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.
Yep, I'm on Paul's side here, too.
I was so excited until I saw there were words AFTER "ban the French"......
Pate is overpriced liver paste anyway (although I'm happy to buy any good pate that's made in America - which I believe Marcel & Henri is - and I assume the mighty fact checkers of the blogs will give me the skinny if I'm wrong, bless them - have kept me from looking foolish more than I can say, and I'm grateful).
Same kind that produce those tender veal cutlets.
I once had foie gras, or should I say it once had me.
What a maroon!
I don't know but they must have stomach's of steel to watch it. That and they have to be a bit twisted.
McCartney seems to have too much time on his hands.
ditto
I think I'm with Paul on this one.
Makes you wonder how large Lumpy Riefenstahl's liver must be by now.
There is a place in NYC, run by chef Daniel Boulud called db bistro moderne, which serves a $34 hamburger. It is "...a juicy conglomeration ground beef, foie gras and braised short ribs," and has been described as "outrageous".
I've been meaning to try it, and I think in honor of Paul McCartney I will do so next week.
I'm with you....
One thing to let an animal live a decent life before you kill it and eat it...
Another to torture it daily so it gets an extra fatty liver.
Goes on my "Folks whose heads I'd like to pinch off" list.
It's delicious, but it can just as easily be made from regular goose livers. There is no need to treat the animal this way, except to yield a larger liver (more money).
I want more dolphin in my tuna!
"I grew up having nightmares of the horror of being pegged to the ground by the duck pond and covered in bread crumbs then left for the ducks to nibble to death."
Christina Applegate
Delicious.
Exactly right.
I see, YOU want to set the rules. Do you think horses like being saddled up? Do you think those cows that make your burgers would rather you ate chicken. This is ridiculous.
There is a(one) successful employer(jobs) who will either be wiped out by this law, or he will move his business to another state like many other businesses have fled CA.
This is PETA horsesh*t period, if you examine the process of creating your burger why doesn't that bother you?
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