{"id":25151,"date":"2020-11-27T21:03:03","date_gmt":"2020-11-27T12:03:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/video\/2020\/nov\/27\/fists-and-pig-guts-fly-in-taiwans-parliament-debate-on-us-pork-imports-video"},"modified":"2020-11-27T21:03:03","modified_gmt":"2020-11-27T12:03:03","slug":"fists-and-pig-guts-fly-in-taiwans-parliament-debate-on-us-pork-imports-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=25151","title":{"rendered":"Fists and pig guts fly in Taiwan&#8217;s parliament debate on US pork imports \u2013 video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Legislators from Taiwan&#8217;s main opposition Kuomintang (KMT) party threw&nbsp;pig&nbsp;guts and exchanged punches with other lawmakers in parliament on Friday as they tried to stop the premier, Su Tseng-chang, from taking questions, in a bitter dispute over easing US pork imports.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>President Tsai Ing-wen announced in August that the government would, from 1 January, allow imports of US pork containing ractopamine, an additive that enhances leanness but is banned in the EU and China, as well as US beef more than 30 months old<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/nov\/27\/taiwan-politicians-throw-pig-guts-meat-row\">Taiwan politicians throw pig guts at each other in row over meat imports<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/video\/2020\/nov\/27\/fists-and-pig-guts-fly-in-taiwans-parliament-debate-on-us-pork-imports-video\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Legislators from Taiwan&#8217;s main opposition Kuomintang (KMT) party threw&nbsp;pig&nbsp;guts and exchanged punches with other lawmakers in parliament on Friday as they tried to stop the premier, Su Tseng-chang, from taking questions, in a bitter dispute o&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[653,1209,74,47,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-farming","category-food-safety","category-taiwan","category-us-news","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25151"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25151\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25238,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25151\/revisions\/25238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}