Hunting the lion burger butcher

:puke:


"NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- A small Arizona restaurant found itself at the center of a nationwide backlash that included a bomb threat after it announced plans to offer lion burgers this week as part of a World Cup promotion.

But following the supply chain back to the mom-and-pop butcher that processed the alleged lion meat turns up an even more bizarre tale.

The story started when Cameron Selogie, owner of Il Vinaio restaurant in Mesa, Ariz., bought about 10 pounds of so-called African lion meat, planning to mix it with ground beef to make burgers honoring the FIFA World Cup's South African location. Selogie sent an e-mail newsletter to his restaurant's patrons advertising the special.

That newsletter -- which was the sole publicity Selogie had planned -- exploded into a media blitz when one of the e-mail recipients turned out to be an animal activist..."

http://money.cnn.com/2010/06/23/smallbusiness/world_cup_lion_burger/index.htm

So after all that, it read like it was from a source that is regulated and inspected and legal after all...

Unless I misread it.

I can't imagine that lion would be all that palatable, either. Most predators taste pretty bad.

I wouldn't eat it, and I'm pretty adventurous with food.

AIDS, Ebola, even rabies. The Unibomber ate coyote meat... the higher up the food change you go, the risker it gets.