Junk food isn't good for anyone -- especially someone with an elephant's appetite.
From the Associated Press today:
Sri Lanka's most celebrated elephant, "Raja," has fallen ill after eating scores of cookies, chocolates and other rich food offered to him as part of Buddhist new year celebrations.
At dawn Tuesday, monks found Raja writhing in pain with tears in his eyes.
Elephant's mostly eat vegetation, and their digestive system can not easily cope with rich or processed foods, veterinarians said.
The monks on Tuesday hung a handwritten notice by Raja's enclosure that read: "Do not feed the elephant."
Other than the unbelievable grammar errors in that last paragraph ("elephants" should not have an apostrophe; and it should be "their digestive systems" not "system" -- can you believe this writer got published by AP, and no editor caught the mistakes?) I feel bad for Raja. He's clearly got a case of the "morning afters" from his junk food binge.
Maybe other binge eaters should hang that same sign on their refrigerators, along with a photo of poor Raja prostrate in pain. Seems like it might be a good reminder about the need for moderation.
