Feds Tell Court They Can Decide What You Eat

[Rupert Pupkin]

Originally Posted by dellinger63

It's already been done locally. The Chicago city council outlawed foie gras last year.

I think that when it comes to animal cruelty, the government needs to get involved. The making of foie gras is very cruel. They force feed these animals with a tube down their throat to make their liver the size of a grape-fruit.

Here is some information about how foie gras is made:

"Foie gras, French for "fatty liver," is made from the grotesquely enlarged livers of male ducks and geese. The birds are kept in tiny wire cages or packed into sheds. Pipes are repeatedly shoved down the birds' throats, and up to 4 pounds of grain and fat are pumped into their stomachs two or three times every day. The pipes puncture many birds' throats, sometimes causing the animals to bleed to death. This cruel procedure causes the birds' livers to become diseased and swell to up to 10 times their normal size. Many birds become too sick to stand up. The birds who survive the force-feeding are killed, and their livers are sold for foie gras."

That is cruelty to animals. That should be illegal. IMO.

http://www.goveg.com/feat/foie/

[Antitrust32]

I have read that, while what they do to the ducks / geese to make the Foie gras SOUNDS very cruel to humans.. it does not actually cause the animal any pain.

[Rupert Pupkin]

Originally Posted by Antitrust32

I have read that, while what they do to the ducks / geese to make the Foie gras SOUNDS very cruel to humans.. it does not actually cause the animal any pain.

How do you know that it doesn't cause them pain? I find that very hard to believe. Having a tube shoved down their throat can't feel good.

[Antitrust32]

Originally Posted by Rupert Pupkin

How do you know that it doesn't cause them pain? I find that very hard to believe. Having a tube shoved down their throat can't feel good.

it said they have no gag reflex's and that the esphogus or whatever has something coating it and they dont feel any pain.

[Rupert Pupkin]

Originally Posted by Antitrust32

it said they have no gag reflex's and that the esphogus or whatever has something coating it and they dont feel any pain.

Even if that is true and it doesn't really hurt their throat, that still does not sound like humane treatment to be stuck in a tiny cage, and force-fed through a tube until their liver swells up to 10x bigger than it should be.

Do you how many of these animals are sickly and die from this? I don't know the number but I'm sure it is astronomically higher than for geese that are cared for in a normal way.

[brianwspencer]

Originally Posted by Rupert Pupkin

Even if that is true and it doesn't really hurt their throat, that still does not sound like humane treatment to be stuck in a tiny cage, and force-fed through a tube until their liver swells up to 10x bigger than it should be.

Do you how many of these animals are sickly and die from this? I don't know the number but I'm sure it is astronomically higher than for geese that are cared for in a normal way.

Have you seen factory farmed chickens?

Their breasts are ridiculously bigger than natural, thanks to the way they're raised.

[Cannon Shell]

Originally Posted by brianwspencer

Their breasts are ridiculously bigger than natural, thanks to the way they're raised.

hey it works for strippers...

[Rupert Pupkin]

Originally Posted by brianwspencer

Have you seen factory farmed chickens?

Their breasts are ridiculously bigger than natural, thanks to the way they're raised.

Yes, that is true. That is why I prefer free-range chicken. It's more expensive but it's much healthier and the animals have a much better life.