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Re: Syracuse: Help Take Foie Gras Cruelty Off the Menu
10 Jul 2008
1. Not all foie gras is made through force feeding. Duck raisers have found that if they wait until the winter harvest to slaughter the ducks they have a naturally fatty liver. Hence no need for force feeding.
2. Foie Gras costs about $30 a pound -- very expensive so when the article says that more than a 1000 restaurants have signed the petition I seriously doubt more than a 100 restuarants in ny serve or have served dishes with foie gras. You will only find this dish in the most expensive of restuarants so have more than a 1000 people signed the pledge? sure that's possible, but what does it matter if your local dennys, mcdonalds, street meat vender or olive garden signed this petition. They'd never use foie gras anyway.
3. some places have banned the force feeding of ducks -- but they have not banned foie gras. As they realize that it can be made ethically. If foie gras was banned restuarants and stores would simply change its name. "no no officer that's not foie gras -- its something new -- its blah gras
For more info check out the wikipedia entry on foie gras and this article below:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foie_gras
news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/6301715.stm
Re: Re: Syracuse: Help Take Foie Gras Cruelty Off the Menu
22 Jul 2008
The BBC article you link to describes a single company in Spain that provides "ethical foie gras". It then goes on to quote critics who say "without the force feeding, it is not foie gras." It seems very unlikely that the restaurants being picketed are not using force-fed geese.
The original article talks about activists across the United States and Canada, not just NY state. Surely there are 1000 restaurants in the two countries that serve foie gras.
Finally, you third point doesn't seem likely at all. NYC recently banned trans fats. Are you claiming that restaurants are now going to use margarine that contains trans fats, but say they're "wans mats?" I highly doubt the city will buy that. Why would it be different for foie gras? For that matter, where does the original article discuss a goventment ban on foie gras at all?
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