Don't bitch about Foie Gras

[tamidon]

Chris Consentino of Incanto Restaurant(who has a cool blog doing fun stuff with food) writes a well thought out explanation in defense of foie gras. I happen to love the stuff.. He's been threatened by an anti foie group that has already done some very scary things to other restaurateurs. Attacking foie gras is like protesting fur...it's much easier to attack a very small group of rich people who wear fur than bikers who wear leather. Fur animals are cute while cows that we get our leather from are not. Trust me, if you saw where the majority of your meat comes from you'ld not worry about ducks eating the way nature built them.Most people don't eat foie but most everyone eats pork or chicken. That makes it easy to single out a small group to target.

Go read the letter

Comments

[tamidon.livejournal.com]

he also doesn't get into the cortisol results. Short form is that cortisol is a hormone produced when in pain or fear in most warm blooded animals. There is no rise in cortisol levels in the ducks when gavaged. The fact they line up for it is probably also a clue. Foie gras ducks are some of the best treated animals we eat and extremists go nuts about them

[quezz.livejournal.com]

If you eat veal, foie gras is a step waaaay down in cruelty from that. Hell, eggs depending on where you get them from could be worse than foie gras.

I like foie gras, BTW -- just don't want to eat it often for fear of what my arteries will say!

[tamidon.livejournal.com]

BTW, not overwhelmed with eggs cause girls doing chickens for their respective science fair projects and want to have egg salad with them. sorry