PURPLERIDER
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2012-07-14 10:06 AM |
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Ducks.
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COMMENT 297484
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2012-07-14 10:19 AM |
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Quack!
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COMMENT 297487P
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2012-07-14 10:20 AM |
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Make that 2 for the ducks. No man ever died for lack of foie gras.
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COMMENT 297489
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2012-07-14 10:28 AM |
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There are patients who have a legitimate need for medical foie gras and now are forced to buy it illegally in back alleys and slimy dealers.
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COMMENT 297495
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2012-07-14 10:36 AM |
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A good foie gras for me! No difference between stuffing geese and watching some of our human bretheren force fast-food down their own gullets at our fast-food establishments. Long live our own Julia Child - er - or did she die of obesity from too much foie gras? Ahhh... whatta way to go.
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COMMENT 297499
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2012-07-14 10:46 AM |
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Foie gras! Now I'll eat more of it just out of protest to our "nanny state". For those of you that like all these bans and overzealous legislation, something you like will no doubt be unnecessarily banned or restricted soon. That's the problem with banning things. When will it stop? BTW, this issue has been completely over-hyped incorrectly by the animal-rights crowd. Do some research. Feeding tubes are not uncomfortable or painful for the animals.
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COMMENT 297504
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2012-07-14 10:52 AM |
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Funny how the same conservatives who relished in a food law that was seen by some as anti-Asian (the shark fin ban) are opposed to a ban on foie gras, largely eaten by rich whites, as an example of "the nanny state." I'm for the ducks and the sharks. Most human beings need animal protein to survive, but that's no reason to be cruel or wasteful as we go about it.
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COMMENT 297509
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2012-07-14 10:58 AM |
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One more for the ducks, here. We don't need to be eating that stuff any way.
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ROGER DODGER
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2012-07-14 11:01 AM |
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Duck!
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COMMENT 297518
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2012-07-14 11:13 AM |
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goose!
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COMMENT 297521
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2012-07-14 11:16 AM |
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Ducks
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TWO ABBYS
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2012-07-14 11:34 AM |
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Another vote for the geese
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COMMENT 297533
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2012-07-14 11:41 AM |
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genuine marijuana or faux grass?
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COMMENT 297541
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2012-07-14 12:01 PM |
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This news has me smiling and smiling with happiness. It's about time. Poor fowl, to be so barbarically force fed! Let's hook you up, 499, to a feeding tube and force feed you until you can't walk or even sit up straight. And then we'll let you struggle to walk around, in your own excrement, for weeks on end. Bet YOU wouldn't be heading to the front of the line for another session with the tube. You need to go on Youtube (ha!) and see the footage of how these animals are tortured.
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COMMENT 297550
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2012-07-14 12:24 PM |
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Sorry, but when the end result of an animal's short life is to have it's head cut off and its feathers plucked and its guts ripped out and its parts dissected to feed us, it is entirely silly to require "humane" treatment up until that time. And the term "humane" should only be ascribed to humans.
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COMMENT 297499
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2012-07-14 12:34 PM |
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@504, this is 499. What makes you think I'm a conservative? I'm not. That's the point of being liberal. Also, I don't think you can compare the two laws. One relates to endangering an entire species of wild animals for a small body part. The other is raised for food, and is used for such as 550 so eloquently points out. So, maybe you should get off your high horses and leave the SB bubble every now and then. You might discover other cultures do things differently than the California legislature tells us to.
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COMMENT 297559
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2012-07-14 12:37 PM |
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100% Duck. 499 has NEVER had a tube down his throat or his would know it hurts.....
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COMMENT 297560
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2012-07-14 12:39 PM |
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I guess all you who chose ducks must get your meat from the grocery store where no animals have to suffer or die. What about the Asian Tea smoked duck dinner? Or how about the duck at The Dutch Gardens? Do you think that the liver should be discarded instead of being made into foie gras?
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COMMENT 297567
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2012-07-14 12:56 PM |
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I got all my ducks in a row. And I will not get off my high horse!
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COMMENT 297572
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2012-07-14 01:04 PM |
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Agenda 21. Look it up.
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SUMMERTIME
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2012-07-14 01:12 PM |
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DUCK
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ROGER DODGER
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2012-07-14 01:32 PM |
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I don't eat Duck..@560 Why do you have a problem with what people eat?
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COMMENT 297495
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2012-07-14 01:36 PM |
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A good foie gras for me! No difference between stuffing geese and watching some of our human bretheren force fast-food down their own gullets at our fast-food establishments. Long live our own Julia Child - er - or did she die of obesity from too much foie gras? Ahhh... whatta way to go. Signed,
Gourmand d'Gastronomie
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COMMENT 297587P
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2012-07-14 01:40 PM |
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297495: There is a difference - we (or most of us) do not eat human livers. And, 297550, "humane" means how humans should behave towards the non-human and human life not how that life behaves towards each other or humans. Ducks and geese. (And 560: foie gras, literally "fat liver", is not ordinary liver, but the livers of geese and ducks that are force fed for 12-18 days before being slaughtered. If, as some say, you are what you eat, then what are those who knowingly eat foie gras?)
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COMMENT 297613
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2012-07-14 03:03 PM |
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There's no need at all to subject other living creatures to this kind of treatment just to tickle the palate, it's just an (epicurean) snack and I hope (perhaps) we are waking up in this country to a respect for all life. I thought that in the Sixties too!
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COMMENT 297489
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2012-07-14 03:48 PM |
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The ducks do not suffer one bit from my experience.
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COMMENT 297656
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2012-07-14 04:20 PM |
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Yuuuuurrrreee desspiikable!!!!!
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COMMENT 297677
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2012-07-14 06:23 PM |
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Foie gras prohibition will have the same effect alcohol prohibition did. People will make their own, causing many health concerns. Smugglers will bring it in over the border. A new branch of law enforcement will spring up called "The Unduckables".
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COMMENT 297690P
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2012-07-14 07:18 PM |
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533 for the win. If Dog has wanted us to eat the internal organs, he would have put them on the outside, where we'd get to them before we were full. Fatty or not, liver is liver. Yuck.
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COMMENT 297763
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2012-07-15 08:00 AM |
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Good to know that food blogs are now linked here.
Looking forward to reading Cookie Jill next.
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COMMENT 297805
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2012-07-15 09:23 AM |
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It's a ridiculous ban. Like many banned substances, it makes me want to rebel and eat more (in fact, I had some on an amuse bouche in Portland this weekend and it was delicious).
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ANIMALLISTNER
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2012-07-15 11:23 AM |
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Its about time!
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COMMENT 297869
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2012-07-15 02:56 PM |
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Julia Child lived to 91, and was not obese ... she died of kidney failure. @297499 However you think of yourself, your attitude is libertarian/conservative, and like them your beliefs are not well aligned with reality. You are way overhyping the existence of bans and restrictions, and the notion that force feeding animals is not uncomfortable is laughable (and I'm not much of an animal rights advocate). As for high horses, that's what people lecturing others about other cultures and doing research are riding.
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COMMENT 297888P
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2012-07-15 05:43 PM |
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I don't eat any kind of liver. Yuck. Sounds like something parents would try to make their kids eat.
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SEEDLADY
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2012-07-18 07:20 AM |
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greasy duck liver...the nutritional equivalent of ...mayonnaise? protein to fat ratio...all wrong
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