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[lsanderson]

Bans foie gras. $500 fine. Geese and ducks rejoice everywhere. Daley says "Let's get some priorities."More.

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[mia-mcdavid.livejournal.com]

Yes, and I'm sure I don't know what Charlie Trotter's is going to do, but there are some very nice restaurants in the suburbs . . .

[tammylc.livejournal.com]

Actually, some people blame Charlie for this whole shebang. He's notoriously and vocally anti-foie.

[lollardfish.livejournal.com]

Who needs foie gras when you can have cheese fries?

[tammylc.livejournal.com]

My thoughts exactly. Or chicken, for that matter.

[hunnythistle.livejournal.com]

If we really care about humane animal treatment, we should ban most pig farms and Tyson chicken farms. All farms should have free range animals, without excessive use of antibiotics and such.

I don't know about producers here in the States, but the ducks and geese on the farm we visited in France seemed pretty happy. They were free range and came running for their daily doses of overfeeding.

[minnehaha.livejournal.com]

Sad.

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[aelburr.livejournal.com]

Can't people just accept that the raising of livestock for food is never going to be a good experience for the livestock? No matter how well they live they are killed in their prime to be eaten. I can't support the practices of all producers, but I refuse to single out any single product other than beef as unsound. Even there it's the use of supposedly protected government land for certain producers I protest.

Foie Gras and Veal...

[lsanderson.livejournal.com]

Both tend to make people remember that the animal died for them. I'm not quite sure about the advantages of being raised well and killed vs the less advantageous of being raised poorly and killed.

I grew up on a farm. We butchered our own livestock and ate it. If you're going to eat it, as a rule of thumb, you don't mistreat it.