Critter News
OCTOBER 18, 2011
In eight months, the sale of foie gras will be banned in California. There was smoked foie gras, roasted foie gras, steamed foie gras and liquefied foie gras, injected into agnolotti. There was even a foie gras dessert: a brownie sundae with foie gras Chantilly.
Critter News
MARCH 2, 2012
So, he penned an open letter to California restaurants still serving foie gras. As you know, foie gras will be banned at the start of July this year.) Although his gastronomic reputation has, let's fact it, been marred due to his frozen food and canned soup lines, Spago founder and chef Wolfgang Puck still has some pull.
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Critter News
MAY 8, 2009
San Francisco supervisors have passed a resolution supporting city restaurants that remove foie gras from their menus. Foie gras is the liver of a duck or a goose that has been specially fattened by force feeding. Tags: meat california foie gras. I just find the whole description vile and gruesome.).
Critter News
MAY 22, 2012
Pro-foie gras chefs seem to think so. Here's hoping that they are right! Read about it here.
Critter News
APRIL 16, 2009
Here in Seattle, NARN (Northwest Animal Rights Network) has been staging protests at a local restaurant that serves foie gras. In addition, back in 2004, Governor Schwarzenegger signed a bill making foie gras illegal starting in 2012. Tags: animal cruelty california foie gras food.
Animal Ethics
APRIL 25, 2007
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.
Critter News
OCTOBER 25, 2009
Veal is especially cruel, even for factory farming, although now I think foie gras is a strong competitor. Bo Obama celebrated his birthday with a doghouse cake made out of veal. When I was still a meat-eater, the two foods I would not touch were veal and lamb. Certainly disappointed in the Obamas for such a poor choice of "cake."
Critter News
SEPTEMBER 22, 2009
Today, I've seen an elimination challenge involving snails and foie gras. Vegetarians are far more predominant than people who go to snooty French restaurants. And frankly, I'm not sure these chefs have the training to do anything that doesn't involve a baby animal. What the eff? I am so unimpressed by this pathetic bunch.
Animal Ethics
AUGUST 21, 2012
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. 13, 2012
Animal Person
MAY 11, 2009
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. restaurants by animal rights activists."
Animal Ethics
DECEMBER 14, 2007
Here is a Wall Street Journal column about foie gras.
Animal Ethics
SEPTEMBER 17, 2009
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.
Animal Ethics
SEPTEMBER 27, 2010
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.
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