Pai Thailand monkey tortured

Well-intentioned (western) tourists don't have much impact on this sort of thing, wandering into a country on a holiday and trying to set the country straight. Animals are not always seen as the sorts of things one ought to care for. Humans aren't guaranteed decent treatment, let alone a monkey. Even in the morally upstanding West animal concern is relatively recent.

I doubt it'll have much effect on business, even if all the people who read your message take your suggestion and do boycott the place.

Can you have a monkey steak here? I've been looking for a place for ages!

I do think monkeys are like little humans though and better left in the wild. There's a big monkey in a small cage sitting here outside just around the corner, in very bad shape and has been there for ages... No idea why! As oldpro sais different culture. And what about the shape all those city dogs are in?! Horrible!

Posts like these may be more helpful in a general sense rather than offering any real hope for that particular caged monkey.

Tourists need to think more about the impact they have on the destinations they visit. It's a wider issue than just animal welfare but if people start thinking then lots of tourist related animal cruelty can be stopped.

If people make objections about caged monkeys in restaurants or stop feeding elephants on the streets or having their pictures taken with drugged animals (and so on) then the profit goes out of it and the cruelty will stop.

The impact of occasional posts here might be negligible but, hey, no harm trying.

Sadly an all to familiar story.
While there are still elephants being paraded around the middle of bangkok there is no hope at all.

The saddest thing is the tourists attitude towards these things. many expect to much from Thailand but maybe they should look at themselves first.
Seeing people from a developed and educated country feeding the cute elephant or monkey rather than thinking of the implications is the main problem.

No demand equals no supplt

This is a country where you get 18 years in jail for speaking your mind, and you choose to worry about a monkey?

they use their children an money makers, do you really think they care about an animal. here children are raised to believe they are a liability to the family, since they were born, and must repay for being raised..........what a F'g up society. use your kid for financial gain, no school, work, what ever benefits the parents now, not the future of child. all them kids you see during the day, working and riding around with parents/grandparents during school hours...........they have no future, just money machines for family. all the underage vendors working day and night, no school, no future.

in western society, you work hard to provide everything so your child gets a good start on life, here, the opposite, they are trained to take care of family, simply because they were born. no school, work now, money now, after we die, oh well, the cycle continues. i do for parents, you do for me. TIT

Chanchao - you can worry about more than one thing if you like. You don't have to specialise in the area you personally judge as most important.

Udornia I agree eduction needs improvement and a dose of Bhuddism may encourage animal rights but as Chanchao said humans are having a tough time and conditioning is strong .This is no excuse for not raising the issue in ahope of interrupting as often as practicable.
TAT promotes Tiger shows croc parks there are still cock and dog fights in rural areas
I di however see just as many school aged kids at large in Cambridge this year and their behaviour language was far more threatening.A few hours in family shop or farm doesnt prepare you for gap year or living on welfare but quite handy if its your livlihood from 14

OP is 100% right. I wish I had his sense of going out and doing, or at least saying, something - now not later. He's done the right thing in posting here, alerting people and suggesting that people not eat there. I've often just let it slide.

The other issues brought up here range from distractions at best to self-involved and grossly irrelevant Thai political blather about "speaking your mind" in Thailand. Speaking his mind is what OP is doing. Is that somehow not ok? How many years in jail do you think, Chanchao, is appropriate for speaking one's mind on Lonely Planet?