Europe Dreads America's Chlorinated Chickens

Europeans have long been suspicious of U.S. poultry. American birds, they complain, are bathed in a chlorine solution before they’re brought to market. That’s why EU leaders are currently fighting to uphold a ban on imports of what is popularly referred to as “Chicken in Chlorine Sauce.”

“There will be no imports of chlorinated chicken from the U.S.,” Angela Merkel insisted during the European elections earlier this year. “I have prevented those imports for years, and I will continue to prevent them. No question.”