Pig guts and punches flew in a wild brawl between Taiwanese lawmakers Friday over the easing of US pork imports.

Members of the country’s main opposition party Kuomintang (KMT) hurled buckets of the innards toward Premier Su Tseng-chang to protest the decision to allow the import of US pork containing ractopamine, an additive that enhances leanness but is banned from more than 100 countries.

Footage showed some of the members sporting rain jackets to dump the swine guts as opposing lawmakers attempted to form a protective barrier around Su.

Some also exchanged punches in the brief but heated encounter with Chen Po-wei from the small Taiwan Statebuilding Party.

The ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) on Friday slammed the gory protest, saying it was a waste of food that “stank up” the parliament floor and was “disgusting.”

But the KMT has defended the messy ordeal, claiming the decision to import pork was rushed and is a health threat.

“In order to protect people’s health and protect the bottom line of food safety, the opposition party cannot but resist,” the party said in a statement.

Lev Nachman, a PhD candidate who studies Taiwanese politics at the University of California at Irvine, said that there is a “long history” of brawling in politics there, though noted younger voters may consider it an “embarrassment,” the Washington Post reported.

“It’s an embarrassment for Taiwan,” he told the newspaper. “But Taiwanese people absolutely care about this issue, and if there’s one issue to go all-in on, this is it.”

With Post wires