Cruelty to geese?
Don Quixote on Jul 21 2012 at 8:47 am | Filed under: Uncategorized
As you may have heard, the state of California has banned foie gras. The state buys the argument that we shouldn’t be cruel to ducks or geese just to satisfy our desire for something good to eat. Apparently, it’s okay to kill animals and eat them (although I suppose that will become an issue at some point) but it’s not okay to hurt them first. Some restaurants have found ways around the ban but most restaurants have taken the delicacy off of the menu. So, what do you folks think? Is it possible to be cruel to a duck or a goose? And, assuming it is, is this sufficient reason for the government to interfere and ban the dish that results? Or, as I think, is this none of the government’s business?
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You gotta love a government that feels sorry for food but won’t lift a finger to stop the evisceration of humans in the womb!
Long live the compassion of the bien pensants!
As you may have heard, the state of California is clinically insane.
What a joke. I presume that the lawmakers who passed this never drove behind a poultry truck, or a hog truck on the road to the slaughter house. Not to mention having walked through a factory farm. We (society) routinely torture our food before we eat it in the name of efficiency and economy..
I used to have the experience I cite rather frequently when I fished in the Shenandoah Valley–a major poultry producing area. In fact, it was so disgusting that I was motivated to go near vegetarian for a time. (I did eat fish.) Turned out it was too hard for my wife to figure out the menus, so I drifted back. Clearly, my commitment was not too strong.
Eating animals does not bother me, but I would go to free range meat if it wasn’t so much trouble, and so expensive, to find.
JJ is certainly correct; but, to extend the thought their lunacy is very selective. Is that possible?
California, the premier sausage makers of America. No to foie gras and Yes to purchasing alcohol and cigarettes on EBT cards.
I have actually spent some time in the part of S.W. France where foie gras is raised and made. The ducks and geese are kept in very large free-range pens. When it is feeding time, they run toward, not away from, the feeding tubes. I have seen no indication that it bothers them in any way to be force fed. However, I do suspect that far too many self-proclaimed adults with the minds of children never got over the Disney-view of animal life they were force-fed by their culture.
So, I cause me zero concern to indulge my tastes with foie-gras now and then.
“it causes me” zero concern….
Danny, both forms work.
Some company wanted to get rid of the competition and this was a neat way to do so that only cost them some underaged hookers and bribes to California’s latest and best in politics. Everything else is just a smokescreen.
Hello! Geese and duck are still HUNTED. One more way to eliminate the desire or NEED to own a gun. “Brick by brick my people”.