

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What's the big deal with washing it with chlorine (and the significant reduction in salmonella infection that offers)?

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apparently, food handlers will get blasé about other elements of food safety if the chicken has been chlorine washed.

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As far as I'm aware, it's not the wqshing in chlorine that is the concern, it is how the animals are treated while alive which means they have to be washed in chlorine

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the washing is done after evisceration.

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apparently, food handlers will get blasé about other elements of food safety if the chicken has been chlorine washed.

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Eh? Isn't that a bit like saying safety catches will make people more blasé about handling guns? Or that having parachutes will make pilots less careful?

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Eh? Isn't that a bit like saying safety catches will make people more blasé about handling guns? Or that having parachutes will make pilots less careful?

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Bit of a 'homework excuse' isn't it?

Not sure there really is an issue with it at all.

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Eh? Isn't that a bit like saying safety catches will make people more blasé about handling guns? Or that having parachutes will make pilots less careful?

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:hehe: Of course the RFC's refusal to issue parachutes in WWl was based on the belief that pilots would too easily abandon their aircraft...

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:hehe: Of course the RFC's refusal to issue parachutes in WWl was based on the belief that pilots would too easily abandon their aircraft...

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Oh, yes. Well that was a question of moral fibre, of course. Quite right. Can't have chaps jumping out just because they're a little bit on fire, can you?

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Do you imagine our domestic welfare standards are any better? After all, there's a reason why we have a higher risk of getting salmonella from eating our non-chlorinated chickens.

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Allegedly our ar e a lot better.. or so they implied on the news last night

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I've eaten chicken in the states. It tastes much the same as chicken here - i.e. of not very much. What's the big deal with washing it with chlorine (and the significant reduction in salmonella infection that offers)?

People do get irate about the oddest things. We'll doubtless have the (entirely un-scientific) furore about GM foods next. :rolleyes:

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Out of interest, would you say chicken has more or less flavor then a white fish such as turbot or John Dory which, as you know, are quite expensive and highly valued by chefs around Europe.

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Out of interest, would you say chicken has more or less flavor then a white fish such as turbot or John Dory which, as you know, are quite expensive and highly valued by chefs around Europe.

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Chicken is inherently bland, while turbot is delicately flavoured. Also, chicken has a far less toothsome texture.

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Chicken is inherently bland, while turbot is delicately flavoured. Also, chicken has a far less toothsome texture.

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Brown chicken stock is a wonderful base for many sauces and is gloriously flavoured, of chicken. Turbot, whilst my favourite fish, is just fish. It tastes like mild fish, that's it.

I like fish but white fish is effectively just a transport for whatever sauce you put with it. Chicken, when cooked properly and served with an appropriate sauce, can be quite delicious.