University of Arizona: BOYCOTT “Boca Tacos y Tequila” for selling lion meat tacos!
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This is yet another example of the horror that we inflict on our world. There are actually places that breed lions, slaughter them like cattle, and feed their meat to an ugly public. In this case that ugly public may patronize a joint called Boca Tacos y Tequila to buy tacos made from lions. Yes lions.
It comes as no surprise that this “Taquiera” is located in Tucson, Arizona, the gun capitol of America.
The owner, who have never eaten a “lion meat taco” is hoping to attract students from the University of Arizona.
I am convinced that U of A’s students are more enlightened than most of Arizona’s population and hope that they will forever boycott Boca Tacos y Tequila. Lion meat? What makes it worse is that in all likelihood the Perris, California killing farm that sells this meat will sell the meat of the cubs. After all, the older the lion the more tough the meat. Here is the sad story:
In the six months since it launched Exotic Taco Wednesdays, Boca Tacos y Tequila, a Tucson, Arizona eatery, has served up python, alligator, elk, kangaroo and rattlesnake.
Frog legs, turtle, duck and Rocky Mountain oysters have also made appearances.
“We’ve done just about anything we can get our hands on,” said owner Bryan Mazon. “Every Wednesday we do something a little bit different.”
Last week he announced on Boca’s Facebook page that the UA-area taco shop was accepting prepaid orders for African lion.
“I’ve gotten a lot of questions, like if it’s legal,” said Mazon, adding that very few lion tacos have been reserved so far. “We’re still a month out, too.”
According to the Food and Drug Administration, lion and other game meat can be sold as long as the species isn’t endangered.
“I’m doing the African lion to get my name out,” said Mazon, who used to be a salesman for City Meat and Provisions. “I’ve never tried it myself, but this one really caught my eye.”
Mazon said he had heard about a Mesa restaurant that served burgers made with African lion to correspond with the World Cup in South Africa last summer. Reservations sold out, but others picketed the restaurant.
Most of Boca’s exotic tacos range between $3 and $4. The lion tacos cost $8.75 apiece.
This is the first time Boca is pre-selling its tacos. But at $100 a pound of ground lion meat – $400 for a pound of tenderloin – it makes sense.
Mazon said he still expects to lose money on the lion, but is in it for exposure.
“In all reality, what I want is just people to know that I’m here,” he said. “That’s the way to do it. You can’t get these tacos anywhere else.”
The couple usually order 2 to 3 pounds of meat for Exotic Wednesdays, with grilled alligator being the best-seller.
But rattlesnake made an impact, too.
“It’s the one people want back the most,” Mazon said. “It was the first one, and it’s the one most talked about.”
The couple plan to order the lion meat from a farm in Perris, Calif., which is southeast of Los Angeles.
For the lion, “diners” will build their own Sonoran street-style taco. They can add cabbage, guacamole, pickled red onions and diced cucumbers and any of the six house-made salsas to the tacos.
“I’m 50 percent local Tucsonans and 50 percent students,” Mazon said. “We do gourmet tacos. Do I want to get more students? – sure.
Many thanks to the Arizona Star for their contribution.
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This is america we are not going to start a trend on the basis of innocent animals that do not need to be sacrificed for Human consuption!! This is not cool or acceptable and we don’t tolerate this type of publicity to your selfish needs to make your restaurant known!! Do it the real way and serve good normal food like everyone else!
OK, I am not outraged by this. I am bothered by it, as it is an escalation of humankind’s use of earth at the expense of others for our own purposes.
It is not less moral than eating a cow or a chicken, though (which coincidentally, I also will not do). It may be less sensible, as lions have not been sanctioned as food and it could threaten the species if they suddenly were on a larger scale.
One individual lion is no more deserving than one dog, one cat, or one chicken. Our human propensity to see the world and everything in it as our possessions to do with as we see fit may judge otherwise. I would not now try to address such a religious argument, as quarreling faiths can never defeat one another.
I will say that I am in favor of stopping this instance of barbarism if possible, but not on the grounds that it is an especially heinous moral violation to which we are unaccustomed. It is more of the same. Whether I nurture a poodle until it is old enough, then eat it or nurture a cow until it is old enough, and then eat it, it is all the same, scientifically speaking. Again, I like the company of poodles more than I like the company of cows. That does not make it more ethical to kill one of them over the other, because it happens to not be the one whose company I enjoy. The idea that the lives and welfare of animals closer to us personally merit kinder treatment is a form of racism that most of us are not yet evolved enough to see (no offense to those of you that may fall into this group. It is just an opinion that will probably not be commonly embraced for another fifty years or so. I am in the minority of thought, thus probably wrong, so just let me enjoy my simplistic view).
I realize that living things survive on the death of other living things. I have called exterminators before, so I would be a hypocrite if I placed myself above all of this. Humankind is an animal too, and part of the food chain, like it or not. I don’t like it. I don’t like it lion, dog, or cow. I will vote to curtail it anywhere it is practical, which is in the world of lions today; so if you need anything signed or mailed out, let me know and I will jump on board. I am with you in body and spirit.
goto the facebook page to air your gripe likes he even reads this.
http://www.facebook.com/pages/BOCA/120107378006237
Please let me know if I can help in any way.These people are idiots and I would boycott if I were close. Why not kittens or puppies while they are at it? No one should ever go there and there should be people in front of theplace with signs all day and night. PeacEful and lawful but BOYCOTT
https://madmikesamerica.com/2011/01/blackbirds-killed-by-usda-for-pooping-on-crops/
I personally feel that eating any free range animal (be it cattle, pig, goat or chicken) is better for the environment. There may be issues with large feedlots and such that need to be addressed with time but avoiding meat is defenetly not animal or environmentally friendly.
