[Closed] Chlorinated Chicken - what's the big deal ?

Of course. We could. We could also have more stringent environmental regulation.

But didn't we already have more stringent regulations for animal welfare anyway? Surely that means we had the ability to do more than the EU minimum anyway?

The concern about the US process seems rather tenuous to me, the use of chlorine washing may increase the risk of poor practice

No, chlorine washing is needed BECAUSE of widespread poor practice. It's a cheap fix to a problem.

by leaving the EU we can correct many of the animal husbandry and health issues that come with membership

Which issues are those? Can you name one?

But didn't we already have more stringent regulations for animal welfare anyway? Surely that means we had the ability to do more than the EU minimum anyway?

In some case yes - such as veal and pork. But a number of people making that argument are ignoring the areas in which we didn't, for example caged hens and fish quotas.