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Phoenix Restaurant Serves Lion Burgers

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And now Selogie himself is questioning whether the meat was fair game. "I Serving African lion meat is perfectly legal, said Michael Herndon, a spokesman for the Food and Drug Administration. Tags: exotic meats phoenix arizona lion. I feel I was misled by this."

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Steps Towards Ending Factory Farming?

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A recent agreement between farmers and animal rights activists here is a rare compromise in the bitter and growing debate over large-scale, intensive methods of producing eggs and meat, and may well push farmers in other states to give ground, experts say.

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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. Tags: Current Affairs Ethics Language " Care2 "Wipeout animal cruelty animal rights lion meat.

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Henry Rollins to Host Weird New Show on National Geographic

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He visits Arizona's Road Kill Cafe, where the menu features not-so-exotic fare. Anything for ratings I guess. Excerpted from Reuters. Rollins will host "Animal Underworld," which features people who own exotic animals as well as those who eat them.

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Mylan

Animal Ethics

We went to graduate school together at the University of Arizona. I consider Mylan's essay " The Immorality of Eating Meat " the best thing I've read on the topic. Here is a profile of my friend and co-blogger Mylan Engel Jr. I didn't like Mylan at the time, and I'm sure he didn't like me. Mylan worked in epistemology.

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Animal Advocates' Successes Have Factory Farmers Running Scared

Animal Ethics

The proposition outlaws raising pregnant sows in gestation crates and raising calves in veal crates , making Arizona the first state in the Union to ban veal crates. To learn more about Arizona's precedent-setting victory for farm animals, see here. September 7, 2006, a bill banning the slaughter of horses for human consumption( H.R.

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