Please boycott Dunedin restaurant with lion on menu

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All - please see below.

Are you kidding? Is that legal? Has the SP times been contacted in regards to

their glowing review???

 

Spring

 

 

Why should man expect his prayer for mercy to be heard by What is above him when

he shows no mercy to what is under him?  ~Pierre Troubetzkoy

 

If we cut up beasts simply because they cannot prevent us and because we are

backing our own side in the struggle for existence, it is only logical to cut up

imbeciles, criminals, enemies, or capitalists for the same reasons.  ~C.S. Lewis

 

 

 

 

 

P Massard <pamassard

Bridget Breland <bridget.breland; Spring Muller

<spring_muller; JulieLynnStewart

Monday, July 7, 2008 10:51:04 AM

Please boycott Dunedin restaurant with lion on menu

 

 

Hi,

 

Not that you eat at Spoto's Steak Joint in Dunedin, but they are currently

serving South African lion chops.

 

According to South Africa's Campaign Against Canned Hunting, this lion meat

comes from the same farms that raise lions for canned hunts (hunts where lions

are shot in enclosed areas by tourists who pay $$$$).  The email I got from them

is below.

 

There was a glowing review of the restaurant in Saturday's St Pete Times,

unfortunately.

 

Anyway, if you know anyone who eats at Spoto's, please ask them not to and tell

them why :-)

 

Thanks,

Patricia the Lion Lover

 

 

chrisandbev <chrisandbev wrote:

Mon, 07 Jul 2008 10:47:56 +0200

" chrisandbev " <chrisandbev

Re: Info on lions being raised for their meat?

" Patricia Massard " <pmssrd1

CC: <n.phelps, <CWolf,

" Janet Frake " <jfrake, " Jennifer Felt " <Jfelt,

" Kelly Omeara " <KOmeara, " Linda Gilpin " <LGilpin,

" Megan Sewell " <msewell, " Neil Trent " <ntrent

 

 

Hi Patricia

 

Thanks for this, and although I cant find the article on your link owing to

my computer illiteracy, I assume it is the article by Tamara El-Khoury, a

copy of which was sent to us by a friend in USA.

 

You are quite correct that such lion meat can only have come from the canned

lion hunting industry in South Africa. All captive lion breeders in SA sell

their progeny for hunting because it is not only the only market for them,

but a very lucrative one. And they are always looking for 'add-ons' whereby

they can commercially exploit another aspect of canned lion breeding. The

current one is cub-petting, whereby the cute and cuddly stage is exploited

before the animal is old enough to be hunted. In this way they can

externalise the cost of rearing the victim. And now lion meat is being

marketed to make canned lion breeding ever more profitable.

 

We have video footage of canned lion hunts in SA and they are part of an

audio-visual presentation on DVD which details the cruelty, and offers

insight into how and why canned hunting is so big in SA. It seems to us

that we really need to expose the link between this type of restaurant and

the horrific cruelty at every stage of the lions lives once caught up in

this awful industry. Let us try to turn this report to advantage, and to

use it to raise public awareness in Florida/USA so that ethical customers

will know to boycott such restaurants. Ideally there should be protests

outside the restaurant to attract publicity. We can send you a copy of the

DVD as well as a number of pamphlets for handing out.

 

This has been copied to various people in HSUS who may have some ideas.

 

If you are 'game' (sorry) give us your postal address and we'll get the DVD

and other material off to you. It will take a couple of weeks from here

even by airmail.

 

Kind regards

 

Chris.

 

Chris Mercer

Campaign against Canned Hunting

www.cannedlion.co.za

PO Box 356 Wilderness

6560 South Africa