Your views on Foie Gras

[Thomas Micklewright]

Hey Guys.

Im very interesting in your views on Foie Gras (fatty liver) - follow link if you dont know about this controversial dish (The duck is force fed until its liver swells massively with fatty tissue).

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

Le Chardon is still serving this horrible dish, and it would be wonderful if we could encourgae them to remove it from the menu.

Franklins, EDT and Beauberry House have all agreed to stop serving Foie Gras.

What do people think about this?

Thanks

Thomas

[bawdy-nan]

I think it's delicious.

[Salsaboy]

It's a goose not a duck and I agree with bawdy - it is delicious.

[TillieTrotter]

I adore the taste but can't bring myself to eat it anymore unfortunately.

[dv1]

I think you need to get a life and start worrying about something important. If you don't like it, don't go there.

[milliemum]

Thomas, I absolutely agree. It's a disgusting practice. I feel often feel like I belong to another race from people that can abide this sort of cruelty. It's nothing about getting a life. It's about having some integrity and moral standing.

[dv1]

Yaaaaawn.

[milliemum]

Saaaaaaaaad

[Peckhamrye]

love it....

[milliemum]

:)

[bonniebird]

Its a disgusting practise, makes me really proud to be part of the human race, NOT! I don't understand why people who find this thread boring are even bothering to read it. Walk away from the thread, walk away from the thread...............

[maxxi]

I find it a little bland TBH and, like milk-fed veal, lacking in taste and texture. Rose veal and proper chicken liver pate are more my cup of tea. Oh, and a castrated calf on toast.

[Michael Palaeologus]

BUT have you tried Foie Gras, wrapped in milk fed baby cow (is there any other kind?) and wrapped in pastry? Lovely.

As is Panda steak and Gorilla scratchings. When eating the latter, go for the scratchings with nipples on for extra crunch. Leave the ones with hair on, not so nice.

[maxxi]

Michael Palaeologus Wrote:

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> BUT have you tried Foie Gras, wrapped in milk fed

> baby cow (is there any other kind?) and wrapped in

> pastry? Lovely.

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Have tried that at Heston's new place and it is made palatable by the shark's fin broth it is served alongside in case the pastry is too dry (i.e. made with too little black rhino lard) and must say that the dolphin-eyeball-with-pineapple-on-a-stick appetisers were a real treat.

[Thomas Micklewright]

Thanks for all the replies. Interesting to see the mixture of replies. Sorry to see people making jokes of animal abuse. Thought people may be a little bit mature although I suppose it is the 'internet effect'.

Would anyone here boycott a restaurant due to their choice of animals / animal farming?

Thanks

Thomas

[maxxi]

I was taking the piss because picking on a high end item is deliberately obscure and at the same time attention seeking - check out the farming practices that give rise to the cheap pork in the local supermarkets around here and you will see that foie gras pales into insignificance. Bacon sandwich?

ETA: As a Vegan Tom - why DID you pick on this? I mean what meat AREN'T you against?

[KidKruger]

Is there a vegetarian equivalent ?

[maxxi]

Forced Rhubarb?

[katie1997]

maxxi Wrote:

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> ETA: As a Vegan Tom - why DID you pick on this? I

> mean what meat AREN'T you against?

I could be totally wrong here but perhaps as some meat-eaters also abhor the practice involved for foie gras (as opposed to just veggies/vegans), maybe its easier to garner support for this initially and tackle other wider animal welfare issues further down the line? (Such as cheap supermarket pork and poor animal husbandry practiced?). I'm sure it doesn't mean that by picking on this that they advocate other meats instead?...

Edited to add; whoops didn't explain that very well, also meant that possiibly a lot of people are fairly ignorant of the widespread bad practiices involved in rearing and slaughtering of animals eg their supermarket pork, but that a lot of people would be familiar with - and more likely to support the boycott of a product such as foie gras.

[maxxi]

You're right some meat eaters do abhor the practice so they don't eat it. Others never have because it's so expensive - attack the meat-eaters or the wealthy but don't blanket-bomb in the hope of garnering support for a philosophy most people have no time for.

And as for targeting a French restaurant for serving a quintessentially French dish and trying to organise a boycott - well I find that more distasteful than foie gras, veal and sow crates.

ETA: *sow crates* - not the Bill & Ted philosophy guy.

[Mick Mac]

I liked foie gras - but having an idea of how it is made I'd be more than happy to settle for a good goose/duck liver pate or any other decent pate. So I don't order foie gras any more.

Im a real meat fan, but dont generally agree with animals being made to suffer extra hardship for our benefit.

But a good steak from a well looked after cow is hard to beat.

Thanks for raising this Thomas.

[silverfox]

Foie Gras with roast goose is yummy

[Frankito]

Tom, I am all for raising awareness and good on you for doing so as I am sure there are some people out there tucking into duck pate, blissfully unaware of the process that goes into making it.

However, personally, not sure if boycotting a restaurant that chooses to have it on the menu is asking a bit too much..

[ClareC]

I won't eat it due to the cruelty involved. I do eat meat though and never buy cheap meat.

[KidKruger]

My morals for choosing food > Your morals for choosing food