Chen Ting-nan, now a member of the Legislative Yuan, was consistently tough on industrial polluters as Ilan county chief, but he admits he didn't treat agricultural polluters the same way. Farmers are in a weaker position than firms, he felt, and their livelihood is easily affected.
立法委員陳定南在擔任宜蘭縣長時，一向對工業污染不假辭色，嚴加整斥；但他也承認，因為農民不是企業，屬於弱者，動輒影響生計，使他處理農業公害時，確實無法和工業公害一視同仁。