60% doubt gov t ability to inspect imported pork: KMT think tank survey
12/23/2020 07:35 PM
Photo courtesy of the National Policy Foundation
Taipei, Dec. 23 (CNA) More than 60 percent of Taiwanese doubt that the government will be able to effectively monitor ractopamine residue levels in U.S. pork once Taiwan lifts its restrictions on imports containing the controversial feed additive on Jan. 1, according to the results of an opinion poll released Wednesday by a Kuomintang (KMT) think tank.
According to the results of the survey by the opposition KMT-affiliated National Policy Foundation (NPF), 63.4 percent of the respondents said they did not believe the government will be able to fulfill its pledge to test the ractopamine levels in every shipment of pork arriving from the U.S.
“Independence Support Spikes,” blared a headline this week in the
Taipei Times, one of my favorite erstwhile publishing haunts. And blare it should. A Taiwanese Public Opinion Foundation poll indicated that a striking 54 percent of respondents favor early independence from China, 23.4 percent back the cross-strait status quo, 12.5 percent favor early unification with China, and the remainder made no response or were unsure. Breaking down the numbers among those who prefer the status quo who in effect are content to postpone settling the question indefinitely the pollsters found that 64.4 percent of respondents support independence, now or later, while just 17.8 percent endorse unification across the Taiwan Strait.