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Foie Gras

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pâté de foie gras. Here is a New York Times story about goose-liver paste, a.k.a. Nobody with a conscience should eat this.

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Does Vick Deserve a Second Chance?

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Like "producing" foie gras? Like eating foie gras? Tags: Activism Current Affairs Ethics Gray Matters. Is fighting and killing dogs the same thing? Is Vick a special kind of creep for what he did? Is what he did like hunting? Like skinning a mink? Like clubbing a seal to death? Is it the dogs that are at issue?

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From Today's New York Times

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To the Editor: “ Some in California Skirt a Ban on Foie Gras ” (news article, Aug. 13) might give readers the impression that California chefs are free to serve foie gras as a complimentary side dish and so evade the state ban on sales. PETA urges everyone to avoid this product of cruelty to animals.

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On Small Victories

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A famous Ottawa restaurant removed foie gras from its menu after being pressured by activists. The removal of foie gras came after "months of nasty, anonymous phone calls, insulting e-mails, and noisy demonstrations outside. Tags: Activism Current Affairs Ethics Language. restaurants by animal rights activists."

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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

9 editorial “ Justice on the Farm ” describing a “visit to a duck farm in Sullivan County where workers toil through exhausting shifts to force feed poultry for foie gras” encapsulates one of the fundamental problems facing agriculture today: the perpetual chain of exploitation that occurs on many farms.

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The Politics of Meat

Animal Ethics

Here is a Wall Street Journal column about foie gras.

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Philip E. Devine on Demi-Vegetarianism

Animal Ethics

Some might argue that while eating meat is in general acceptable, we are under an obligation to abstain from meat produced in particularly harsh ways: from veal perhaps, or from lobster or from pâté de foie gras.