The China Post
Date: November 19, 2016
By: Sun Hsin Hsuan
TAIPEI, Taiwan — Hundreds on Thursday called for the president and premier to resign, accusing the
Kuomintang councilors join a protest outside the Executive Yuan against the government’s plan to lift a ban on Japanese radiation-affected food imports, Friday. (Sun Hsin Hsuan, The China Post)
ruling party of “selling out Taiwan” and “poisoning our children” in its push to ease a ban on food imports from Japan’s radiation-affected regions.
Protesters organized by the Kuomintang (KMT) demonstrated in front of the Executive Yuan early Thursday, as party councilors from across the country took turns addressing the crowd.
“We are humans, and humans don’t eat radiation-contaminated food,” the crowd chanted with Tainan City Councilor Hsieh Lung-chieh (謝龍介), who accused that Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) of betraying its promise to safeguard Taiwan’s food safety.
“We all remember clearly which party strongly protested against nuclear power in the past, but who’s about to feed poisonous food to our children now!” Hsieh said. [FULL STORY]
