Sunday, September 21, 2008

Teresa's RM5.80 food worse than cat & dog food

"...There's one day they gave me two boiled eggs for lunch,
two boiled eggs for dinner, some kuah & cucumber, that is my
lunch & my dinner..." Teresa Kok


Teresa Kok claimed that she was served with “dog food” while under ISA detention.

Wait a minute, her description of dog food was way off of my version of dog food. In civilized city such as KL where dog owners are more educated, they don’t serve their lovely dogs with 2 boiled eggs, some gravy with cucumbers! Their pet food is much better enriched with various types of vitamins, minerals and proteins. Lookup in shopping centers, pet shops, veterinary clinics or grocery shops for various types of brands, prices are not cheap too compare to a RM5.80 jail food. This food has been researched and tested in labs by veterinarians and nutritionists for the healthy growth of dogs in various aspects. The formulated diet is safe that even if we accidentally try or take it, it will not cause side effects. This type of food is formulated for cats’ diet as well. I believe if Pak Lah or Syed Hamid got cats, their pets will be royally pampered with diet from recognized brands instead of telur rebus.

Even for mongrels or pariah cats and dogs in the outskirts or villages, owners don’t treat their pets with the type of diet as described by Teresa. The owners normally feed their pets with leftover rice, meat and vegetables. In short, their pets eat what their owners take, in a very humanized way. Not too bad since it contains balance diet.

In other words, cats and dogs are enjoying much better food then Teresa’s diet in lockup. For serving unhealthy diet on pets, reports can be lodged at SPCA and pet owners can be charged on such irresponsible acts.

That's how our pets been treated nowadays. As for Teresa, we people feel pity on your ordeal. A budgeted meal of RM5.80 for a lockup detainee (should the claim is true), is just not enough to sustain the body's requirement of balance diet. By right the government should have raised the budget since inflation has already risen. For a cell equipped with cold bed next to a smelly sanitary hole, the remanded detainees and criminals should at least deserve a better basic necessity such as food for their survival.

Hold on, Ahmad Ismail and his fanatic supporters suppose to be under ISA detention right now for stirring the racism chaos and tearing down someone’s photo. Instead of Penang nasi kandar, they should be in detention now to experience the taste of RM5.80 food and make some complaints back to government to improve the situation of detainees.
For the meals that we have daily, let us be grateful, thankful and don’t make it a habit to waste food. Don't forget the unfortunate ones who are still eating similar or worse than the “dog food” described by Teresa, those who can’t even afford RM5.80 food per day, those who have to scavenge the dustbins for food, those who have to match the stray animals for leftover food. These are the struggling people whom we often forget about their existence in society.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

it's rm4.8