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Foie Gras

posted 17 years ago by J_D_fan
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Foie Gras is one of the most inhumane, horrible, and needless things the human race has ever invented. I'm veggie but I understand why people eat meat - it's what our ancestors have done for years (although that doesn't make it right) and it would have been the best source of protein to survive on when the human race first evolved. However, I'm baffled when I try to work out WHY we feel the need to torture these poor animals just to provide one tiny portion (even after all that force feeding) of a supposed "delicacy" which isn't enough to feed anyone! There's no point in it existing. It's disgraceful that chefs in the UK still continue to sell it. All that suffering just so you can have a tiny taste of something which may or may not be delicious. How *beep* selfish.

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[–] perfect_angel93 17 years ago

Tell me about it. I want to be a veggie but my mum cooks dinner and says i will have to cook for myself every night and buyt my own veggie food, so im not but i hate the whole fois gras thing anyway. Ages ago i had dinner in claridges with my parents for my 13th and my mum had fois gras and i tasted t and it tasted like fat. it was just so buttery and 'delicious' but i thought it was awful.

[–] mikei70 16 years ago

Way to stick by your principles.

I'm sitting here eating a bacon sandwich and laughing at your lack of conviction.

[–] ThePikey 16 years ago

I'd say that cluster bombs, landmines or nervegas are among the top of a list of inhumane, horrible and needless things the human race has ever invented. A list on which no food, however grotesque makes the top-100.
Have some perspective, please.

[–] defusethefire 16 years ago

vegetarians are terrible ... you can never truly enjoy food

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[–] cwr038 16 years ago

If you think foie gras is inhumane, don't eat it. Educate those who do in the manner in which it's "made." I won't eat veal (There's no rosé veal in the US) because the calves are kept inhumanely until their slaughter. I'd rather have a steak anyway.

[–] VulcanLogic 13 years ago

Veal crates are just now starting to be banned in the US. My state of Michigan banned crated veal, the 7th state to do so, in 2009, effective 2013. We have a large dairy industry, and male calves are a byproduct of that. So, there will be rosé veal here very soon. The ban is already effective in Maine, with California, Arizona, and Colorado to follow shortly.

As for foie gras, there's really no getting around the cruelty. But it's still quite tasty.

I have nothing else to say right now.

[–] dfanady 16 years ago

If you really, truly believe "Foie Gras is one of the most inhumane, horrible, and needless things the human race has ever invented", then you seriously need to get off IMDB, and read up on your world history.

And - as far as food goes, if you don't like it, nobody's forcing you to eat it. Cry me a river. More meat for me.

[–] SALTER-pt 15 years ago

And - as far as food goes, if you don't like it, nobody's forcing you to eat it

No, but they ARE forcefeeding ducks and geese for this inhumane bilge.

Ramsay squirmed when they were showing him how the despicable standards of pig-rearing in Europe - it's the height of hypocrisy for him to take issue with that, advocate humane rearing of animals, and then defend foie gras, a 'delicacy' made to cater for selfish scum like you.

Moron.

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[–] belovedDamozel 15 years ago

People need to know where their food comes from, I agree - but Foie Gras is not okay. It's just humans being creative in their cruelty. Sick.

[–] robinsfnm 15 years ago

parts of spain are doing cage free goose foie gras which is awesome

[–] lovemaddie 15 years ago

You probably shouldn't even be watching this show, period. This show shows Ramsay walking in with two dead carcasses. And every animal shown alive in this show will eventually get slaughtered anyway. And obviously Ramsay doesn't give a **** about Vegans, same with Anthony Bourdain (and no offense, I don't either).

It might be hard for Vegans to watch this show when the animals get killed the next day just to serve one tiny piece of meat. I suggest you get off of these cooking shows because it's all about meat baby.

I just watched an episode with those "Girls Aloud" chicks in there and unfortunately one of them is a Vegan. I dont think that bitch ate anything except for the dessert, while her friends enjoyed what could have been a fine meal (which unfortunately get screwed up by the firemen turned chefs).

I love this show but it is hard to watch sometimes, but I immediately ignore it and found this show great. I'm no Vegan though, and have no plans on ever becoming one.

I've already saw my Grandma slaughter two chickens in front of me when I was a kid. I don't think I want to see it again. Thank god they dont show it on the F Word... at least, not anymore.

[–] J_D_fan 13 years ago

Okay firstly, I stated in my OP that I understand people eating meat and take no issue with that. My point was that foie gras is UNNECESSARY.

The ratio of cruelty:benefit in eating meat, fish and poultry almost justifies eating them, but with foie gras the ratio is shifted so far in the wrong direction that it makes no moral sense whatsoever! You get a tiny amount of 'food' out of a lot of torture and cruelty, and so anyone who eats this atrociously labelled 'delicacy' is a soulless jerk, basically.

Also, fao:lovemaddie, I am vegetarian, not vegan. And I happen to love the F Word. Not all veggies are narrow minded crazies, some of us actually accept the ways of the world quite happily. The only thing I have a problem is is unnecessary cruelty to animals.

If you're hungry, shoot a cow, cook it, eat it.

If you're hungry, you DON'T stick a tube down a duck's throat, force feed it until it's stomach is fit to burst, for weeks and weeks, then eat its liver. Just kill the duck already, let it live it's life up until then to the full!

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[–] matthew_stallings 15 years ago

The fact is that Foie Gras is no more unkind then any other form of meat raising. It is a delecacy and the market(not hezbollah veg-heads) should be able to determine what sells and what does not. I run foie gras in my restaurant and it SELLS. Most people do not subscribe to your anti-good-food beliefs.......so leave us the $#@% alone!!

Love,
Chef Matt

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[–] FilmCuckoo 13 years ago

It is always amazing how the people who most often complain about food ethics, are vegetarians, and then claim to understand carnivoirs. A bit like making excuses, if you ask me. Another point is that there are is foie gras available where the geese were ethically over fed. In the end the whole point in traditional method of force feeding is simply to increase size of the liver, which makes the goose or duck liver to get that delicious, smooth and buttery texture, that makes foie gras a fantastic ingredient in cooking for those who love food in all of it's forms, not just the kind of grub that you get from plant life.

[–] quettesh 7 years ago

Veggie doesn't like Foie Gras! What a surprise!