So basically, I would argue that they're wealthy in their own right. But many western people would disagree. But anyway, I think the time they have enables them to focus on values such as those.

In the US we don't have a lot of time, but we have a ton of resources and a fairly powerful police state that allows us to enforce those values even if some of our citizens don't understand why. That's a wealth of a different kind. Probably a lesser wealth, since it is based only in arbitrary pieces of paper and brute force, but it is a wealth nonetheless.

You take somewhere like Bangkok, and the citizens neither have the time of the Karen nor the money of the Americans. It isn't surprising that the animals are mistreated. They just don't have the ability to do anything about in their situation.