In honor of South Africa hosting the world cup, the Il Vinaio Restaurant near Phoenix, Arizona have been serving a lion burgers, for $21, served with spicy homemade crisps and roast corn on the cob, and rightfully causing quite a bit of backlash from animal rights activists, and even a bomb threat!
Apparently, according to the US Department of Agricultural, lion meat is uncommon but not illegal for consumption.
The owner of the restaurant in question, Cameron Selogie, says: "In Africa they do eat lions, so I assume if it's OK for Africans to eat lions then it should be OK for us. We thought that since the World Cup was in Africa that the lion burger might be interesting for some of our more adventurous customers. Most of them, when we tell them the facts, that this is farm raised and it doesn't hurt the endangered animals, seem pretty reasonable."
Personally, I think serving cooked lion just to honor a sport takes it a little too far, especially since lions are an endangered species. Yet, would I be contradicting myself if I said it was wrong because I am not vegan and I eat beef and pork? I do however, think that the backlash is caused by American culture, just like how we regularly redicule the Chinese for eating dogs. Question is - Why the need to put another animal species through nightmares when we already have more than enough to survive?
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