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As a tribute to the World Cup and its 2010 location in South Africa, a restaurant in the Phoenix area is temporarily serving lion burgers. Some of the details of this can be found here. Nothing about this story disturbs me except the part about animal rights activists being bothered by it. This isn’t the only restaurant in the world currently serving exotic animal meat in hamburger form. In fact, another restaurant in the Phoenix area, Stax Burger Bistro in Scottsdale, has a regular “Exotic Burger of the Day” which rotates from a long list of animals such as ostrich, kangaroo, boar, rabbit, and antelope.
After doing a few quick searches, I have found that Stax has never been threatened by animal rights groups for their use of exotic animals as menu items, so why are people outraged about the lion burgers a few miles away? I have no idea. If someone could please enlighten me and help me understand why protecting a lion is different from protecting an antelope or a kangaroo I would be greatly appreciative. Also, if a person truly loves animals and wants to protest to protect them, why do it only for a lion? Why aren’t these protesters complaining about average restaurants serving beef burgers and chicken sandwiches? Why aren’t they camped outside of fast food restaurants? Why single out one animal as being more deserving of protection from being served between buns? It is true that in our culture, beef and chicken are very popular and accepted as being food products, but does that change how the animals feel? It seems to me that consistency is the issue here. Animal rights activists have good intentions and I support their beliefs as I, too, passionately love animals. But why worry about one animal more than another?
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