THE EDITOR, Sir:

I KNOW it is a new age and we have to be cutting edge but, lawd, the body bars story in your Tuesday edition is sickening. The illustration is stomach-turning. The 'table' looks like a corpse laid out but for the undertaker. Incidentally, the craze for body bars, usually serving Japanese sushi, was on in the United States about five years ago, till public outrage and public health shut them down. As usual, we pick up every aberration even after they've been run out of town elsewhere.

As to the $25,000 fee for participation, dear God ... and children are starving? No!

Barbara Gloudon

Kingston 5