While US consumers dine on a steady diet of Chinese melamine, ethylene glycol, and lead, our Chinese trading partners have seen fit to ban imports of US pork.

The culprit is ractopamine, a growth additive fed to hogs in the US legally, but one that is banned in Taiwan and China.

As our Taiwanese trading partners rethink their aversion to ractopamine, Beijing continues to refuse shipments containing residues of the drug. Some believe that other trade issues are driving China's refusal to buy our pork. Among those are US rhetoric against lead laced toys and intellectual property rights that China continues to ignore.

Our advice to Beijing?

Get the lead out of Fair Trade. Among other things.

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