- 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.
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- "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.
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- "After we turned to vegetarian food and lighting
jossticks to the spirits asking for help, the job has become much easier,
he said.
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- 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.
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- The newspaper quoted a survivor as saying that the smell
of death had put her off meat.
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- http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/BKK308503.htm
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