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"foie gras" is goose liver pate and it is really yummy. My family has since stopped eating foie gras (for many years already) during Christmas and other special occasions because of the torture these geese gone through. So mom subsitute 'foie gras' with chicken liver pate.
For Ratri (BlueHeavens) and those who were follwing the animal torture topic, you would be happy to know another city has banned this delicacy.
| Quote: | CHICAGO (AFP) - Chicago has banned the sale of foie gras in its restaurants because city officials think the French delicacy is cruel to ducks and geese.
Under a city ordinance the ban will be imposed by September. Fines will range from 250 to 500 dollars for every day that a restaurant is caught serving the dish.
"It's terrible!" chef Didier Durand, proprietor of Cyrano's Bistro and a spokesman for the Illinois Restaurant Association, told AFP.
"In Chicago they banned smoking (in restaurants) now foie gras - what's next? Sex?"
The ban is an attack on personal freedom and will lower the "gastronomic level" of the city, Didier said.
Foie gras aficionados will now be forced to dine at home if they wish to indulge. A situation which could lead to a new type of Chicago speakeasy as fans find ways around the prohibition.
But proponents of the ban say that it is the city's job to prevent animal abuse.
"The laws that we adopt embody the values and mores of our constituents," said alderman Joe Moore who sponsored the ordinance and fought for months to gain its near-unanimous passage.
"They define what's right and wrong and they are a reflection of our culture and our culture does not condone cruelty and torture," he said in a telephone interview.
To convince his colleges, the alderman showed them graphic photographs and a video narrated by movie star Roger Moore that depicted how metal pipes are forced down the throats of geese and ducks so that their livers become engorged by up to 10 times the normal size.
"Foie gras, which means fatty liver, is a painful liver disease that should be treated by a veterinarian, but is instead cruelly and intentionally induced on foie gras factory farms throughout the world," the former James Bond actor said in the video.
"As revolting as it is to eat an animal's diseased organ, the cruel treatment of the birds is even more disturbing."
Chicago's city council has joined a growing animal rights crusade against the a dish that has been granted cultural heritage status by the French parliament.
The ban in Chicago -- which is known as 'Hogtown' because of its sprawling slaughter houses -- follows a bill introduced in California in 2004 that will impose a ban on the sale and production of foie gras in 2012.
Force-feeding birds has also been banned in 15 countries, including Germany, Italy, Israel and Britain, according to animal rights group Farm Sanctuary which runs the nofoiegras.org website.
Similar bans have been introduced in several other US states and Farm Sanctuary hopes Wednesday's victory will help grant the movement more credibility.
"This will legitimize it in the minds of other legislative bodies and it will hopefully get some traction," said Farm Sanctuary president Gene Bauston.
The Chicago city ordinance cited a number of reasons for banning the rich livers.
It called the practice "inhumane", cited media reports showing the "unethical practice" of producers, noted that a famous local chef had stopped serving it in his restaurants and cited a poll in which nearly 80 percent of Americans support a ban on force feeding birds.
There are only a dozen or so restaurants in Chicago that serve the pricey delicacy.
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| Posted: Fri Apr 28, 2006 11:57 am Post subject: |
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Whoopeeeeeeeee. I don't like any kind of livers anyway. So you only eat chicken liver ?? I do sometimes
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| Posted: Fri Apr 28, 2006 12:14 pm Post subject: |
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It's good if they have banned this delecacy,Atleast no animal will be extinct now! 
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| Posted: Fri Apr 28, 2006 3:54 pm Post subject: |
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I HAVE NEVER HAD THIS!! but yea ashirox, its good they banned it!
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"foie gras" is goose liver pate. It's an expensive French delicacy. Here's a picture of it:
This pate has been marinated, added brandy and spices and it's really yummy on toast. My mom used Chicken Liver instead and although the taste is different, we feel better having eaten something that wasn't tortured.
The goose or duck is force-fed with a metal tube shoved down its throat. It is force-fed with so much food that the liver expanded into an unhealthy size (10 times its normal size). Foie gras, which means fatty liver, is a painful liver disease that should be treated by a veterinarian, but is instead cruelly and intentionally induced on foie gras factory farms throughout the world. Then it is killed for the liver. We don't agree with such torture because it is very cruel.
Here is the picture of an enlarged liver:
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Animal cruelty !!!!!!!!!!!!!! I will never eat foie gras. I can't believe they torture them like that. So they die because the liver's too big ?? The putting the tube in must really hurt.
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| Posted: Sat Apr 29, 2006 1:56 pm Post subject: |
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This story is so SAD.i was jus wondering what is foie grass..Thanks for displaying the picture.
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| Posted: Sat Apr 29, 2006 2:46 pm Post subject: |
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I know... when I heard my dad explaining how these geese and ducks were tortured because the human wanted their liver - it's very, very cruel.
foie gras NOT GRASS ashirox!!!  LOL It's a french word. In English we call it goose liver pate. That's the only liver I eat when it's in the form of pate. |
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| Posted: Sat Apr 29, 2006 3:16 pm Post subject: |
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ewwwwwwwwwwww... :blekk:
what's inside on the chickin'?
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| Posted: Sat Apr 29, 2006 3:33 pm Post subject: |
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Bianca... please read the article! It's not chicken. It's a goose with its enlarged liver duh!  |
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| Posted: Sat Apr 29, 2006 3:35 pm Post subject: |
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It's a goose with its enlarged liver !Oh dear 
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| Posted: Sat Apr 29, 2006 5:23 pm Post subject: |
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Is goose that died with an oversized liver !!!!!!! Like in CSI, there was an episode where a guy died beacuse his heart was too big.
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| The ALLSTARSCLUB wrote: | | foie gras NOT GRASS ashirox!!! |
Ok Ok foie gras.
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We also learnt in our english lessons tht dodo's were extinct because sailors used to come to the mauritius islands to kill them.
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