California Restaurants Defy Foie Gras Ban: Does California Have Too Many Laws?
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2012/07/10 22:00:00
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California has earned a reputation as the "Left Coast," in more ways than one. Even Wikipedia has an entry that defines California as the "Left Coast": "Left Coast is a political expression that implies that the West Coast of the United States leans politically to the left or the expression can refer to states that lean politically left."
Some Californians argue that the state's government went too far in banning foie gras. California banned the food product made of liver of a duck or goose, because of its process of force-feeding the animal.
The Orange County Register reported that Antoine Price, owner of Cafe Mimosa in San Clemente, defied the ban, which went into effect on July 1, 2012. Mr. Price created a dish called, "Foie You!" and claimed, "They can lock me up if they want. I don't mind."
The Presidio Social Club (PSC) in San Francisco also defied the ban -- but on a different legal basis. The PSC claims that California law doesn't have jurisdiction over the restaurant because it sits on federal land not subject state laws. The PSC issued a press statement that read: “PSC will be celebrating two important independences this July: Bastille Day for the French, and the freedom to enjoy Foie Gras for Californians."
FOXNEWS.COM reports:
Some Californians argue that the state's government went too far in banning foie gras. California banned the food product made of liver of a duck or goose, because of its process of force-feeding the animal.
The Orange County Register reported that Antoine Price, owner of Cafe Mimosa in San Clemente, defied the ban, which went into effect on July 1, 2012. Mr. Price created a dish called, "Foie You!" and claimed, "They can lock me up if they want. I don't mind."
The Presidio Social Club (PSC) in San Francisco also defied the ban -- but on a different legal basis. The PSC claims that California law doesn't have jurisdiction over the restaurant because it sits on federal land not subject state laws. The PSC issued a press statement that read: “PSC will be celebrating two important independences this July: Bastille Day for the French, and the freedom to enjoy Foie Gras for Californians."
FOXNEWS.COM reports:
California may have banned foie gras, but soon you will be able to dine on the duck liver delicacy in one San Francisco restaurant.
Read More: http://www.foxnews.com/leisure/2012/07/10/restaura...
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+15This ban is not an example of a "nanny state." It is about preventing the abusive industrialized practices that many factory farms use. This law is about stopping animal abuse, and the profiting from it.
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They only did this to gain a few votes and to be able to skim some extra profits in the form of fines from restaurateurs.
From an animal rights perspective, this is fraught with unintended consequences.
"Goose and duck are raised in free range."
Sanitary conditions at the California foie gras operation were so poor when an investigation was conducted in 2002-2003 that videotape taken at the time appears to show floors covered with feces and regurgitated food and rats running freely (Bott, 2003; Huemer, 2003; Parme, 2003). An eyewitness account documented rats chewing on ducks too weak to defend themselves (Huemer, 2003). Evidence of similar injuries was seen on several other ducks (Huemer, 2003; KGO-TV, 2003; Moore, 2003). News reports noted that video and photographs from the investigation showed images of injured birds with blood on their feathers (Severson, 2003). Likewise, eyewitnesses at the New York operation report wading through floors covered in feces (Shapiro, 2004) and seeing cage floors and cage bars covered in a sludge of feces, regurgitation, and feathers (Blum SJ, 2004).
"Have a look at the way they eat in nature, when they eat a fish, they overfeed themselves"
First, while some geese and ducks do put on fat stores for migration, the Muscov...
"Goose and duck are raised in free range."
Sanitary conditions at the California foie gras operation were so poor when an investigation was conducted in 2002-2003 that videotape taken at the time appears to show floors covered with feces and regurgitated food and rats running freely (Bott, 2003; Huemer, 2003; Parme, 2003). An eyewitness account documented rats chewing on ducks too weak to defend themselves (Huemer, 2003). Evidence of similar injuries was seen on several other ducks (Huemer, 2003; KGO-TV, 2003; Moore, 2003). News reports noted that video and photographs from the investigation showed images of injured birds with blood on their feathers (Severson, 2003). Likewise, eyewitnesses at the New York operation report wading through floors covered in feces (Shapiro, 2004) and seeing cage floors and cage bars covered in a sludge of feces, regurgitation, and feathers (Blum SJ, 2004).
"Have a look at the way they eat in nature, when they eat a fish, they overfeed themselves"
First, while some geese and ducks do put on fat stores for migration, the Muscovy duck is a tropical bird that does not migrate in the wild. The Pekin duck (which the Muscovy is crossed with to produce the Mulard duck commonly used in foie gras production) is completely domesticated and incapable of flying. Therefore, "whilst the domestic goose might well be adapted to store food before migration, it is less likely that a cross between the domestic duck and the Muscovy duck, the Mulard, has such a potential for food" (SCAHAW, 1998, p. 26).
From July 1998 through the end of 2009, PETA killed over 23000 dogs, cats, and other companion animals. (see http://www.petakillsanimals.c...
And they got the foie gras industry badly injured by this law. On the other end, nothing gets done for Chicken in cage, or broken legs when they grow too much weight because hormones, or cows industry in north california...
And those informations you're exposing just shows a couple of bad farmer, why not getting those farmer to stop instead of killing whole CA industry?
This is the result of an endogenous intoxication due to the hepatic impairment; the liver can no longer play its role as a circulatory filter. As a result, various metabolites appear in the blood that are usually stopped by the liver (ammonium, mercaptans, short-chain antigens) and that may then reach the central nervous system (particularly sensitive to these compounds) and trigger central nervous troubles such as circling movements, eptileptiform crisis, and increase of the intracranial pressure accompanied by migraines, and finally stupor, coma and death (Beck et al, 1996).