Taiwan: To persuade the people to eat more pineapples, DPP officials fight it

Published 2021년 2월 27일

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The article highlights a sudden suspension of pineapple imports from Taiwan to the mainland China starting from March 1, 2021, due to the detection of quarantine pests. This decision, based on China's laws, regulations, and standards, aims to prevent plant epidemics. The situation has sparked discussions and criticisms among Taiwanese netizens and officials, with Taiwan's President Tsai Ing-wen promoting the consumption of pineapples domestically. Despite the suspension, Taiwan continues to export pineapples to other countries, including Japan, Hong Kong, and Singapore. The article ends by expressing that the measure is a necessary biosafety precaution but has stirred resentment among some Taiwanese netizens.

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► In the past two days, Yan Shanshan from the observer network, a normal measure issued by the mainland to prevent the risk of plant epidemics, did not expect to trigger an explosive public opinion on the other side, and it also spawned a "small lecture hall on how to eat pineapple". On the 27th, After the emergency of pineapple exports aroused the whole island’s concern, DPP officials did not focus on agricultural product quarantine safety and solving the problem of slow sales, but instead focused on exporting pineapples for domestic sales, preparing to encourage the whole island to eat pineapples, and even more for the DPP." The legislator urged the people in Taiwan to eat pineapple as a vegetable. Fan Yun’s Facebook photo on the 27th, the DPP “legislator” Fan Yun took the lead in opening classes. The associate professor of the Department of Sociology at National Taiwan University brought the people on the island with the morning sun Greetings: Did you buy pineapples today? ...

Source: Sohu