Eating Animals to Save Them
A restaurant in Mesa, Arizona is selling lion meat burgers. Enter the animal rights activists:
Dr. Grey Stafford with the World Wildlife Zoo says that serving a threatened species sends the wrong message. "Of all the plentiful things to eat in this country, for someone to request that or to offer that... I was rather stunned," says Stafford.
... Animal rights advocates are expected to protest outside[the restaurant].
But why? Lions are listed as "threatened." The best way to save threatened and endangered species is to"¦eat them.
First, I just have to go there. If they would serve lion meat burritos, I could probably get TJIC to come down and visit.
Second, here are the awesome Mitchell and Webb making the same point, towards the end of this sketch-- animals we think are tasty never seem to go extinct.
