Posted on 09/15/2017 11:49:25 AM PDT by C19fan
A federal appeals court on Friday upheld a California law that bans the sale of foie gras made by the force-feeding of ducks and geese.
A three-judge panel of the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, overturning a district judge’s injunction against the law, said California is free to enforce it.
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WHO THE HECK NEEDS FOI GRAS?
Only the elite liberals and Hollyweird stars.
Iron Chef Sakai was always using it in his competition dishes.
This has implications. Think commercial feedlots. Most poultry, hogs, dairy cows, and steers are “force fed” in commercial livestock operations.
This means little to me, because I’m an omnivore; I eat animals and vegetables, in various combinations. All other humans are the same way. They need both to survive (ever see a “healthy” looking vegan? Neither have I).
So if you like to eat the liver from a bird that was fed until it nearly popped, that’s your own business. Goose and duck too greasy anyway, unless you slow roast them, then they’re good.
I thought that law was already repealed or no longer in effect.
So when are they going to ban halal slaughter by Muslims? They basically torture animals to death. Where are you Humane Society, PETA, judges?
That’s racist against the French! I’m surprised they didn’t pass a ‘meanness to animals act’ and tax (everything) more.
I’ve never tasted foie gras, but now I want to have some just to thumb my nose at the Libtards. FREEDOM!!!
Please explain your “force fed” in regards to livestock. I gotta hear this.
Yeah, I’m a little curious about that also.
Using the derogatory term “force feeding” is either ignorant or dishonnest.
When I was a kid, I fed the ducks quite often at Grandpa’s farm. The ducks are not stressed at all when we do it, on the contrary, they crowed around us waiting to be “force fed”, they love it.
It’s because they are physiologically like that, when cold weathers come, they want to store calories in their liver as much as possible to survive or to migrate. Do the same thing to a chicken and it dies.
I looked this up, to find the real issue.
It’s interstate commerce. California banned not only the production, but the import of foie gras to or from California. As such, a judge ruled that the PORTION of the law which dealt with imports and exports of foie gras was preempted by the federal Poultry Products Inspection Act.
It’s NOT a victory for Constitutionalists, since this is precisely what is supposed to be disallowed by the Commerce clause, not some reckless expansion of the Commerce clause: the founders did not want the states to be able to launch trade wars against each other.
UH-OH! WE HAVE A SECOND AMENDMENT ISSUE, HERE! (Believe it or not!)
Looks like the foie gras producers used a dumb tactic. They claimed that a Congressional law super-ceded the state law. California responded that the Congressional law dealt with ingredients, but not how those ingredients were made, even though there was no legal way to produce those ingredients.
The foie-gras manufacturers failed to make the case that California had no right to regulate interstate commerce, choosing to make it an issue over the applicability of a statute, rather than a Constitutional issue.
Herein, the 9th circuit is allowing the regulation of interstate commerce to the complete DEATH of a form of that commerce.
“Force fed” is a misnomer. In a feedlot, the livestock are provided with an abundant food source. They eat until they get their fill. Same with geese. There is NO force feeding involved. They will eat all that they want. If they like what you give them, they’ll chow down until they’re nice and plump. These people get all butthurt over fatty goose livers, but don’t say squat about really fatty chicken livers. Cause de jour and all of that.
IOW, these people are full of shit up to their eyeballs.
Bet none of them ever killed and cleaned a chicken before either.
Not really. Those animals eat the food put in front of them. The geese and ducks have food shoved down their throats when they would not eat any more on their own to put extra fat in the liver. Not that the animal rights crowd isn't out to ban feedlots (and all animal husbandry) too.
Of course they do make duck and goose liver pate with regular animals as well.
Foie gras production involves sticking a tube down the goose’s throat and overfilling their stomach with a fatty concoction they would not ordinarily eat. Until their liver becomes enlarged and filled with fat.
This is not the same as sticking unlimited delicious food in a healthy animal’s face and letting them go at it.
Foie gras is purposely making an animal ill by pumping it’s stomach with poison several times per day. Then waiting until one of its organs is diseased enough to harvest.
I’m not opposed to eating animals but dont think they should be forced into illness and suffer every single day like these geese do. And I’m sure eating any organs from a sick animal is no good for you too...
Nooooooooooooooooooo!
Great Atkins food. Put it on a pork rind with a little chopped egg.
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