Posted on 09/24/2004 10:14:41 AM PDT by RetroSexual
Sir Paul McCartney has urged California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger to ban the French delicacy foie gras.
The former Beatle appealed to Mr Schwarzenegger in a letter to make California the first state to ban the pate made from geese and duck livers.
Other stars, including Martin Sheen, Kim Basinger and Chrissie Hynde, also urged him to approve a bill to outlaw the sale and production of foie gras
Foie Gras is made by force-feeding the birds to expand their livers.
Sir Paul was asked to write the letter by animal rights group Viva!-USA.
He said: "As you probably know, the public has clearly demonstrated that it supports a ban on this inhumane practice.
"There is clearly nothing humane about mechanically inducing disease in a bird by forcing a pipe down its throat and making it consume such an abnormal quantity of food that its liver expands many times its normal size."
Last month, California's state legislature approved a bill that would outlaw the sale and production of foie gras.
'Cruelty'
The bill is now sitting on Mr Schwarzenegger's desk awaiting his assent.
Sir Paul added: "I feel sure that your natural feelings of compassion will encourage you to sign this basic humane bill into law."
In a separate letter, celebrities including Casey Affleck, Ally Sheedy and Christina Applegate, also urged him to enact the bill.
"It is wrong to subject animals to this kind of cruelty to produce a luxury food item," they said.
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Bingo - we are better people if we do not so needlessly torture an animal.
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There's no torture involved. Hello, torturing the animal would cause it stress and reduce the quality of the meat. Sick animals do not produce good meat.
A little common sense, here, please.
Agree. Conditions on factory farms are truly appalling. The animals are treated more like machines than living creatures. There's more awareness of the issue, as you see more 'free-range' eggs for sale in the supermarkets.
foie gras?"
What is it? I hate Pate
Is it any good?
You're exactly right, but you can expect to be attacked here for saying so. There are a few people who are so blinded by their ideology that they've forgotten how to apply common sense to anything. If it's a lawsuit, it's automatically bad. If it involves protecting an animal from something, it's automatically PETA-loving extremism. Perspective is indeed key, so let the crap roll off your back when it arrives. I'm as genuinely conservative as anyone on this board, as is my wife who founded and runs an animal protection agency.
MM
It's tasty, alot like spotted owl liver.
Someone else can probably answer it better than I, but I believe that the reason the animals are starved for water is because it lowers the blood content, and in a slaughtered animal -- I think -- the blood must be drained before it is butchered. Makes sense to me.
Think of all the jobs created by the pate industry. Think of the freedom of property - these geese are the property of the owners.
This very thread illustrates the effectiveness of emotional appeals and agitation propaganda. "All I need to know I learned in the kindergarten", huh? And learned nothing more since then? Mommy, mommy, the bad man is hurting Bambi! Shame!
An ingrediant in Beff Wellington.....Great stuff
if you don't understand the implications of property that feels pain, then I can't help you.
But I hope someone can.
The difference is that a living thing is demonstrably suffering to make a delicacy. If an inanimate thing is involved, I'd agree.
Geese are gluttons and force feed themselves.
We preferred the wild goose livers in December and January versus early season goose. They had more time to stuff themselves after their migration.
I guess you are against fried chicken too. After all, chickens don't lead a very happy life before they arrive at the skillet. Right?
Mustard on fries....mmmmmm!
Worry about the important s**t first, Paul?
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Agree. Conditions on factory farms are truly appalling.
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Suffering from a little projection are we? How do you know it's apalling to a cow or a tureky? You would tell by a loss of weight and deteriorating health, both of which would reduce the quality of the product and so are avoided.
The purpose of a factory farm is to provide quality meat at a cheap price. Only healthy animals give quality meat. Animals are only healthy when treated properly.
Engage your brain.
A chciken need not live the horrid life that a foie gras goose 'lives.' Again - no needless torture. You can raise a chicken just fine, far a as chickens go, and then kill iand eat. You can't make foie gras without torturing the animal. THat's wrong.
...impale them on a blunt wooden pole, coat them with a slimy gooey mess, and fry them while still alive...
...just for human junk-food consumption. You'd have to be cruel and inhumane not to hear their cream-filled screaming when they hit that hot oil.
Please help me stop this senseless slaughter of our wild Twinkie herds, and buy a different snack cake instead.
OK that looks foul.
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