Fight Turns Ugly Over Foie Gras

[Rhino]

Chicago Food Fight Turns Ugly Over Foie Gras

Thursday, May 11, 2006
By Michael Y. Park

When the Chicago city council decided to cut the fat out in late April, they weren’t talking about the governmental budget.

Instead, they were placing themselves at the forefront of a movement that has animal rights activists cheering and America’s gourmands shaking in their bibs.

The Chicago ordinance, passed nearly unanimously, gives Windy City restaurants 60 days — until the end of June — before they have to stop selling foie gras, the fattened liver of specially raised ducks and geese.

“I’m sure they’re going to take it and run with it,” said celebrated chef Rick Tramonto, of Tru and numerous other Chicago-area restaurants. “They’ll go after veal and lobsters and get to ban all of it until we’re all vegetarians.”

The decision immediately set off a firestorm of debate, prompting the de facto king of Chicago, Mayor Richard Daley, to disparage the new law as frivolous in light of the city’s problems with gangs, drugs and rising gas prices.

Many also note that Chicago — the “Hog Butcher for the World” — beat out famously animal-friendly California to the punch. In the autumn of 2004, California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger signed legislation that would end the sale of foie gras by 2012........http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,195039,00.html

[Rhino]

http://www.foxnews.com/images/203478/0_21_051006_ducks1.jpg

A man uses funneled pipe to force-feed a duck in Farmington, California.

Not a pretty picture, I gotta say.

[DeclinetoState]

http://www.foxnews.com/images/203478/0_21_051006_ducks1.jpg

A man uses funneled pipe to force-feed a duck in Farmington, California.

Not a pretty picture, I gotta say.

Here's what some of them look like afterward:

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This cruelty has got to be stopped!

[Jag Wife]

AAAAAAAHHH!!! MY EYES! MY EYES!!

:eek: :barfy: :barf: :gag: :hang: :yikes: :yuck:

[Lazarus]

:hahaha:

[DesertFox]

Fight Turns Ugly Over Foie Gras

That shit does it every time.

[BuckeyeMike]

http://www.foxnews.com/images/203478/0_21_051006_ducks1.jpg

A man uses funneled pipe to force-feed a duck in Farmington, California.

Not a pretty picture, I gotta say.

You sure that's not a chicken he's chokin'?

[Foquet]

As an animal lover, this type of crap sickens me. Beyond the pale. And also goes to show why the French are still the cavemen of Western Civilization.

From frog's legs to snails to a diseased liver of a goose, is there anything the French will not eat?

A shame that the trail to Berlin happened to be across French territory.

[Riverboat]

From frog's legs to snails to a diseased liver of a goose, is there anything the French will not eat? So far, nutria. But the culinary experts in Louisiana are working on a combination of spices to render that invasive rodent into something worth serving with a bottle of Pinot Noir.

[Foquet]

Well, I figured Osama Michael Moore's liver would serve a purpose. After all, it could feed half of Africa.

[Wyatt_Junker]

I was gonna say something real neat-o about Paris Hilton. I will refrain from the obvious and let your imagination fill in the gap.

[Foquet]

The frightening thing about that skank is that her IQ is higher then those of all of Paris and the DNC.

And at least her boobs are real. (Well, maybe) I would rather not find out.

I was gonna say something real neat-o about Paris Hilton. I will refrain from the obvious and let your imagination fill in the gap.

[Wyatt_Junker]

And at least her boobs are real. (Well, maybe) I would rather not found out.

http://www.osbguide.com/osb.html

[Foquet]

Broadband.

The way most Hollywood Starlets boobies were before they landed in CA.

In any case, we are off the subject of Foie Gras. Which sickens me to no end. :(

[DeclinetoState]

Well, I figured Osama Michael Moore's liver would serve a purpose. After all, it could feed half of Africa. Not to mention Ted Kennedy's liver.

[Foquet]

Old Ted's could feed the whole Solar System, with the Ceti Alpha Quandrant to be used as leftovers to feed them.

Not to mention Ted Kennedy's liver.

[Rink]

I think Kennedy's liver is well pickled by now.

[DoctorDoom]

One wonders what sadistic son of a bitch first had the idea of force-feeding geese to see what happens.

I have no love for PETA, but sometimes they're right.

The Pain and Suffering Behind Foie Gras

Foie gras, which is French for “fatty liver,” is made from the grotesquely enlarged livers of male ducks and geese. Kept in tiny wire cages, the birds have pipes repeatedly shoved down their throats and up to four pounds of grain and fat pumped into their stomachs every day. This cruel procedure often causes severe injuries or death. Those who survive the force-feeding suffer from a painful illness that causes their livers to swell to up to 10 times their normal size. Many birds become too sick to stand up. When the birds are slaughtered, their livers are sold for foie gras.Foie Gras: Delicacy of Despair (http://www.goveg.com/feat/foie/)

[BuckeyeMike]

Prolly the same guy that introduced proctology to the world!

[Foquet]

Agreed, good Doc.

No one can support this animal abuse.

One wonders what sadistic son of a bitch first had the idea of force-feeding geese to see what happens.

I have no love for PETA, but sometimes they're right.

[DeclinetoState]

I think Kennedy's liver is well pickled by now.

How does pickled liver taste, anyone?

Force-feeding anyone or anything other than an anorexic teenager on the brink of death is hard to defend, IMHO.