Since 2021, relevant mainland departments have repeatedly tested banned drugs from grouper samples sent to the mainland for inspection by Taiwan. Therefore, in June this year, General Administration of Customs suspended grouper import trade activities in Taiwan in accordance with the law. The consequence is that Taiwan faces a large number of grouper sales. .
In order to alleviate this problem, the Taiwanese authorities actually came up with the method of eating durian and bananas, and promoted grouper eating in primary and secondary schools across Taiwan. After the release of this policy, it immediately became a hot topic in Taiwan's public opinion.
According to a report from a Taiwanese media, the Taiwanese authorities formulated this grouper promotion policy called "Banban eats grouper" three months ago. According to the plan, the Taiwan education department will cooperate with the Taiwan agricultural department to spend 600 million NT$1 NT$2 to provide one meal of grouper per month for all Taichung primary school students within three months. The purpose of the policy of
is mainly to solve the problem of the export of unsold groupers caused by the mainland ban and the sharp drop in prices.
According to Chen Jizhong, head of the Taiwan agricultural authority, recently revealed to the outside world that the procurement case for grouper has been completed, and the plan of "Eat grouper " will be gradually implemented in primary and secondary schools in all counties and cities across Taiwan from the end of October. Pan Wenzhong, head of the education department in charge of Taiwan, said: The education department in Taiwan will provide four grouper dishes this semester for primary and secondary school students in Taiwan.
Taiwan’s relevant departments have aroused criticism from all walks of life in Taiwan. Grouper, as the expensive marine fish , is also very expensive. According to incomplete statistics, there are more than 3,600 primary and secondary schools in Taiwan. If you eat four times a semester, it will cost NT$600 million (about RMB 135 million).
If "eating groupers in every class" becomes normalized, it will cost NT$1.35 billion (about NT$303 million) in this aspect alone.
So the head of a Taiwan association said that using public funds to subsidize a single product is appropriate. The more radical statement is that the subsidies are used on grouper, and there is no educational spirit, while parents are worried about the health of their children. "Have these grouper medicine passed? What if children eat such 'poisonous fish', or does the authorities think it doesn't matter if they give them to children?"
For the cases where Taiwan's agricultural products were suspended due to safety and quality issues, it is not just grouper. It was discovered that pests were found in pineapples exported to the mainland a few years ago. It was also detected that harmful life was harmful from sour and wax fog .
In order to solve these unsold agricultural products, the Taiwan authorities have repeatedly adopted the "export to domestic sales". The Taiwan agricultural and grain authorities once called on Taiwanese people to eat more pineapples when pineapples were unsold in 2021, and the Taiwan defense department also announced that it would add a large amount of pineapples to the Taiwan military's food to solve this problem.
and even senior DPP officials claimed in public that every Taiwanese could solve this problem by eating 18 kilograms of pineapples a day. As soon as these words were said, they were immediately sarcastic from both inside and outside the island.
had pineapples in front of them, and there were difficulties in selling sausages later. In order to solve this problem, the Taiwan authorities actually started a levy. The Taiwan administrative department issued a document requiring various offices in Taiwan and public institutions to . "Voluntary subscription"
. For the current unsalable grouper sales of more than 3,600 tons, the Taiwanese authorities have recommended it to Japan before, but just as the first batch of grouper exported to Japan was about to be transported, the relevant Japanese authorities were rejected on the grounds of "not being assured of food safety". Seeing that it was impossible to continue exporting, the Taiwanese authorities forced the island-wide catering agencies to subscribe, but the results were very little.
Finally, the Taiwan authorities had to come up with old tricks and let the Taiwanese army eat grouper every day. As of now, the Taiwan defense department has purchased a total of 1,548 kilograms of grouper for daily food in the Taiwan army, but the food expenses of the Taiwan army are only NT$100 per person per day (22.5 yuan). If we want to cooperate with this policy of the Taiwan authorities, the grouper alone will cost 30% to 40% of the daily food expenses.
For a long time, whenever Taiwan encounters agricultural products suspended from import by the mainland, the Taiwan authorities have only three magic weapons: "subsidies", "calling the whole people to eat", and "let the Taiwan military improve their food". This year, the pineapple and wax fog have not been eaten yet, and grouper has been added.
So some people say that the DPP always uses the hard-earned money of the people to please farmers and win the favor of related businesses. But forcing grouper to eat for students is obviously a political operation to divert attention, rather than actively establishing relevant security systems to restore exports to the mainland as soon as possible.