date:Aug 02, 2012
as beef.
Failing to lift the ractopamine ban for pork was not an inadvertent omission,said NPPC president RC Hunt.It is nothing more than a ploy by the Taiwanese government to bring the US back to the TIFA negotiating table.
In Taiwan, pork production is much more important than beef, and pork producers have much more political clout. This, and only this, explains the decision to lift the ractopamine ban on beef but not on pork.
NPPC also called on US officials to warn Taiwan that the US woul