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the dpp authorities have allowed the import of american pork containing ractopamine for more than three years. however, in the past three years, pork labeled as produced in the united states has rarely been seen on the island's market, which is a "gap" with the huge import volume. this strange phenomenon has caused widespread doubts on the island, and people from all walks of life have been asking where the "ractopamine pork" has gone?

"where did the imported u.s. pork go? who ate it?" such doubts and confusions have always lingered in the hearts of the people on the island. taiwan's public opinion has called on the dpp authorities to open up information on the flow of imported pork, safeguard consumers' right to choose and right to know, and not use consumers' health and safety as a bargaining chip for political transactions.

in response, the dpp authorities made all kinds of excuses, constantly using reasons such as "the market share of imported u.s. pork is low" and "it is the result of market orientation" to evade the public. they also insisted that they would do a good job of "checking", but they could not give the exact destination of "ractopamine-containing pork".

a survey released by the taiwan consumers foundation (ccf) on the 29th has once again stirred up a food safety storm, triggering concerns on the island that businesses are cheating and arbitrarily changing the origin labels ("washing the origin"). the survey results show that only 2 of the 600 pork-related foods were marked as originating from the united states, accounting for 0.3% of the survey, and one of them was american pork from south korea.

however, according to statistics, as of july this year, taiwan imported more than 5,200 tons of pork from the united states, ranking third in import volume. in june 2023, the taiwan consumers foundation released a survey on the origin of commercially available pork products and called on the taiwan food and drug administration to pay attention to labeling issues. but one year later, the taiwan consumers foundation conducted another survey on the same issue, and the imported american pork was still nowhere to be found in the market, which was very different from the total number of american pork imports announced by the taiwan food and drug administration.

taiwan media articles and comments pointed out that the dpp authorities were actually deliberately letting the issue go to cover up the traces of "ractopamine pork": from the beginning, they found various reasons to oppose the labeling of whether imported pork contained ractopamine, and at the same time launched a so-called "local pig" logo that can be freely downloaded, making it impossible for consumers to distinguish. in addition, the tracking system they spent a huge amount of money to develop allows businesses to fill in the information on their own, and no matter how outrageous the content is, they will not "report it to the police"...

"poisoning citizens and harming generations!" "the dpp authorities have poisoned the taiwanese people's dining tables in recent years!" taiwanese netizens bluntly said that from the us "ractopamine-laced pork", canada's "mad cow" to japan's "nuclear food", the dpp authorities have become habitual offenders in fawning on foreigners and harming taiwan when it comes to imported food. some taiwanese netizens angrily denounced the dpp authorities for "talking about morality and justice, but doing nothing but being unscrupulous!"