Chicago bans foie gras

"Anthony" <[email hidden]> wrote

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The Chicago city council has banned foie gras in city eateries. As
Mayor Daly says, they need to get a sense of priorities! I don't get
foie gras very often but I had it at my birthday dinner a couple of
weeks ago. Delicious!

I just saw that on the news (about the foie gras, not your dinner,
happy birthday to you! laugh), you gotta be kidding me, Chicago.
What, taking lessons on minding everyone's business from
NJ lawmakers?

nancy

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Nancy Young said:

"Anthony" <[email hidden]> wrote

Quoted message said:

The Chicago city council has banned foie gras in city eateries. As
Mayor Daly says, they need to get a sense of priorities! I don't get
foie gras very often but I had it at my birthday dinner a couple of
weeks ago. Delicious!

I just saw that on the news (about the foie gras, not your dinner,
happy birthday to you! laugh), you gotta be kidding me, Chicago.
What, taking lessons on minding everyone's business from
NJ lawmakers?

I'm pretty sure this is the same mayor who shut down, by tearing up
the runway, a small airport in the middle of the night, without telling
anyone it was going to happen, so pilots and their planes were actually
stuck there. Because he was worried about security. Funny how people
worry about a Cessna that can do very little damage, but keep O'Hare
open.

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Ranee

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"Anthony" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Quoted message said:

The Chicago city council has banned foie gras
in city eateries. As Mayor Daly says, they need
to get a sense of priorities! I don't get foie gras
very often but I had it at my birthday dinner a
couple of weeks ago. Delicious!

Huh. Bet Charlie Trotter's gonna be [censored].
-j

Nancy Young said:

"Anthony" <[email hidden]> wrote

Quoted message said:

The Chicago city council has banned foie gras in city eateries. As
Mayor Daly says, they need to get a sense of priorities! I don't get
foie gras very often but I had it at my birthday dinner a couple of
weeks ago. Delicious!

Have you ever seen how it is acquired?

http://www.gourmetcruelty.com/videos.php

Perhaps you think torturing animals is worth it.

http://www.hsus.org/farm_animals/factory_farms/foie_gras.html

Doesn't it make you feel special to know how much suffering went into
every "delicious" bite?

Quoted message said:

I just saw that on the news (about the foie gras, not your dinner,
happy birthday to you! laugh), you gotta be kidding me, Chicago.
What, taking lessons on minding everyone's business from
NJ lawmakers?

You should watch the movies too. By buying foie gras, you are in
effect torturing those geese. Too squeamish? I'm no raving animal
rights person. I think the PETA folks are kooks, but some things cross
the line of human decency.

Quoted message said:

nancy

--Bryan

Food Snob said:

Doesn't it make you feel special to know how much suffering went into
every "delicious" bite?

Quoted message said:

Nope, it was duck foie gras. If you want to be educated on the subject
I recommend the book Foie Gras - A Passion by Michael Ginor. And if
you really care about the suffering inflicted on animals in order to
feed humans I recommend Fast Food Nation.

Food Snob a écrit :

Quoted message said:

Nancy Young said:

"Anthony" <[email hidden]> wrote

Quoted message said:

The Chicago city council has banned foie gras in city eateries. As
Mayor Daly says, they need to get a sense of priorities! I don't get
foie gras very often but I had it at my birthday dinner a couple of
weeks ago. Delicious!

Have you ever seen how it is acquired?

http://www.gourmetcruelty.com/videos.php

To balance your bias, let us consider the opposite view:

http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foie_gras

Read from "Méthode de fabrication" down.

If you are opposed to cruelty to meat bearing animals, you should
concentrate on the lives of chickens. Geese have it good by
comparison.

Food Snob said:

You should watch the movies too. By buying foie gras, you are in
effect torturing those geese. Too squeamish? I'm no raving animal
rights person. I think the PETA folks are kooks, but some things cross
the line of human decency.

How do we know the ducks and geese really don't like it (or at
least don't feel much)? Heck, I'd love to gorge myself all day.

-sw

"Food Snob" <[email hidden]> wrote

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Have you ever seen how it is acquired?

http://www.gourmetcruelty.com/videos.php

Perhaps you think torturing animals is worth it.

http://www.hsus.org/farm_animals/factory_farms/foie_gras.html

Doesn't it make you feel special to know how much suffering went into
every "delicious" bite?

I've seen all about it. Not in person, of course. I don't delude
myself that any meat I eat had an easy life or death. Having said
that, I don't eat liver, so don't worry any geese are being force fed
on my account.

nancy

Anthony said:

The Chicago city council has banned foie gras in city eateries. As
Mayor Daly says, they need to get a sense of priorities!

stupid. The government can't even run the government..one contradiction
humping another.

Anthony said:

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

Nope, it was duck foie gras. If you want to be educated on the subject
I recommend the book Foie Gras - A Passion by Michael Ginor. And if
you really care about the suffering inflicted on animals in order to
feed humans I recommend Fast Food Nation.

