What's that Pate that rich people eat called?

[guinnessdrinker]

For a goose, that's probably like a continuous orgasm.

not when you have a funnel forced down your throat with grains being forced down you funnell without a break. perhaps we should have pate de canuck fois gras and see hoe you like that. I personally do not want to eat this stuff for that reason and my carnivorous habits are well known.

 

[littlebabyjesus]

They're clever animals, geese, and there can be no doubt as to the extent of their suffering.

 

[rubbershoes]

gordon ramsay tasted some ethically produced foie gras on a recent show of his. the geese aren't force fed but just given as much food as they want .

gordon could tell the difference but i don't know if i would be able to . i'm gonna wait till i find the ethical stuff

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

not when you have a funnel forced down your throat with grains being forced down you funnell without a break. .

Why don't they suffocate?

I often think that some of those PETA videos are put-up jobs.

You'd get your best buck for a fattened goose liver at the prime stage. It's uneconomical to kill the goose prematurely by shoving something down its beak continuously.

 

[Sunray]

Its not a pate, pate is a mix of ingredients.

Its fucking disgraceful. Who the discovered Fois gra anyway? If there is justice in the cosmos then they have been constantly reincarnated as each and every goose.

 

[The Groke]

Some might after seeing your pics

Well it would probably bother me if it was a goose I knew personally but it is kinda hard to care about some random bird I have never met.




Fois gras is tasty, and yes it is an unpleasant method of production.


Some days I care, others I don't (usually the days where I have eaten it)

 

[guinnessdrinker]

Why don't they suffocate?

I often think that some of those PETA videos are put-up jobs.

You'd get your best buck for a fattened goose liver at the prime stage. It's uneconomical to kill the goose prematurely by shoving something down its beak continuously.

I don't watch PETA videos. I just can't be bothered. I saw it on french telly as a teenager and they weren't trying to hide anything, unlike now I suppose.

 

[zenie]

Do you eat meat?

Don't be facetious

 

[Mrs Miggins]

Who the discovered Fois gra anyway?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foie_gras

 

[guinnessdrinker]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foie_gras

from the link above:

Foie gras producers maintain that force feeding ducks and geese is not uncomfortable for the animals nor is it hazardous to their health

you have to laugh, really.

 

[selamlar]

Man, you think those photos are nasty, you want to see the inside of the Shiphams Paste Factory. Not good

However, both fois gras and shiphams paste are good. So there

 

[Mrs Miggins]

you have to laugh, really.

 

[Yetman]

All you foi gras eaters, cunts.

Hey ho though its only torture eh

 

[selamlar]

Its not torture. Ducks and geese ain't people.

 

[Yetman]

Its not torture. Ducks and geese ain't people.

Neither are gays or jews eh

 

[rutabowa]

The one where a goose has its throat scraped out or something to make the stuff?

it's not strictly speaking foie gras, it would be "paté de foie gras". Acual "foie gras" (ie not made into paté, just the actual "fat liver") is much more expensive and harder to get than the paté.

 

[Mrs Miggins]

Neither are gays or jews eh

 

[rutabowa]

Neither are gays or jews eh

er.

 

[fen_boy]

Neither are gays or jews eh

 

[Yetman]

Sorry, did make that point very well did I

What I meant was some people think its ok to torture animals like that for their pleasure (be it sport or 'unnecessary' food) as they are not people, they dont have feelings.

Similar things have happened where real people have experienced the same as their torturers didnt see them as people.

If something can feel pain then it can be tortured, that was my, admittedly, poorly put point

Sorry (Foi gras eaters are still cunts though )

 

[Mrs Miggins]

It's still not really the same though is it?

 

[rutabowa]

well i don't eat foie gras, i don't think i would know where to find it, but every time i go into a greasy spoon and have breakfast without checking on the origins of the meat, or whatever, then i am just as guilty of allowing animals to suffer. and i'm not really bothered enough to stop doing that.

 

[fen_boy]

Sorry, did make that point very well did I

What I meant was some people think its ok to torture animals like that for their pleasure (be it sport or 'unnecessary' food) as they are not people, they dont have feelings.

Similar things have happened where real people have experienced the same as their torturers didnt see them as people.

If something can feel pain then it can be tortured, that was my, admittedly, poorly put point

Sorry (Foi gras eaters are still cunts though )

Geese are not people - to equate the torture of people to the 'torture' of geese in foie gras production is pretty offensive IMO.

 

[rutabowa]

Similar things have happened where real people have experienced the same as their torturers didnt see them as people.

yeh but, they WERE people. whereas animals aren't. if you want to argue that we shoudl treat animals the same as people, that is a tricky one.

 

[Hocus Eye.]

it's not strictly speaking foie gras, it would be "paté de foie gras". Acual "foie gras" (ie not made into paté, just the actual "fat liver") is much more expensive and harder to get than the paté.

Well yes 'strictly speaking' that is true it is "pâté de foie gras", but the abbreviation to "fois gras" is very common (in so far as this food is common). I have never tried it, because it has never turned up where I have been eating. I wonder if force-fed geese are any worse off than a battery bird of any kind though. There is a lot of cruelty to animals in the food industry.

 

[rutabowa]

Well yes 'strictly speaking' that is true it is "pâté de foie gras", but the abbreviation to "fois gras" is very common

well that's wrong because foie gras shoudl mean the actual liver, if a restaurant is advertising pate de foie gras as foie gras it is lying.

 

[Yetman]

well i don't eat foie gras, i don't think i would know where to find it, but every time i go into a greasy spoon and have breakfast without checking on the origins of the meat, or whatever, then i am just as guilty of allowing animals to suffer. and i'm not really bothered enough to stop doing that.

Yes but when you KNOW that the animal has suffered horribly its a bit easier to make the choice whether to eat it or not

Geese are not people - to equate the torture of people to the 'torture' of geese in foie gras production is pretty offensive IMO.

Was just pointing out that its still torture, fair enough not on the same level (assuming we are the most important animal) but there are similar reasons for the justification of it and its still totally fucking unnecessary.

 

[Yetman]

yeh but, they WERE people. whereas animals aren't. if you want to argue that we shoudl treat animals the same as people, that is a tricky one.

We are all animals mate, humans just realised it.

We all have to eat, which is fair enough, but this sort of thing is totally unnecessary and the people who perpetuate it dont deserve to share the earth with the rest of the creatures living on it.

 

[rutabowa]

Yes but when you KNOW that the animal has suffered horribly its a bit easier to make the choice whether to eat it or not

well I can be 99% sure that if i buy cheap meat the animal will have suffered as much as a foie gras goose.

 

[rutabowa]

We are all animals mate, humans just realised it.

i'm not saying i think humans are better than any other animal by the way, i am just saying that all species of animals have a certain "fuck you" attitude to other spcies and humans are no better than the rest.