Is there the ability and the will to change EU law?

At this stage I would strongly consider a rethink of our future relationship with the EU. In its current form, it is benefiting globalists rather than normal citizens, more and more control is being conceded to Brussels and its having an impact on how Irish people live. The over reach is massive and shows no signs of abating.

If your main example of "inconvenience" is the ban on "chlorinated chicken", there is nothing stopping American Chicken producers from air-chilling the chicken to get it into the european market.

Why do you assume every instance of higher food safety standard in the EU is a pretext for a trade barrier. Some American producers are actually moving away from chlorination.

Next you will be asking the EU to allow hormones in beef…

You fundamentally misunderstand why chlorinated chicken is banned.

Because they are hypocrites who for example bring out environmental directives that impinge on Irish farmers, while at the same time doing trade deals with South American to import cheap and sub standard beef.

Or stop us burning peat, but allow us to import wood pellets from Brazil. The whole thing has turned into making money for the elites.

There's an article about the mercosur deal with Ciaran Mullooly.

https://www.agriland.ie/farming-news/no-to-mercosur-campaign-to-distribute-20000-leaflets-in-ireland-and-europe-mep/

And an article about the pellets.

https://www.rte.ie/news/regional/2024/1223/1487966-bord-na-mona/

But back to the op question. With the small number of mep that Ireland elects, it is very hard ti change or influence decisions that are made in Europe.

The chlorinated chicken thing would amount to impacting any nation exporting chlorinated chicken so isn't unfairly targeting the US or anything. Simple fact is European food quality is far superior to the US so deregulation to allow US food stuffs would likely negatively impact health in general. So there's far more in terms of drawbacks in terms of allowing its sale.

The US (if if wanted) could also join the non chlorinated chicken world if it wanted to…

Bring back Kermit, all is forgiven.

Since you mentioned chlorinated chicken lets dive into that to see why its a completely necessary and reasonable position for the EU to take. Like others have pointed out its not the chlorine that is the problem its the reasons they have to chlorine wash their chicken that the EU has issues with, which is due to the way they rear their birds leading to high instances of salmonella and other diseases.

But even the chlorine doesn't actually stop the problems

The US has about 1.2million cases of salmonella per year with a population of roughly 340 million.

The EU has about 70000 cases with a population of roughly 450 million.

You may argue "but 1.2 million is still only 0.3% of the population" however the EU has a rate of 0.01%. That equates to the chances of contracting salmonella in the US being 30 times higher than that in the EU.

So go on and explain why the EU should reduce their standards and allow their citizens to be 30 times more likely to contract salmonella than they currently are.

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