KMT official defends anti-ractopamine vote as mainstream stance

A Kuomintang (KMT) official has defended the party's backing of a referendum that would ban the import of pork products containing ractopamine while acknowledging that passage of the vote could affect Taiwan's trade talks with the United States.

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