Comments on: “Shameful, discouraging, tragic”

By: Amy Alkon

Amy Alkon — Sun, 12 Nov 2006 08:32:31 +0000

Of course, if the activists wanted to stop cruelty to animals, they’d go after factory farming to persuade (coerce, in their case?) big companies like Tyson, Perdue, and ConAgra, into being more humane. Foie gras ducks and geese are not raised inhumanely, if you’ll read the work of London Independent’s Andrew Gumbel and others on the topic. People just anthropomorphize the foie gras birds and demonize those raising them; perhaps because they’re easier to push around than big companies with big legal teams.

By: Sean P. O'Hara

Sean P. O'Hara — Fri, 10 Nov 2006 22:18:24 +0000

Here, here,

Let them eat Big Macs! The loss is on those who partake of the fast food king’s gluttony of transfat splendor.

By: Sean

Sean — Fri, 10 Nov 2006 21:12:40 +0000

There was a rather amusing bit about this in Bourdain’s Les Halles cookbook:

Foie Gras: The fattened liver of a goose or duck. Unfortunately, an endangered menu item with the advent of angry, twisted, humorless, anti-cruelty activists who’ve never had any kind of good sex or laughed heartily at a joke in their whole miserable lives and who are currently threatening and terrorizing chefs and their families to get the stuff banned. Likely to disappear from tables outside France in our lifetimes.