DPP passes ractopamine directivesCHRISTMAS SPIRIT? Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) Chairman Johnny Chiang, front row, center, leads KMT lawmakers in a protest of government plans to import US pork containing ractopamine at the legislature in Taipei yesterday. Photo: Liao Chen-huei, Taipei TimesOpposition lawmakers from the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) and the Taiwan People’s Party (TPP) voted against the directives. Taiwan Statebuilding Party Legislator Chen Po-wei (陳柏惟) and independent Legislator Freddy Lim (林昶佐) sided with the DPP. KMT caucus deputy secretary-general Cheng Li-wun (鄭麗文) said: “DPP legislators have castrated themselves by going against the public will.”“They are a rubber-stamp team and the party has become a ‘ractopamine pork’ entity,” she said.

Source: Taipei Times December 24, 2020 15:56 UTC