Smell of death keeps them away from meat

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'Smell of death keeps them away from meat'

Friday January 14 2005 13:27 IST

 

REUTERS

 

BANGKOK: 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 December 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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