Ban Foie Gras!

[sweet soul]

Extreme cruelty is involved making a silly food that no one needs.
See skynews

[cobblers]

Sorry Sweet Soul, I like foie gras.

[sweet soul]

Do u like cruelty Cobbs. Give it up for your new years resolution ?
Go on. You can do it!

[flatandy]

Can't see a particularly good humanitarian case to be made for eating foie gras, but it's lovely lovely stuff so it shouldn't be banned.

I had a lovely, lovely veal chop last night, and the other half had a really tasty bit of springbok in a foie gras jus.

[cobblers]

Do I like cruelty? Well, I wouldn't inflict suffering on an animal for nothing. But then I do like foie gras.

[mids]

I've never had fois gras and posh people eat it so ban it I say!

[flatandy]

I never had you pegged as a fun hating class warrior, Mids.

Must be you Scottish Gordon Brown tendency coming to the fore.

[dwad]

Foie Gras done well is a real king of foods. I just can't get too upset about geese either. Those that want to ban it should really try it.

[VikingHumpingWitch]

Fcuk geese, they're vicious bastards and deserve everything they get. Foie gras is lovely.

[mids]

So we're all agreed then? Ban the filthy posh people's food. Huzzah! Man the barricades!

[Deleted]

Gavage, the force feeding of geese, is unpleasant and at times painful for the goose, especially when the tube goes adrift and pierces the beast's throat, but hey, who cares, we're all smart sophisticated gourmets. If you eat meat go visit an abbatoir and become an instant vegetarian.

[cheyenne]

Force feeding of anything is traumatic for the creature (I know, I had to force feed a poorly snake, it's just not nice), so I wouldn't eat foie gras, no matter how much Gordon Ramsay expounds its delights.

[sweet soul]

Force-Fed: Plea To Ban Foie Gras

Animal welfare campaigners are demanding a ban on the delicacy foie gras after uncovering evidence of cruelty to ducks and geese.


Foie gras, which translates as "fat liver", is often made from force fed animals
Investigations carried out by the charity Four Paws in Hungary and Bulgaria discovered animals suffering from the effects of force-feeding.

Campaigners said the force-fed foie gras often ends up in the UK.

Foie gras, which translates from French as "fat liver", is produced by the artificial fattening of the birds' livers. It is hugely popular in countries like France.

While production is banned in most of Europe, Hungary is the biggest producer on the continent and foie gras is a protected part of the country's heritage.
Four Paws investigators say they have received hundreds of death threats from farmers in Hungary as they have tried to highlight what goes on in foie gras farms.

One told Sky News: "It shows that people who do harm to animals have no problem doing harm to humans as well.

"Just imagine you are stuffed with food immediately, like 13kg of spaghetti in two seconds into your stomach. You will suffer and get disease.

"The birds get fever, they need antibiotics to survive, and then they create this fatty liver.

"It can be compared to an alcoholic, the same sort of diseased liver."

The Hungarian Poultry Association said hundreds of jobs would be lost if foie gras farming was banned.



Tesco sells foie gras in Hungary

Meanwhile, the supermarket Tesco has defended selling foie gras in its Hungarian stores when, like most major UK stores, it refuses to in Britain.

A Tesco spokesman said: "We operate a successful local business in Hungary, responding to the needs and wishes of our customers.

"While we always look to uphold the very important issue of animal welfare, we also need to balance different cultural attitudes - in this case respecting the expectations and values that exist in Hungary."

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[radge]

Nah i dig Fois Gras, i hardly ever eat it, but its nice. Animal rights folks dont really like me. I believe in protecting wild animals, but if they are farmed they have been farmed for our consumption, and without us they wouldnt even be alive so, they are our slaves!!! Bwahahahaha eat fois gras and be happy

[sweet soul]

this is why extemists get so flippin angry and take extreme measures.

[radge]

why cause they are nutters? And dont realise the world is for living and enjoying rather than pissing and whinging?

[sweet soul]

dunno if they are nutters or not

[radge]

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