Anti-meat group asks owner to close Heart Attack Grill

A Washington, D.C.-based anti-meat advocacy group is asking the owner of a Las Vegas restaurant that prides itself on unhealthy meals to shut down after a customer suffered a medical episode and was hospitalized.

Officials for the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine said Thursday they sent a letter to Heart Attack Grill owner Jon Basso, asking him to "declare moral bankruptcy" and close the restaurant.

Susan Levin, the group’s director of nutrition education, said the incident should be a wake-up call that bypass operations aren’t funny.

Basso said he hasn’t received the letter. He previously expressed sorrow for the victim, an unidentified man in his 40s.

Basso said it wasn’t a stunt, and he felt bad that tourists in the restaurant at the time thought it was a joke.