[LETTERS]

The EU and the US agreed in May to maintain the ban on hormone-treated beef and to permit hormone-free beef once again into the EU without duty. Why is our government not acting like other developed and advanced countries by looking at the real threat and dangers in US beef?

Should we be concerned about the extremely unlikely chance of contracting BSE or the irrefutably confirmed risks associated with daily doses of hormones?

Don’t we get enough chemicals, pesticides, herbicides and other toxins from seafood harvested from the heavily polluted waters around this gorgeous island? Do we also need to import hormone-treated beef and chicken from the US and quite likely China?

No meat of any animal treated with hormones from any country should be allowed into Taiwan.

DAN LUTHI

Taichung