Topic: Animal Rebellion

The Student Union at the University of Stirling in Scotland voted to ban meat and dairy products from its campus food outlets by 2025. The move was pushed by the activist group Animal Rebellion to address the "climate emergency." Meanwhile, a new study in the Annals of Internal Medicine found little correlation between red meat consumption and health problems.

The hosts examine the possibility that the global news coverage of Cecil the Lion was a coordinated promotional push for the CBS summer series Zoo. They describe the show's premise involving animals rebelling against humans and note its poor critical reception and ratings despite the timely real-world controversy.