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.

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Animal Person

MAY 17, 2009

Like "producing" foie gras? Like eating foie gras? 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? If they were pigs, would anyone care?

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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."

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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

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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."

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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.

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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.

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Animal Ethics

DECEMBER 14, 2007

Here is a Wall Street Journal column about foie gras.

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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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