re: "Love all animals, big or small" (BP, October 2, 2023)
Dear editor,
If the Post's Kanokporn Chanasongkram were truly concerned about humans inflicting needless suffering on animals before casually slaughtering them, she could have given much more direct and effective advice: stop eating meat.
Whilst medical and other scientific experiments do use animals, that use is relatively insignificant compared to the vast food industries that raise literally billions of animals in appalling conditions before casually slaughtering them for no more necessary reason than to make money by catering to the lust for tasty animal flesh of the humans whose purchases order the maintenance of that suffering and mass daily killing.
I suspect the Buddha would also prefer that his followers not order yet more suffering and killing on their behalf every time they buy meat in supermarkets, restaurants, fast-food joints, and on the street.
Felix Qui
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The above letter to the editor is the text as submitted by Felix Qui to the Bangkok Post.
The text as edited was published in PostBag on October 3, 2023, under the title "Ethics over appetite" at https://www.bangkokpost.com/opinion/postbag/2656422/its-rougher-in-jail
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