On the issue of food imports from Fukushima, the Tsai government may once again face opposition from the Kuomintang camp. (The picture shows the Kuomintang legislator holding a placard to protest the lifting of the ban on nuclear food) Photo: Zhang Liangyi / photo (file photo)
The issue of lifting the ban on food in the five prefectures and cities of Fukushima, Japan, came to the surface after the U.S. pig referendum. Some DPP legislators called for nuclear food to be renamed Fushi, which sparked discussions. Senior media person Huang Weihan believes that regardless of whether the opposition Kuomintang can block it, “food from the five counties and cities around Fukushima” will eventually be imported into Taiwan.
Huang Weihan said that in the past 11 years, Taiwanese have called “food from the five counties and cities around Fukushima” as “nuclear food”. It is not to discriminate against these five counties and cities, but because after the Fukushima nuclear disaster in 2011, the agricultural and fishery products of the surrounding counties and cities were worried that they would be contaminated by radiation, so the government of the Republic of China decided to “stop importing” at that time.
11 years have passed, and now, for the sake of CPTPP, the discussion on whether to open up the import of “food from the five counties and cities around Fukushima” into Taiwan, and whether the word “nuclear food” should be changed to “blessing food”, has already been discussed on the Internet. Huang Weihan believes that directly speaking of “nuclear food” is indeed suspected of “stigmatization”. After all, after scientific testing, if it does not contain radiation, it would be unfair to call it “nuclear food”. But changing the name to “Fu Shi” is too pretentious. The Chinese word “Fu” means good luck. Eating Japanese food will bring good luck and good fortune? It’s also a bit too placement marketing.
Huang Weihan said that no matter what everyone calls it, his name is very clear, which is “food from the five counties and cities around Fukushima”. Regardless of whether the opposition party “can’t stop it”, his view is very simple. “Food from the five counties and cities around Fukushima” will eventually be imported into Taiwan.
Huang Weihan believes that at this moment, the opposition party has two choices: “block” and “not block”. The person who proposed the anti-nuclear food referendum in 2018 was the vice chairman of the Kuomintang, Hao Longbin, so “anti-nuclear food” is indeed the “attitude” of the Kuomintang. Two years have passed, and the issue has resurfaced. No matter what the people choose in the end, as the opposition party, the Blue Camp can still continue to stand for and oppose it.
If it is not blocked, Huang Weihan takes the Lai pig referendum as an example. At this moment, whether the Taiwanese people will oppose “nuclear food”, he is very doubtful. Anti-Lai pigs are described as “anti-American” by the DPP, and anti-nuclear food will naturally become “anti-Japanese”. During the referendum process, the Blue Camp has already been labeled as “anti-American”, and if it is “anti-Japanese” now, it will be farther from the mainstream public opinion in Taiwan.
Huang Weihan pointed out that it is also a practice to choose not to block nuclear food, or even openly support the opening of nuclear food, but it must be “clearly marked”. But between blocking and unstopping, the Blue Camp is caught in a dilemma. The six-game losing streak has passed. What Zhu Lilun has to solve is the import of food from the five counties and cities around Fukushima to Taiwan, and the 2022 county mayor election.
Senior media person Huang Weihan believes that regardless of whether the opposition Kuomintang can stop it, “food from the five counties and cities around Fukushima” will eventually be imported into Taiwan
The issue of lifting the ban on food in five counties and cities in Fukushima, Japan, came to the surface after the U.S. pig referendum. Some DPP legislators called for nuclear food to be renamed Fushi, which sparked discussions
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