KMT protests decision on pork importsUS MEAT FUROR: The premier said NT$10bn has been set aside for pig farmers, but pork exports should increase, as Taiwan has been declared free of foot-and-mouth diseaseBy Sean Lin / Staff reporterChinese Nationalist Party (KMT) lawmakers yesterday protested outside the legislative chamber against the government’s decision to lift a ban on US pork containing ractopamine while a Czech delegation led by Czech Senate President Milos Vystrcil was visiting. Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) legislators yesterday stage a protest at the Legislative Yuan in Taipei against the government’s decision to lift a ban on imports of pork containing ractopamine. Separately yesterday, Premier Su Tseng-chang (蘇貞昌) was asked at an event in Taipei about several local governments saying that they would ban the sale of pork containing ractopamine. The fund would partially be used to upgrade facilities used by pig farmers and improve the industry as a whole, he said. Su said that Taiwanese still prefer locally produced pork, which accounts for 91 percent of total pork sales, and people’s eating habits would not change with the lifting of the ban.

Source: Taipei Times September 01, 2020 15:56 UTC