California Bans Foie Gras: Do You Like the Stuff?

I am on a chat site..... This is what this is.

What you don't seem to understand is that this leads to nothing. It's a ban on something that needs to be banned. Sometimes the government needs to step in to stop people thinking it's ok to do this kind of thing. Yes people will still do it, well we punish those people. Weed is illegal, but the difference is... that's not harming anyone.

Although why you are getting annoyed about this I don't know. Just because I disagree with you, you've gotten aggressive?

I totally agree. It has to be banned from every end possible. These people seem to just want more "freedom" and "wiggle room."

Maybe your up too late and passed your bedtime, not sure but as i read the conversation you are completely wrong and off topic. Then again you are too young to realize you don't know as much as you think you know. Why you wankers always seem to think you know so much about America is beyond me.

It's not past my bedtime. I'm at work. I finish work at 4am. It's a very slow evening. But this is irrelevant.. or even "off topic" as you put it.

But what me being from the UK has to do with any of this. Typical anti-anywhere-but-the-US response. When will Americans grow up :(

And you're arrogant at that. Not anti-anywhere. just anti-punk youth who think they know so much. Well, they do but they know so much that isn't true.

I don't understand what I've done to offend you? I've expressed my distaste for animal cruelty and tried to engage in a conversation about it. It's you who's jumped in with rude and arrogant comments. Not me.

Dude, she was trying to educate you on something and you wouldn't listen because you ''know so much more than everyone else''.
If any man thinks he knows anything, he knows nothing as yet he should know it.

No we were (or as it so happens, I was) trying to engage is a discussion. For some reason you lot decided to get all agressive about it. The only reason you think that I think I know everything, is that you agree with her. And can't possibly understand that she may well be "educating" me... but what she is educating me on is opinion. Not fact.

wrong again. little man.

Okay. I'm sure I'll get on with my life :) I just find it sad that people are as delusional and so pointlessly argumentative as yourself.

Dude, she was speaking fact. you were just blah blah blahing. STHU.

What fact? That banning produces demand? Then we shouldn't ban murder.

how rude!!!!! you are arrogant for calling her arrogant!!!! you pompous penguin!! so shut your fat beek and get to bed!!!

I'm sure you meant that for the young punk. Besides that you are a troll. BUH BYE.

He doesn't sound arrogant to me, or too young, or tired. He believes like most people. It should be banned from being served, sold, in possesion, or the disgusting force feeding.

Go cry to PETA not me!

thanks nancyisnow!! what you said is compleatly true!! im horrified how we as human can treat animals just for food!!;( and it should be banned every where!!!!!! and im not arrogant;) lol

I'm a vegetarian but I did try it as a child. It was good but it wasn't anything special. Better than chicken but not as good as steak. Anyway, the actual taste doesn't matter. It has to do with the fact some of the industry's most cruel practices are used(ie. forced feeding and liver enlargement) in the process. That's why it has been banned in quite a few places.

good job California

I'm sure it would work well in a sports stadium of some kind or maybe a golf course.

its not fake grass

It may not be, but I'm sure it can be used for that purpose.

Lol ok then :-)

I never tried it but i don't like cruelty to animals so I don't like the stuff.

I like how soda head totally avoids why they have banned foie gras and the cruelty they put the goose through to get the product. I say rather than outright banning it tax the people who can afford to eat this stuff and put the money towards stopping animal abuse. I mean it gives some semblance of being fair. http://blogs.discovery.com/.a...

What is it made of?

"Foie" means liver. Foie gras can be goose or duck liver.

Wut?

Never heard of it.

I haven't even had it. Though I love Braunschweiger. :)

There is nothing special about the taste it's more the mystique around it's production that gives it it's kudos. It's like truffles, they taste of raw mushroom to me. Foie Gras tastes like really fatty meat spread.

Really sad. Just take a look at the faces of those geese. And Where's the non-applicable selection instead of just NO and YES? Many people, including myself have never had the opportunity to try Foie Gras. I hear it's very expensive.

However, since many animals are abused to bring things we take for granted to our table like sausage, eggs, steak, hamburgers, Chicken, Chicken Marsala, spaghetti and meatballs, etc, we should ban everyone from eating all animals. Most of them are abused before you see the finished product. Vegetarians have been saying this for millenia.

If you don't believe me, come visit me, and I'll take you around the corner to the dairy farms, where the feces often smells like diarrhea, not just cow feces. Cows are put in small quarters with hardly room to walk around, and they are forced to walk around and lay in their own feces. They're fed god knows what. All they should be eating is grass. And they shouldn't be pumped up with drugs.

This post raises questions that no one bothered to bring up. 1. Why would you want to eat another animals's liver? Do people know what the function of the liver is? 2. Why would you want to eat force diseased geese?

And, hmm, I've become pescetarian, so Foie Gras is off my radar.

It is said, "Be careful what you say or it might bite you in the ass." Fish are no different from terrestrial animals. They experience as much discomfort and pain, and display all the emotions that other animals do. Although fish live in water, out of sight, for the aforementioned reasons, being a pescetarian becomes an unmoral and unacceptable dietary option. Also, consuming 'food' obtained from animals who live in aquatic environments, opens you up to greater amounts of contamination, i.e.. heavy metals, PCBs, etc., than the contamination you'll get from consuming land animals. The best lifestyle to follow is to be vegan, thereby avoiding subjecting any animal to abuse due to dietary choice, and to also avoiding subjecting yourself to contamination and disease of any kind.

Next stop for me? Vegetarian. The main reason I stopped eating mammal meat is because it is harder to digest and it is full of saturated fat.

Wish i knew how to spell the sound i make regarding the consumption of ANY inside parts! Yuck.....tbe ban is fine by me!

at first by looking at the picture i thought it was some kind of bread, now findoing out its a gross liver makes me wanna hurl.

I like it and I see nothing wrong with it, banning it is typical of PC liberal California.

Well it's not. It's abuse. If it was made properly and decently then fine, but it isn't.

It's not abuse, it's goose liver.

I know what it is. But the geese are force fed until they can no longer walk. That is abuse.