Interesting piece about foie gras here:

http://www.jeremyjosephs.com/foiegras.htm

Ranee Mueller said:

In article <[email hidden]>,

Nancy Young said:

"Anthony" <[email hidden]> wrote

Quoted message said:

The Chicago city council has banned foie gras in city eateries. As
Mayor Daly says, they need to get a sense of priorities! I don't get
foie gras very often but I had it at my birthday dinner a couple of
weeks ago. Delicious!

I just saw that on the news (about the foie gras, not your dinner,
happy birthday to you! laugh), you gotta be kidding me, Chicago.
What, taking lessons on minding everyone's business from
NJ lawmakers?

I'm pretty sure this is the same mayor who shut down, by tearing up
the runway, a small airport in the middle of the night, without telling
anyone it was going to happen, so pilots and their planes were actually
stuck there. Because he was worried about security. Funny how people
worry about a Cessna that can do very little damage, but keep O'Hare
open.

That's another reason they call hizoner, "Richard Daly da Turd"

Best regards,
Bob

Oy! I go to start wearing glasses when i read, i read 'chicago bean foie
gras" and thought oh, a bean loaf recipe, i always like those.
---
JL

Nancy Young said:

"Anthony" <[email hidden]> wrote

Quoted message said:

The Chicago city council has banned foie gras in city eateries. As
Mayor Daly says, they need to get a sense of priorities! I don't get
foie gras very often but I had it at my birthday dinner a couple of
weeks ago. Delicious!

I just saw that on the news (about the foie gras, not your dinner,
happy birthday to you! laugh), you gotta be kidding me, Chicago.
What, taking lessons on minding everyone's business from
NJ lawmakers?

nancy

The Chicago city council are a bunch of ridiculous nannies.

That's another reason never to live there.

--Blair

Food Snob said:

Have you ever seen how it is acquired?

My goodness, they actually KILL a goose!

Quoted message said:

http://www.gourmetcruelty.com/videos.php

Perhaps you think torturing animals is worth it.

"Force feeding" isn't necessarily "torture". If you don't distend the
stomach beyond its limits, the bird will barely feel it. And if you
do, you're causing lossage of your product. So you don't.

Quoted message said:

http://www.hsus.org/farm_animals/factory_farms/foie_gras.html

What do I care if a duck's gets stretch-marks on its neck in the week
before I chop its head off and eat its guts?

Quoted message said:

Doesn't it make you feel special to know how much suffering went into
every "delicious" bite?

Doesn't it make you feel special to know how easily you're entrained by
the hyperbolic rhetoric of people who think that eating any animals is
cruel?

Quoted message said:

You should watch the movies too. By buying foie gras, you are in
effect torturing those geese.

We've established that it isn't "torture".

Quoted message said:

Too squeamish? I'm no raving animal
rights person. I think the PETA folks are kooks, but some things cross
the line of human decency.

Foie Gras isn't it.

--Blair

Nancy Young said:

Having said
that, I don't eat liver, so don't worry any geese are being force fed
on my account.

Liver!

Foie gras isn't liver!

It's sliced, seared fantasticness.

--Blair

"Blair P. Houghton" <[email hidden]> wrote

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Nancy Young said:

Having said
that, I don't eat liver, so don't worry any geese are being force fed
on my account.

Liver!

Foie gras isn't liver!

It's sliced, seared fantasticness.

(blushing) I'm embarrassed I didn't know that.

nancy

I can see it now.

Shifty men and [censored] women walking down to unmarked basement doors on
side streets, knocking in odd patterns, answering through the
peep-hole, "Goose Gossage sent me," then disappearing from view.

Gangs of chefs with violin cases, leaning out of speeding convertibles
to protect their territory from encroachment by rival gangs.

Firebombings at restaurant-supply stores.

Pretty soon, the DA spends all his time trying to root out corruption
in the Food and Beverage Control Board, and the President has to
threaten to send in agents from Fish and Wildlife to restore order...

It's all clear to me now. The Mayor wants Chicago to get its image
back, and an untenable prohibition is exactly the social stressor
needed...

--Blair

Blair P. Houghton said:

Nancy Young said:

Having said
that, I don't eat liver, so don't worry any geese are being force fed
on my account.

Liver!

Foie gras isn't liver!

It's butter.

-sw

Nancy Young said:

"Blair P. Houghton" wrote

Quoted message said:

Nancy Young said:

I don't eat liver, so don't worry any geese are being force fed
on my account.

Liver!

Foie gras isn't liver!

It's sliced, seared fantasticness.

(blushing) I'm embarrassed I didn't know that.

Well, no, yes, anatomically it's a liver; and morphologically it's
about 80% fat. But trust me; you eat just one properly-prepared one
and you'll never think of it as liver, or fat, ever again.

--Blair