"Pet" Pot Pie Tuesdays At Mission Beach Cafe

"Pet" Pot Pie Tuesdays At Mission Beach Cafe
Tue, 2009-06-23 20:13

Yet another San Francisco restaurant tries in vain to be cool.
Mission Beach Cafe drops a stinky load with their choice of rabbit meat pies on Tuesdays. I'm not so thrilled with the duck pie either, but I digress...

In their efforts to appear important and trendy, some chefs in San Francisco (the city named after St. Francis, the patron Saint of Animals)are hopping onto the supposedly green,organic, slow-food movement. Factory farming is an atrocity that must stop, but there's nothing humane or compassionate about killing an animal---especially bunnies--- one of America's most beloved and popular pets.

True, rabbits are in some ways "greener" than cows (they don't fart as much). But then again, rabbits do eat their poop in one of nature's most efficient examples of recycling and self-sustainability.

So,people who eat rabbit also eat poo. Even covered with a fancy sauce, it's just meat with poo---which is kind of higher on the yuckiness factor.

It's also so last minute to think that it's innovative, creative, green and "organic" to offer bunny on the menu.

Please. Let's be real. If you're serving or ordering bunny meat, you just want an excuse to eat something everyone (including you) already knows on some level you shouldn't actually be eating. Serving a sentient, intelligent companion animal is just cruel and gross. Yes, in China, Italy, France and other countries they eat rabbit. They also eat all kinds of critters that would never show up on American dinner plates.

Yet, we're not seeing horsemeat on restaurant menus anymore, nor do we see guinea pigs, rats, dogs, roaches,rooster testicles or other exotic delights. And by the way, the rabbit meat on restaurant menus is not at all exotic.

In fact, a "meat rabbit" is EXACTLY the same breed of rabbit that you buy at a pet store or adopt from a shelter. They bond with you and their mates for life, learn their names, use a litter box like a cat and are as sensitive and intelligent as a cat or a dog. Yet, most people aren't aware that rabbits are not even protected by the basic laws of care and humane slaughter given to cows and pigs.

When you bite into a bunny you are swallowing a whole lot of cruelty and that is not very green.

No one is saying you have to be a vegetarian. There's an abundance of high protein sources out there without needing to breed and create new animals to feed and then slaughter.Think of how all that water and feed could be used instead to help poor countries!

Ok, so it might take some getting used to, but here's an idea that might solve two resource problems at once.How green would that be that?!

The Humane Society of The United States estimates that animal shelters care for 6-8 million dogs and cats every year in the United States. Approximately 3-4 million of these animals are euthanized. It can't be very green to have all these high protein animals killed and filling up landfills. Don't we need those landfills for our plastics and garbage?

Cats and dogs are already a delicacy in many other countries---just like rabbits. Here in America people just make a distinction between the animals they love and the animals they eat. Therefore, it only seems logical to utilize, also known as "eat" existing resources, rather than creating new ones.

Personally, I'm sticking with tofu and veggies, but I don't think it's my place to tell you not to eat meat. Though, you might want to pass on Mission Beach Cafe.