
The US embassy in Dhaka announced corn imports to Bangladesh, sparking social media criticism. Users highlighted that U.S. corn is often fertilized with pig manure, a detail considered culturally sensitive in Muslim-majority Bangladesh where pork is forbidden. Some posts sarcastically linked the corn imports to U.S. policies and criticized the potential consumption of products grown with pig manure, recalling a past incident of pork contamination in animal feed imports.
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