And in more recent memory, they moved in the to deny Southern/Eastern European countries any covid assistance, citing "well, if they weren't as lazy/spendy they'd have money to deal with an unknown pandemic". Then proceeded to have a half-assed lockdown and were one of the first nations to outright say "personal freedom and the economy is more important than your grandma living".

They have one of the largest dairy/agroindustrial sectors in the world, continuously pushing for the deregulation of the global food production landscape, for further precarization of farm and food industry workers, and for the trivialization of any and all regulations that might make agriculture a bit less poisonous for everyone involved.