Thai Tsunami Workers Turn Vegetarian - Report Smell
Of Death Putting People Off Meat
17 January 2005 - BANGKOK (Reuters)
The gruesome task of retrieving the bodies of tsunami victims has
turned many Thai rescue workers vegetarian, the Matichon newspaper
said on Friday.
"Our operations in the first days weren't going smoothly,"
Chatchawan Suthiarun, who led a team of 70 in Khao Lak where about
4,000 people, more than half of them foreign tourists, were killed
on Dec. 26, told the Thai-language newspaper.
"After we turned to vegetarian food and lighting jossticks
to the spirits asking for help, the job has become much easier,
he said.
Matichon said vegetarian food was all the rage in one nearby village,
where a makeshift relief kitchen produced about 1,000 boxes of meatless
food a day.
The newspaper quoted a survivor as saying that the smell of death
had put her off meat.
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