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Get a Taste for Foie Gras

Written by PETA

Posted 12-07-2007

This one’s for our campaign to encourage Chicago to maintain its ban on foie gras. With a different slogan, it could probably also be pressed into service as a reminder to tip your waiters. Either way, I’m a big fan of it. It features the wonderful Brooke Johnson, and a plea to Chicago’s alderman to put a stop to the hideous practice of force-feeding ducks and geese so that rich people can pretend there’s something civilized about chewing on their livers. Check it out:

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Asia-Pacific, restaurants, Chicago, research, foie, brooke johnson, gras

Recent Comments

Micaeli Fleminger commented:

May 5, 2010 3:07 PM

I 3 that!! If only it were real and humans knew how it felt then maybe it would stop for the poor ducks and geese!
payman commented:

May 3, 2010 3:45 AM

great . its prefect ad. tanx to designers and people like you.
peter commented:

Apr 5, 2010 2:56 PM

I can't believe you people do not know how foie gras is making. If you like something and don't know what's behind it??? wth with you!!
Homer commented:

Jan 28, 2008 10:17 AM

Mmmmmh foie gras! I think foie gras tastes so good that we can afford to have some birds suffering... Isn't it worth the pain? I'd like to add that feeding the ducks like this is the only way to produce foie gras since we have to use their steatosis habilities.
Caboose commented:

Dec 13, 2007 12:07 AM

As ao alternative to Foi Gras why not feed duck normally until natural death?
V. Soto commented:

Dec 12, 2007 4:45 PM

Graphic and gets right to the point. Brilliant! PETA rules!
Carla commented:

Dec 12, 2007 1:59 PM

Way too Go Kate Chappelle!! You can pick up wonderful recipes right here on this website!
Mike Quinoa commented:

Dec 12, 2007 11:33 AM

As Susannah pointed out anything that causes a state of disease in an animal can never be regarded as humane treatment. Would you feel comfortable eating a day's food all in one sitting? That some people can delude themselves into thinking a diseased organ is a delicacy is laughable. They would be better off eating bird fecesat least a good source of B12.
Susannah S commented:

Dec 12, 2007 10:30 AM

Yes the chef was Anthony Bourdain I couldn't remember his name when I posted. I saw some of the show too and while the conditions shown were carefully edited and the birds seemed OK at the farm he visited there's nothing OK about forcefeeding the birds. No matter how "gently" done it might or might not be it does make them sick and it causes liver failure among other things. It also can rupture the bird's esophagus or cause abrasions in the throat and because their livers are compromised they are often toxic and can hardly move. It's a heavy price for the animals to pay. They live a short terrible life one that no animal should have to endure and all of that is done so that some jaded gourmand can have a "delicacy". Foie gras like fur requires the purchaser to totally ignore a life of suffering for a moment's "pleasure". To methere's no way it could ever be worth it.
Caboose commented:

Dec 12, 2007 6:21 AM

That looks like popcorn

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