In fact, ever since 1984--when it was found that the Chi-li Chemical Company had been pouring out cadmium waste water over a long period, leading to 85 hectares of farmland becoming wasteland--incidents of the destruction of farmland have come one after another from all over the place. Each occasion creates a fear in society: "Am I eating contaminated rice?"
事實上，由民國七十三年桃園縣觀音鄉發生基力化工廠長期排放鎘廢水，導致八十五公頃農地成為廢墟；農地汙染事件就屢由各地傳出，每回也都造成社會「會不會吃到汙染米？」