1991/01/01

Foie Gras War

While it still remains a delicacy, foie gras becomes increasingly a topic of politics -- and political correctness -- and aggressive political activism. Opponents fight against the cruelty of le gavage; supporters point to science to disprove this claim. Is this being fought by sensitive animal rights activists or overzealous leftwingers who humanize animal issues at the expense of their own species?

Meanwhile, other animals suffer -- and disappear.


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posted by Juliette Rossant at 1/01/1991 01:00:00 AM

3 Comments:

Blogger JacquelineC said...

Most of us are far removed from the farming and production of our food. Many think that food just magically appears in grocers' cases born on styrofoam trays, hermetically sealed. Not so. One doesn't have to villify those who draw a line in a different place than we do. I am always reminded of the beer swilling, cigarette smoking vegan who dressed down a sweet harmless friend of mine for eating a burger.

Or the lecture on the five white deaths from a vegan in college with an affinity for quaaludes. He swore they were gray.

Oh well.

10:23 PM, April 24, 2006  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I am a foie gras lover. I love it's taste and used to have it at restaurants whenever on menu. Today while browsing the web I became aware of how it's made and read and saw lots about it. I came across reports on how it's produced and reading through it was so shocking to me that I decided never to eat foie gras again and become a supporter of banning foie gras. If one has to eat liver, surely there is other organic liver which is not made in such cruel way which is humanely produced and more healthy to eat!
I too believe that this ban is a symbolic and correct move against inhumane exploitation of helpless animals, especially when it's completely unnecessary.
I also loved lobster and stopped for the same reason.
My eating habits don't have to be a suffering for an animal. I recently got my first pet at home. It taught me a lot. Especially the fact that just because they don't talk it doesn't mean the don't feel. Animals are aware of love and cruelty as much as we are. Intelligence and speech doesn't give us the right to cause cruelty, on what doesn't speak.

Nor do I support crusades. A message can get through when properly presented, not when forced onto someone (e.g. the stories in previous post on vegans).

Do I agree with the Chicago foie gras ban? Yes I do, because if it wasn't for the ban, I would not have learned more about the production of foie gras and I would have been responsible for funding the cruelty on animals, in this case the ducks.

11:41 AM, November 15, 2006  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Maybe you read Super Chef's latest story on the ban attempt in York, England -- and how it relates to human torture: "Foie Gras War: From York to China?" The day human torture stops -- and the mass torture of animals -- is the day when I'll consider whether gavage even merits attention. Why don't you two previous commentators (above) work toward a little global perspective, instead of projecting personal, limited views first?

12:04 PM, January 25, 2007  

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