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On Wipeout and Lion Burgers

Animal Person

Finally, in my e-mailbox this morning, and probably in yours, was the Care2 newsletter, including a link to a column about a restaurant in Arizona that will soon serve burgers made from lion meat. They're from a legal farm in Illinois, so the law isn't the reason. I was curious about why it's so terrible to eat lions.

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Mylan

Animal Ethics

Years later, after he had gone off to teach at Northern Illinois University and I had gone off to teach at the University of Texas at Arlington, we discovered that we had a shared interest in animal rights. I consider Mylan's essay " The Immorality of Eating Meat " the best thing I've read on the topic.