Muslim religion believes the way we slaughter livestock is unethical. According to the religion the animals need to be blessed then slaughtered in the least painful way. Take chicken for instant, the head shall be chopped off. Otherwise the meat shall not be consumed by Muslim. Many Muslim do not order chicken in restaurant or only go to a few selected restaurant. Should American as a free country outlaw to impose theses standards to accommodate the belief of certain people?

In the wild, goose and duck have the instinct to over eat before migrant yearly. They are looking to be over fed as part of their natural instinct and their liver also has the natural capacity to grow to a couple of pounds.

You are fooling yourself if you think the chickens are raise with care and love. In fact, they are raise in much worst condition as a cheap meat to the consumers. Many of the chicken you consume today never see sunlight, unable to make a step in their confide cage and possibly with distorted body. At least foie gras is appreciated as a delicacy.

If we allow foie gras to be ban then what is next? Muslim religion believes pork posses evil spirit, should sausage be banned now? Here we are claiming war against terror for freedom. Some of the commands above are worst than Nazi. Regardless if you dislike the taste or if it against your belief; you have no right to judge others for what they can or cannot eat. What is animal cruelty varies from culture to culture; so is food culture. Most religion believes that food is a gift from god. Criticizing how others consume their meal is more offensive than most of you realize.

Please just stop being all hatefull and stuff. I dont like to eat food that is more cruel than need be. It isnt nesicary for these people to have a plate of nasty liver ewwww. its not my taste anyway! Please stop being haters. I think the first thing people need to do is accept eachother. The good news is that foi gras is cruel so therefore it will be banned YAY celebrates. So everyone bitching about having the right to eat foi gras good luck after its banned. Go raise your own geese because no profit should be gained from a cruel practice like this. GO PETA!!!!!!

Ps fuck you all :-) NOT

It is just a hyped up food like caviar etc.

It is cruel.

Those animals are dumb but the people who eat that stuff are much dumber!!!

Finally in response to the person who says it is not cruel. Try and force feeding yourself for two weeks (please try not to vomit) and see how good it feels!

Foie Gras is almost orgasmic.....so F-U-C-K off all of you tree hugging animal activist assholes....you eat what you want, and I'll enjoy every last bite of what I want.....

F-U-C-K YOU FRENCH PRICKS, EAT MY DICK AND DIE!!!

If god hadn't wanted us to eat animals, then he shouldn't have made them out of meat.

It always amazes me how people like to force their idea's on others. Oh let's ban this and let's ban that and we can't have this. Well I thought this was America where we had choices but I guess not.

I was raised on a farm and I understand the city slickers have no idea what they are eating or why. All they know is nothing about the what and the why. I love foie gras and why don't the people who don't like it not eat it then but don't tell me what to eat when you yourself have not done any of the raising of animals. Let's save the world and tell them all how to live and what to eat. What is next we are loosing just about all of the freedoms we have.

"sick. enjoy your heart disease."

i will!

this culture's malthusian current will never cease to amuse me.

Did somebody seriously just analogize vegans to abolitionists and Jewish sympathizers during the reign of the Third Reich?

sick. enjoy your heart disease.

btw:

"so it's not immoral to kill a plant because the plant has no knowledge of its existence and is not even a sentient being."

for future reference, this is an excellent argument for infanticide (or rather, could be turned into one) or even late term abortions. it is not a good measure of worth, since you're basically saying a certain amount of conceptual power is required to make the cut for "not kill-worthy"

now that i think of it, it's also an argument for murdering the severely retarded and comatose, since they clearly lack sentience and awareness in many cases.

i have lots of veggie friends, but i've always tried to warn them from arguing that particular line. it's easily exploited.

"so it's not immoral to kill a plant because the plant has no knowledge of its existence and is not even a sentient being.

i feel like you're just being difficult."

i'm not. life requires death to feed. period.

i don't think it's immoral to kill animals in the slightest, and your use of pain and awareness as a measure is lacking - i.e. if i pith myself a frog, and it no longer feels pain, and then i eat it...is that more or less moral than just killing the frog in one shot? (frogs are probably gross, too, i've never tried myself...)

ironically, i eat very little meat, for a number of reasons. but nature is the war of all against all, so we might as well get some good barbecuing in.

Since the protests took off I've made it a point to order anything containing foie gras on the menu in any New York restaurant and pick-up more foie gras from Zabar's every week. Foie gras tastes really good, the ducks are just as dead as any salad, people should JUST GET OVER IT!. Vegetarians should stop being so animal-centric and realize that killing a carrot and killing a duck are the same thing...the torture just makes it more fun.

retailwhore:

there is suffering going on here. why should there not be a law? this sure as hell isn't about the government "stick[ing] its nose into everyone's home": it's about stopping torture.

you like foie gras? too bad. some may like cock fights or starving dogs or mistreating horses, but these things are illegal because they are torture. same goes for humans.

dhex:

yes, plants are living, but they don't have "a life" in the same way that organisms in the animal kingdom do. animals, as opposed to plants, have brains which enable them to feel pain and desire life. animals, for the most part, are fully aware of their surroundings and their own being.

so it's not immoral to kill a plant because the plant has no knowledge of its existence and is not even a sentient being.

i feel like you're just being difficult.

No, it's not rabbit season. It's duck season!

"Aren't there other causes that we should be worrying about instead?"

That, by far and away, is the most mind-bogglingly stupid argument anyone can make. Gee, why should anyone worry about ANYTHING then since there's always some "other," more important cause to jump on? Why should we care about Iraqi orphans when kids are being abused right here at home every day? WHy should we worry about North Korea when there's a global AIDS crisis? I know! Let's just not do ANYTHING to try and lessen the suffering in the world (human or animal) and just plop on the couch and watch "Simple Life" reruns! Yeah!

Idiot.

"foie gras is produced by taking away a life. tofurky isn't."

so those bean curds weren't alive?

life: it's what's for dinner

I love foie gras. First had it in France, and it was love at first bite. I am aware of how it is made, and I'm okay with it.

If you don't like foie gras, or the way that it's produced, don't eat it.

People are against lifestyle legislation until they find something that they personally cannot stand. Stop being such hypocrites. Boycott restaurants that serve foie gras, or stores that sell it, or even people who eat it if that's how you feel, but to involve the law in this? This is why the government feels the right to stick its nose into everyone's home; you open the door for one reason, and you only complain when legislation would have an unfavorable effect on your life.

Speaking of whale blubber, a Japanese fast-food chain just put a whaleburger on its menu.