I need to go to Central Marche and get me a big fatty slab of foie gras this week. I really don't take kindly to people trying to tell me what I can and cannot eat. I don't particularly care for foie gras, but I want to eat some as a big fuck you to the "activists" (read: loser vegan troublemakers) who vandalized area fancy-pants restaurants in protest of their serving of foie gras.
In California, anyone can put anything on the ballot as a proposition with enough signatures. A few years ago, some animal rights fuckfarts managed to get horse meat outlawed in my home state. I don't think I've ever conscientiously eaten horse before, but damnit, if beef, pork, chicken, shellfish, venison, and other meats are totally legal and available, then why not horse? Horses aren't special. It takes a selfish, self-righteous asshole who takes identity politics way too far (ooh, identity politics! There's a blog topic I could really sink my teeth into) and make personal what other people do. Trying to get horse and foie gras banned is no different than trying to keep gay marriage illegal. It's just a bunch of busybodies trying to force their high and mighty world view on the public and using the law to get their way.
FUCK YOU, FOIS GRAS NAZIS!
Posted by Zerd at July 17, 2007 01:40 AMfoie gras is one of the few foods that i feel guilty about eating. mainly because the ducks are forcefed with a tube.. and i don't like the idea of my animals suffering all their lives before i eat them. same thing with veal. seems like unnecessary suffering.
but, i do eat them.
idealically, if prices were low enough, and restaurants cooperate, i would love my cows to dance through soft green grass, nuzzling each other contently, right to the second when their heads get chopped off. to be my delicious prime rib.
Posted by: ripresa at July 17, 2007 10:44 AMbut seriously, if you have a good recipe for foie gras, i'm all ears.
Posted by: ripresa at July 17, 2007 10:45 AMbut seriously, if you have a good recipe for foie gras, i'm all ears.
Posted by: ripresa at July 17, 2007 10:45 AMsometimes it's not the animal itself, but the way in which its meat is produced that elicits the outrage. for example, the veal and foie gras industries are infamously the most cruel to the animals they process. I have no idea how horse meat is produced, but perhaps it was the industry standards rather than the type of animal that resulted in the ban. in the end, of course, I agree that eating one type of animal is no worse than any other, which is why I don't eat any of them.
Posted by: loser vegan asshole at July 17, 2007 05:10 PMp.s. I'm the loser
Posted by: cm at July 17, 2007 05:19 PMfor some reason, the first connection that sprung to mind when thinking of the foie gras-making process was those girls in Mauritania being force-fed 5 gallons of camel's milk a day.
that said, I don't think that society can legislate everything.
Posted by: margaret at July 18, 2007 04:54 PMOne of the three horse-slaughtering plants in the nation is in my town, and I'm tired of hearing about it. I don't have an opinion, I'm just tired of hearing about it.
Posted by: Dave at July 18, 2007 05:15 PM