Your Aug. 8 issue carried on page 1 the photograph of a veterinarian with a placard reading, "Dog spelled backwards is G-O-D." This picture should have appeared on page 5 as "Bayan ko" photo since it illustrates one of the many things wrong with our country.

One of our country’s major ills is the hypocrisy typified by veterinarians who want the eating of dog-meat outlawed, despite the fact that the major market for stray dogs and cats are medical and veterinary students who dissect these animals in their anatomy classes.

Such veterinarians are simply showing their solidarity with their clients, those rich people who treat their pedigreed dogs and cats far better than their office employees and house servants and who, adding insult to injury, consider as less moral those of us who see nothing wrong in eating dog meat.

The demonstrating veterinarians are lending their professional prestige to this mongrel form of moral superiority. If I were a veterinarian in the picture, I too would hide my face behind the placard every time a photographer came into view.

ROSEMARIE ABUNDIO