I am a native Tucsonan and I am outrage at the thought of raising lions to be killed and eaten. I am not a vegetarian but I eat only local free range or cruelty free meat, I believe if someone eats meat they must respect and cherish it because another creature lost its life to feed you, someone who uses an animals death to promote his business is scum. Just think for a moment it isn’t practical to have a free range lion farm so the only thing i can imagine is that these lion farms most likely keep the lions in cages similar to those that zoo animals are in probably even worse. When wil the human race stop broadening our horizons to eat more animals, can our gluttonous appetite to kill and devour our fellow mammals and other animals ever be quenched? I hope so.
Eating meat = violating Mother Earth
Wow. Thank you for filling a much-needed gap in the internet with this trite article. While I can appreciate your enthusiasm for not eating adorable creatures (which may or may not return the same favor to you, should you encounter one in the wild), the sensationalistic way in which you present this story is off-putting, and reeks of just plain bad journalism. Not only do you fail to correctly spell the name of the city which you apparently loathe so much (multiple times, might I add), and misspell common Spanish words, but you also somehow manage to label Tucson with the grossly inaccurate title of being the “gun-capital of America” – as if eating lions and owning guns were somehow directly correlated activities. Apparently you know nothing about Tucson, a sleepy, liberal blue metropolis in a sea of red. Oh, and all this is in addition to failing to quote the story which you have copied wholesale from an author at the Arizona Daily Star – but what’s a little plagiarism here and there, right? Perhaps you should consider taking a few journalism courses at the University of Arizona. If you do, come by Boca’s sometime and we can share some tacos.
Sue,
I did misspell “Tucson” and forgot to attribute the source of the original story, although it was not captured “wholesale.” Take a minute and compare the renditions.
I have made the necessary corrections and thank you for bringing these errors to my attention. From time to time I get caught up in the heat of passion and forget my manners. After all, were I eating at a restaurant in Tucson and at the table next to me someone was eating lion, I would probably forget my manners.
In all sincerity I thank you for stopping by, and the next time I’m in Arizona I would love to share a taco or two, provided it is not made of lion meat.
Peace….and I will never forget how to spell “Tucson.” 🙂
Tucson, Liberal? I lived there for 2 years and, while there are some liberal-minded people, it was one of the only cities that made me feel like I could get shot at any time for doing anything to cross anyone; from merging too fast in traffic to taking too long at the checkout line in a grocery store.
It also takes the same ignorance on a person’s part to own a gun as it does to eat lion flesh. Why not lump them both together? “Hey! I own a gun because I can.” goes hand-in-hand with, “I’m eating lion meat because I can!” The fact that this is occurring in Tucson, in no way surprises me.
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We have a group diverse individuals on Facebook who are actively seeking to stop Boca Tacos y Tequila from serving lion meat. We are doing so through civilized phone calls, e-mails, and letter writing. We have also contacted various media outlets. If you wish to lend your voice to our campaign, please join us!
http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_146356705422997
I don’t do the book of faces, but I will find another campaign to join instead. Thanks for letting us know there are groups out there doing this. This is just disgusting and I say this as a vegetarian who is going total vegan next month.
I am not sure who I dislike more, the slime who would raise them to be butchered and sold, the bastard marketing them just to “get himself known”, or the pathetic things that will buy and consume them just to say they did it. I guess the next month they will be grinding up fetuses.
I agree, it is really difficult to tell which is the worst slimeball. Have we really come to this point as a species? And we thought the Romans were decadent.
they already are, its called abortions
I echo the sentiments of Bob, above. There is something fundamentally vile about eating animals with paws, and not just because the Bible says not to.
Humans who do this are a special breed of degenerate.
All of our “food animals” should be given lives full of dignity and free of suffering. That is where my line is drawn.
Mike, I appreciate your sensibilities, but the lions undoubtedly live a better, kinder and more free life than virtually all other animals used for food. The torture and murder of cattle is impossible to watch, but that is kind compared to the horror of forced fed chicken factories that torture chicks for their short 6 week lives. Perhaps the worst torture are modern egg farms.
We identify with lions because of our love of cats (I share my home with three right now in my life long relationship with these magnificient creatures). But do we tolerate, no ENCOURGE, the torture of chickens and cattle and pigs because nature denied them a cuteness to appeal to humans?
Why draw a line at lions?
Bob while you certainly make good points I think we have to draw the line somewhere. Why not draw the line at eating lions?
Simply because of the fact that man genetically bred over hundreds, if not thousands of years for goats, pigs, cows, chickens to be a source of meat (and other things) for us. Lions are an endangered species, therefore they are protected. I believe this place is simply trying to drum up business by saying they are going to do this. I’m pretty sure that they are in the midst of being investigated as we speak by USDA & F&G and a slew of other agencies as well because of this.
This is so wrong.. These guys are falling off the face of the earth but let make it ok to serve them in resturants.. This is absolutly nasty.. Whats wrong with people.. This resturant should be closed down..