US Imports: Do not throw entrails at pork debate, speaker pleads
By Jason Pan
and Sherry Hsiao / Staff reporters
Legislative Speaker You Si-kun yesterday asked Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) lawmakers not to throw pig entrails during a legislative session later this week to deliberate on the government’s decision to allow imports of US pork containing ractopamine residue.
On Friday, a consensus was reached during cross-caucus negotiations that the legislature would on Thursday review nine administrative directives related to allowing imports of US pork containing traces of the feed additive. A vote on the nine directives is expected.
The KMT caucus has said that it would protest the issue inside and outside the Legislative Yuan, and would mobilize party supporters.