Postbag
I couldn't believe what I heard on Mcot's 7pm news last night. A percentage of the public in Bangkok would vote if they saw famous actors, actresses and singers actively campaigning.
I wonder what Burin Kantabutra would make of this, after his truly eloquent letter (''Let's be informed'', PostBag, Feb 8) a few days ago extolling education for voters.
LOBZIG
All about the money
Re: ''Dams done in 5 years, says Plodprasop (BP, Feb 10). Here we go again ... the continued talk on building dams is total hogwash.
How can this man say he will replace the forest to be destroyed that took millions of years to evolve?
It is absolute nonsense to think we believe these projects will prevent flooding _ it's all about the money.
Mr Plodprasop has a track record that is still not resolved in the case of shipping tigers to China. When is this man going stop backing mega projects that damage natural resources?
The people must rise up like they did in the 1980s with the Egat dam on the Mae Nam Chon River in Thung Yai Naresuan Wildlife Sanctuary that was stopped in its tracks.
We need to make the world understand that these schemes brain-stormed by politicians in Thailand that destroy natural habitat and kill wildlife for the sake of getting rich have to stop once and for all.
NATURE LOVER
We show compassion
Whenever I tell people I'm a vegetarian, they ask: ''Don't animals eat animals?'' Actually most animal species _ including many of the ones people eat _ are vegetarian.
But what about the animals who do eat animals? Recently I read a story about a monk who saw a scorpion fall out of a tree into the water. As he rescued the scorpion and put it back in the tree the scorpion stung the monk.
Soon the scorpion fell back in the water. Again the monk rescued the scorpion and again the scorpion stung him.
After this happened several times someone who witnessed all this asked the monk why he wanted to help the ungrateful scorpion.
The monk explained: ''While it is in the nature of the scorpion to sting, it is in the nature of the human to save.''
In fact, the only moral difference between us and a scorpion is our capacity to show compassion towards other creatures.
ERIC BAHRT
Can't win either way
Eric Bahrt will go to any lengths to put people off eating meat, now warning us of the dangers of salmonella contamination in chicken; ''Bird risk far from paltry'' (PostBag, Feb 9). So I suppose we should all stop eating chicken.
Using the same principle we should stop eating vegetables because these too carry salmonella and other killer bacteria and, not forgetting the over-use of pesticides in Asia, vegetables are extremely dangerous. Why does Eric not warn us of this?
After reading about how much of the vegetables we eat are contaminated by salmonella and bacterium E. coli O157:H7, which is of particular concern because of its hardiness and the severe consequences of infection, I thought what must we do?
We can't eat meat because, as Eric has warned us, it will kill us. And we can't eat veggies either because that's just as dangerous.
So, Mr Bahrt, please help us because mankind is being poisoned on a daily basis and everyone is dying and should be dead very soon.
Or maybe, we should just be very careful about where we get our foodstuffs from, whether it be meat or vegetables. Just a thought.
VICTOR MELDREW
Bangkok
Tyranny of distance
I booked a taxi from Pattaya to Bangkok for the good price of 1,400 baht.
Last night no taxi drivers were willing to drive a short trip from our hotel to a restaurant for less than 300 baht and none were willing to turn on their meters.
This is called extortion and is not good for tourism or karma.
CARL CARTHY
Sathorn
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