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Friday, May 16, 2008

Food To Foie, or Not to Foie?

Posted by Patrick Coleman on Fri, May 16 at 4:28 PM

So, my post regarding increased protests against venues that serve foie gras has been generating some interesting comments:

personally I choose not to frequent restaurants that serve it. i see it more and more and get really bummed out. I suppose it would be more effective if I told the restaurant why i won’t be returning…
Posted by m | May 14, 2008 2:35 PM

After a careful examination of the facts and my own ethics, I support foie gras personally. I will make it a practice to make sure the restaurants I frequent know it. I didn’t know the movement was mobilizing in portland. I feel restaurateurs should know there are other voices in their community. Though I would never personally stoop to the level of interfering or harrassing a business (such as the fur or pro-life protests).

Posted by C | May 14, 2008 3:06 PM

i’m a vegetarian who doesn’t like chichi restaurants, so i’ve kind of ignored this issue until today. a little googling says that the ducks or geese are force-fed a human equivalent of 60 pounds of food a day for several weeks until their internal organs are on the verge of failure.
i don’t understand eating meat in general, but this is especially cruel. i will not go to blue hour even more than usual in protest.

Posted by passive boycotter | May 14, 2008 5:06 PM

I plan on covering the Blue Hour protest tonight. Action kicks off at 7pm. So, what about you? Will you be trying to get foie gras off the menu, or eating it?

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Eating it! YUM!!!

Posted by Quack! | May 17, 2008 12:07 AM

Last night I ate at Blue Hour. The anti liver people were loudly protesting and trying to shut the place down. The result was a lot of people were pissed off at them. We, in honor of the night, made sure to order Foie Gras and ate it at our outside table in front of the so called protesters. I will give my life for their right to protest, but last night they did night stop one dinner, save one goose, or make one friend. They are the ones who are full of shit. I really like the point in the night when one of the protesters was saying that it was banned in 17 countries, and when asked to name them, she could not name more than four. BTW, do vegans swallow ?

Posted by PSJackson | May 17, 2008 9:56 AM

I won't eat it, because it requires the torture of animals.

I'm not so hot on the protests, however, nor am I impressed by the callous backlash they create.

The way those animals is treated is criminal, to be sure. The way to express your resistance to that treatment is personal, if some protest, then fine protest. I'm not sure it's the best way, a phone call to restaurants that serve it might be just as effective and not create all the backlash.

Ps: I'm not vegetarian or vegan, I just care about where my food comes from.

Posted by Bpaul | May 17, 2008 10:09 AM

I'm going to eat it and eat a lot of it. YUMMIE! All of you who have found your identity in the "I'm better than you because I don't eat meat," are all nut sacks. Get a clue and grow up.

Posted by Frenchie | May 17, 2008 10:13 AM

You would think that in a progressive town with a liberal body of people who promote everything local - shop, grow, eat, etc - that the activists would find a better way to protest than to target LOCAL BUSINESSES and make them out to be evil.

You would think they would find a better way to get their point across that shows their support of everything local. Instead they target local businesses that employ people and contribute to the local economy.

This is just plain dumb, it also shows the lack of intelligence and the extremist view that they are right and everyone else is wrong. It doesn't matter if you are on the left or the right, an extremist is just that, extremist. PETA or W, same thing in a different skin.

Posted by makes no sense | May 18, 2008 9:10 AM