You can't just ignore farmland pollution just because the toxicity is not yet intense enough, "You can see the extent to which a country respects the lives of its citizens by looking at the government's attitude toward soil pollution," says Lin Cheng-fang, an associate professor in the Graduate School of Environmental Engineering at National Taiwan University.
「政府對農地汙染的態度，可以看出一個國家對人民生命的尊重程度」，台大環境工程學研究所副教授林正芳說。更何況我們對重金屬透過作物、再對人體的影響倒底如何，瞭解仍然太少。