"Beef Noodles Storm" Provokes Public Anger Ding Yiming, spokesman for Taiwan's administrative department, was allowed to resign

Ding Yiming, spokesman for the administrative department of the DPP authorities. (Image source: Taiwan's "Zhongshi News Network")

According to Taiwan's "China Times" on November 16, Ding Yiming, spokesman for the administrative department of the Democratic Progressive Party authorities, caused an uproar on the island because he mistakenly accused beef noodle manufacturers of using clenbuterol-containing ractopamine beef. Ding Yiming said on the evening of the 15th that he had asked Su Zhenchang, the head of the administrative department, for permission to resign.

Taipei Mayor Ko Wen-che personally went to the meeting of Taiwan's administrative departments on the 12th to make suggestions, calling for clear labeling of ractopamine-containing U.S. pigs. Ding Yiming went so far as to say that the champion store of this year's Taipei Beef Noodle Festival, the "Royal Heritage", uses beef containing ractopamine. The store then produced an inspection certificate confirming that zero agents had been detected in its beef.

Ding Yiming later changed his mouth to apologize, and ordered 100 bowls of beef noodles, and was grabbed by sharp-eyed netizens to pack the invoice and put a unified number on the administrative department of Taiwan, suspected of intending to report the official account, and was criticized that "even the apology will cost the people's tax money." Ding Yiming had no choice but to cancel the order and re-place the order, and personally went to the store to eat noodles that night to apologize, but it has aroused public anger, and the opposition party asked Ding Yiming to resign, and Su Zhenchang apologized.

On the 15th, some people reported to Taiwan's internal affairs department and the police station that Ding spread false information, but unexpectedly, he was not investigated. Some people in legal circles have criticized that since the end of last year, the police have actively investigated the case of false information, and now the Ding case has not even been summoned, and it is inevitable that it will attract criticism by directly determining that it is "not false information." Related topics continue to ferment on the island. On the evening of the 15th, Ding Yiming asked Su Zhenchang to resign for the gaffe storm.

Taiwan's "China Times" pointed out in an article that Ding Yiming, acting as a spokesman for the administrative department, attacked the heads of counties and cities, but he lost his hand and injured innocent people; this is a mistake that the so-called "fighting cabinet" led by Su Zhenchang will make sooner or later. (Taiwan Network Li Ning)