Shut your pie hole, you deshpicable ex-insect!
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.
What does he think we are? Chopped liver?
I demand to know where sKerry and Lovey stand on this important issue of our time!!
The liberals are at it again. Why don't they take the money they would spend on this pate' and donate it to some worthy cause for the children.
They are so pompous. OMG. LOL, Get over yourselves.
I might be wrong about this, but I think Martin Shhen is pro-life.
I sure am glad we don't have anything important to worry about in this country.
Let me start off by saying that I'm NOT an animal rights activist of any kind. I think PETA is a terrorist organization. I'm a carnivore first and foremost and love my meat. That being said...
I don't have a problem with this. If this procedure was done to produce a medicine that could save lives, then it's fine, but when done to produce a "luxury food" then I just feel that it's wrong.
I feel the same way about veal.
Shut your pie hole, you deshpicable ex-insect!
Paul needs to stop smoking grass.
I'd be willing to bet that the biggest consumers of foie gras, are limousine liberals, it sounds like metrosexual food if you ask me.
Judaism has the right idea on meat for me - you kill the animal more out of need, and with respect. With have a responsibility for these lesser beings.
That being said - the hell with not mixing meat and dairy - gimme my cheeseburger!
That's nasty. Glad I've never eaten the stuff.
PETA Alert, his dead wife was a founding member.
Thank you for saying this. I agree totally.
Who eats that sh*t other than the French (up theirs) and the hoity-toity celebs in Hollyweird.
I've never even tried this stuff. Has anybody here ever eaten it? Is it any good?
It's the same idiocy that forbids the sale of rare hamburgers, which too has many true believers among the so called conservatives who supposedly want the government out of their lives!
Someone wanting to make more money.
Who are the people who eat it?
It's absolutely delicious.
I've never bought any - because, to be honest, I really don't like the way the geese are force fed to make it. So I don't support the industry by buying it.
But when a friend served it at a dinner party, I wasn't going to be rude and not eat it.
It was yum.
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