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Updated Wednesday, October 28, 2009 9:21 am TWN, The China Post news staff

Don't be mad, please

That's why Chen Wu-hsiung, chairman of the Council of Agriculture, told lawmakers yesterday he would gladly and happily eat any risky imported American beef and beef products. He put his family on the line, too. His family members would, just like him, eat such products, he promised. But he made a gaffe. He said he doesn't advise people to eat them. There is no reason why he should say so. People who do not like to eat beef know what to do without being admonished.

We wish to call on our public health-conscious legislators not to worry. Their taking the administration to task is already more than enough warning to even “beef-eaters” — not the yeomen of the Tower of London — not to risk a one-in-a-million chance of getting mad cow disease by going to chic steak houses to order a fat T-bone steak for dinner.

One thing all opponents to the protocol have to keep in mind is that it has already been signed. If it is regarded as an agreement or treaty, the lawmakers may refuse to ratify it. Well, that's the power the Constitution gives them. If not, they may legislate some countermeasures to make sure no one will get mad cow disease. We do not want them to force the administration to renegotiate a new protocol, albeit we believe they don't have that in mind.

On the other hand, we are certain that the opposition is just opposing for opposition's sake. Democratic Progressive Party leaders, from its chairwoman Tsai Ing-wen on down, are more than happy to seize what they believe is a golden opportunity to embarrass President Ma Ying-jeou. Had the protocol been signed while President Chen Shui-bian was in office, no one in the current opposition would have raised any objections. Remember Chen recently described himself as an agent of the U.S. military government on Taiwan who had to take orders from the AIT in Taiwan?

Please also remember what the United States has done to help Taiwan become what it is now. Without its help, there would be no Republic of China on Taiwan. There would never have been any economic takeoff that created many steak lovers here in the first place. The United States is the only country in the world that may come to our help if and when hostilities break out across the Taiwan Street. Taiwan owes Uncle Sam so much that it should accept this benign protocol that opponents have wrongfully described as a treaty that humiliates the country, willingly.

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