actually the point I was making in the OP was that if the yanks get their way, their big massive multi million dollar food companies who don't give a fuck about food safety will be able to dictate to europe and therefore the uk what food they can supply to us, we stopped growth implants years ago yet the yanks continue and pretty soon that will be on our plates, now it's how chicken carcasses are treated what's next? now some of you on here may think it's a big joke but personally I'd rather know or at least have a rough idea what's in my food rather than rely on some large corporate business who only cares about profit, check out the feed lots in the usa that's how they raise their beef, feed full of anti biotics, as a country we should be self sufficient in food and not relying on other countries to be supplying up to 40% of our food, yes it's nice to have fancy fruit flown from the other side of the planet or strawberries at christmas etc but it's about time we took food supply a bit more seriously,