THERE have been a couple of letters to your column recently concerning the use of a Third World country as background to advertise hamburgers.
In the same week I listened to the story of a qualified medic who has just completed a spell in Tonga where she set up a medical centre specialising in the provision of very basic artificial legs for the less well-off local population.
The legs were made from pieces of plastic drainpipe and old rubber tyres and they were much needed by people who have lost their legs as a result of diabetes. The cause of the diabetes? Too much westernised food! I suggest that the advertisement in question might be more accurate if the final scene showed a parrot flying about instead of that rooster.
JAMES RAMSAY Wan Chai
