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    Quote Originally Posted by FindersKeepers View Post
    You're right, the wording is sneaky, indeed. I don't know why they do that -- but they do.
    Here's a good long article about the topic from 2010 and recently updated 2019: https://www.seriouseats.com/2010/12/...-is-not-u.html

    An excerpt close to the end - "In large part, it's because foie gras is an easy target. There are only three foie farms in the country, and none of them have the money or government clout to defend themselves the way that the chicken or beef industry does. It's a food product that is marketed directly at the affluent, and the rich are always an easy target. As an occasional delicacy, it's also a food that's relatively easy for most people to give up.

    Personally, I find this kind of protesting abhorrent. If you are going to protest anything, it should be the industrial production of eggs, through which chickens are routinely kept in cages so small that they can't even turn around for an entire year. The problem, of course, is that you tell people to stop eating cheap eggs, and nobody will listen. The leaders of the anti-foie movement know this and use it to their advantage, using video and photographs taken from the worst of the farms (none of the ones in this country, for the record), and making it seem like all foie production is as despicable."
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    Quote Originally Posted by Helena View Post
    Here's a good long article about the topic from 2010 and recently updated 2019: https://www.seriouseats.com/2010/12/...-is-not-u.html

    An excerpt close to the end - "In large part, it's because foie gras is an easy target. There are only three foie farms in the country, and none of them have the money or government clout to defend themselves the way that the chicken or beef industry does. It's a food product that is marketed directly at the affluent, and the rich are always an easy target. As an occasional delicacy, it's also a food that's relatively easy for most people to give up.

    Personally, I find this kind of protesting abhorrent. If you are going to protest anything, it should be the industrial production of eggs, through which chickens are routinely kept in cages so small that they can't even turn around for an entire year. The problem, of course, is that you tell people to stop eating cheap eggs, and nobody will listen. The leaders of the anti-foie movement know this and use it to their advantage, using video and photographs taken from the worst of the farms (none of the ones in this country, for the record), and making it seem like all foie production is as despicable."
    Thanks for the link. Now, I'm positive I'd like the process banned. As far as chickens kept in tiny cages, that, too, should be banned.
    ""A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul" ~George Bernard Shaw

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    Quote Originally Posted by Helena View Post
    Here's a good long article about the topic from 2010 and recently updated 2019: https://www.seriouseats.com/2010/12/...-is-not-u.htmlAn excerpt close to the end - "In large part, it's because foie gras is an easy target. There are only three foie farms in the country, and none of them have the money or government clout to defend themselves the way that the chicken or beef industry does. It's a food product that is marketed directly at the affluent, and the rich are always an easy target. As an occasional delicacy, it's also a food that's relatively easy for most people to give up.Personally, I find this kind of protesting abhorrent. If you are going to protest anything, it should be the industrial production of eggs, through which chickens are routinely kept in cages so small that they can't even turn around for an entire year. The problem, of course, is that you tell people to stop eating cheap eggs, and nobody will listen. The leaders of the anti-foie movement know this and use it to their advantage, using video and photographs taken from the worst of the farms (none of the ones in this country, for the record), and making it seem like all foie production is as despicable."
    It's just another example of creeping totalitarianism. Megalomaniac sociopaths will use any excuse to harass us 24/7. They let us read 1984 so we'll only recognize the kind of obviously absurd examples such shallow fiction uses.
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    Quote Originally Posted by countryboy View Post
    What WILL all the foie gras eating Democrat hypocrites do? Better get a fainting couch before someone gets hurt.




    To late the day trump won the election they were fainting and busting thier heads all over the nation .

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