This one's just golden. Welcome to the world we live in!!!!!
In the news today... Chicago votes to ban Pate de Foie Gras. I'm all for this one.
On the surface, it looks like a blatant disregard for our right to choose what we want to eat. Plunge a little deeper, however, and we find it to be a battlefront of restaurateurs and animal rights activists.
Now, I know what you're thinking (at least, I think I do...). You're thinking, "I'm getting about sick of these bird huggers getting in the way of everything.
Try this out for yourself.
The farms force feed the geese and ducks from an early age with metal tubes. They have no gag reflex which allows this to happen. However, some of these farms are literally force feeding to the point of choking these animals to death. Their livers swell to 10 times their normal size. It has been reported that some of the birds' livers are so swelled that lifting the birds causes the liver to rupture causing excruciating pain until the bird dies of internal hemorrhaging. Then, these often-times diseased livers are mixed with a few herbs and spices and packaged up to be served to the wealthy and upper-crust (serves 'em right).
Perhaps not all of the farms are so brutal, but let's just say you won't catch ME eating any Foie Gras. I have more respect for animals than I do humans. The circumstances behind this incident explain why. You won't catch a lion fattening up a lamb so it can dice it's liver up and serve it to it's friends.
"Oh, Leo, darling. I love what you've done with the cave. It's just lovely. By the way, what IS this lovely pate? Oh, lamb liver, you say. How original. I love it. You must give me your recipe." PLEASE.
If an animal is hungry, it chases, kills, and eats what it's after (occasionally, a cat will play with it's prey, but that's a different story). That's the circle of life and death. What these farms are doing to these geese... dare I say, Inhumane? No, no. Inhumane indicates humans being better. Let's say, InANIMANE instead.
Enough griping.
L8R
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