People Food Can Make Them Very Sick

This Memorial Day I took my son to the zoo. It was sunny, and bustling, and we walked miles. He saw zebras, chimpanzees, seals, an elephant, a sleeping lion, and we worked up an enormous appetite.

Here’s what the Los Angeles Zoo says online about feeding their animals:

“All of our animals are on very specific and regulated diets, and people food can make them very sick. ... So please, keep your food on the outside of their exhibits, and let the keepers give them the best care possible.”

While the zoo’s “keepers” take great care to ensure their animals receive balanced, nutritious meals, the many restaurants inside the zoo seem to sell nothing but garbage: burgers, fries, corn dogs, chicken nuggets, 20oz sodas, and though they also offer salads, they still ought to be ashamed.

And if you want to argue that at least walking around the zoo is good for you, just remember that you’ll be constantly passing vendor carts selling kettle corn, candied pecans, cotton candy, ice cream dots, gummie worms, churros…

Zoos are for families. Zoos are for children. Maybe those “keepers” should care about our kids as much as they care about their animals.