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Fugi exhibits exemplary behavior

Animal rights and milk

I didn’t say I was leaving…

Fugi exhibits exemplary behavior

Dear Editor,
I would like to commend the management of Fuji Restaurant, Festival Center North, for exemplary response to a minor emergency yesterday. My wife managed to get a small fish bone firmly stuck inside her throat while eating lunch at Fuji. I don’t blame Fuji in the least for this event - bones are certainly a known hazard when eating fish anywhere.
Kanjana Phuangmalai and Saorarot Domkrathok, the restaurant manager and the table captain, showed great concern to the point of voluntarily accompanying us to Bangkok Hospital Pattaya, waiting patiently whilst the doctor removed the offending small but painful object, then paying in full for the service.
Our kudos and thanks to the staff and management of Fuji Restaurant for this exemplary behavior.
Robert Peterson
Huay Yai

Animal rights and milk

Dear Editor,
Prior to attempting to invade Britain in 55BC Julius Caesar sent out spies to assess the military capabilities of the Brits, who were an unknown quantity. And what he learned from these spies was enough to chill the blood of his most battle-hardened warriors ... the Brits drank milk from their livestock!
Eric Bahrt is equally terrified that a lot of people drink cow’s milk and insists that it is the cause of many, many ailments and that we would all be much better off if we did not pursue this barbaric practice. The fact that there are six billion people on the planet right now, a large proportion of whom DO drink milk from livestock, seems to have escaped him. I am aware that certain people are lactose intolerant but similar allergies apply to strawberries, peanuts and dozens of other foods, but hardly enough to consider a total ban on these products altogether.
I do agree with Eric on one thing though, and that is the ethical treatment of animals. I cannot stand the thought of any poor creature being mistreated in any way prior to being killed for food and the act of killing should be swift and sure and comply with the highest standards possible. If any restaurant chain or their supplier is found to be contravening these standards then they should be dealt with severely and people (including milk drinkers) should avoid these restaurants like the plague if they do not clean up their act.
Dick Turpin

I didn’t say I was leaving…

Editor;
I enjoyed the responses to my dissertation on KFC, but there is one thing I would like to clarify. Al Reynolds suggested that I had said that I was leaving Thailand. (This was in protest to the smoking outlaw in bars.) Actually what I said was that I had to stay in Thailand because of my kids, but that when I take my periodic vacations, they would be in either Macau or Cambodia. I don’t drink in Yasothon, so the smoking laws don’t bother me, but when I vacation, I drink a lot (every six weeks). Cambodia and Macau haven’t been Westernized yet.
I would also like to correct him about making my chicken to my personal specifications. Original recipe chicken breasts are hardly “to my personal specifications”.
I swear that everything that happened, happened as I reported. My letter, although possibly not seeming to be pertinent to anything important in the world, was meant to illustrate what is going on with American corporations. In an economic atmosphere such as exists today, where corporations are either going under or being bailed out by governments it would seem that illustrating some of the reasons for their failures would be important. Using the Internet as a means of hiding out is not good business. Not staying on top of your stores to keep the type of chicken that created the corporation in stock is not good business. And like Erik says, torturing chickens is not good business either. And by the way, to enter my birth date, I used their Western calendar to state my birth date, and, as it is an American corporation, it would seem to make sense to have their website in both Thai and English.
I’m sorry that some people didn’t understand my intention of exposing people to some of the foolishness that goes on in corporations and how it has put them into the positions that they are now in, but I guess that maybe my message was encrypted within the multitude of words.
KFC was a very successful company when Harland Sanders owned it. When he elected to sell it to some corporation, it suddenly changed. Chicken breasts became “half” chicken breasts, new recipes were added, (crispy, spicy, etc.) and like most corporations, the personal touch was completely lost and we were brought into a cyberspace assembly line. They did keep the original recipe, but now you can’t even get the thing that created the company. And I would be willing to bet that the chicken abuse didn’t start until the “corporate officers” found that it would improve “the bottom line”. If you want to better understand why what is happening in the world today with business and finance is happening, you only have to study this one reflection of the failing of a way of life.
I tried to make my letter humorous, but the truth is that what is happening is not humorous at all. It is tragic.
To Micky Fin Bly, I apologize for boring you. Hopefully you will find more interest in this explanation.
John Arnone
Yasothon

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