I send above letter to these addresses:

info@enjoyfoiegras.com

info@sonomafoiegras.com

info@hudsonvalleyfoiegras.com

and to other blog or customers.This is only work I can ,in my country( Iran) foie gras is not produced but I want to help for stopping suffer of these poor birds.

Foie Gras is not a true food.

It is a fatty liver (disease) with infection of ducks and birds.

These poor animals are kept in crowded conditions and suffer immensely traumatic forced-feeding process and disregard for the pain. These poor animals are forced to eat lots of fat by tube. They are suffering from infection and bleeding from the gastrointestinal tract.

This continues until they die. Then fatty liver of suffered and patient birds is used for the foie gras production.

So extreme form of animal cruelty is the way that foie gras is produced

I am physician and I am sure that this food can cause serious diseases:



1-Because of animals suffer, a lot of toxins (oxidants) are produced in their body and these toxins can lead to cancer in human body.

2-these birds are neglected and infected and their liver is filled with harmful fats that lead to cardiovascular disease and stroke.

As a producer please stop producing Foie Gras

As a customer please do not select the foie gras in the menu of restaurants.

I had the best pan-seared foie gras last week in Boston. The portion was insanely generous (enough for two to share without fighting) and it was soooooo good. These idiot protesters need a life.

It never ceases to amaze me how New Yorkers can be some of the most tolerant, open-minded people but there are these weird blind spots in some when it comes to animal cruelty. It's like they must still put their personal indulgences ahead of being kind to animals. There are plenty of other dishes that are "insanely generous" that don't involve torturing a helpless creature.

you need to get a heart, you sound vile.

Actually was not paid to go, had to use vacation time.

And to the people that truely believe in their animal rights cause, all power to you. But after meeting these hippy phase individuals that go to new school, many of them I've met do it because its the in thing to do. A lot of high fives are exchanged after holding posters up and hanging out in front of the big mans establishment. Just felt like priorities need to be rearranged.

And yeah, I spent two weeks in hell so I can get fame and recognition on gothamist with my anonymous username. You have me pegged right

darkdrseuss - I was also in Haiti - volunteering - not "deployed" - but I don't need to USE IT as a trump card to defend my position on animal rights. Because there was an earthquake in Haiti people should just put up with animal abuse huh? That's like saying because there's Darfur people should shut up about Haiti. You are so smug and superior and self righteous - you're so boring.

By the way you are what you eat. It's written all over your face.

Wow it took a vacation to Haiti to realize their is human suffering? NO one is asking you to help animals but to stop hurting them. And perhaps if you weren't stuffing food down the geese's throat till his liver explodes then there would be more food for others. You just don't make the connection.

you did a good thing man

foldingcircle's greatest aspiration in life is getting picked as commenter of the week on Gawker

You can stop cashing in your unemployment checks now and set up shop on the sidewalk with your broken deck, a deck of cards and your kiddie blanket as Sylvia Brown 2 or her prodigy...

So many opportunists went to Haiti - Sean Penn, Baptist Child-Kidnappers....it doesn't take going to Haiti to know that all beings suffer unjustly.

That being said - People have a right to speak out about animal cruelty - just like you get to stuff your face with it without getting off topic.

[I suppose the high-on-the-horse person that got "deployed" was paid to go or that person probably would not have gone in the first place.]

I just returned from haiti after a 2 week deployment there, and reading crap like this is annoying. There is so much human suffering occuring in the world that these trust fund hippies wasting money and energy to save some geese seems minute in comparison. The fact that you have children going hungry in this city, a ciity of supposed wealth and advancement, is a damn disgrace to our community as a whole. If you want to volunteer your time and energy to helping something, invest your energy into saving those who have not asked to suffer like this.

It's funny how there's a certain strain in "foodie" culture that considers it macho to eat food that involves torturing or glorifying the death of animals. People who eat foie gras are the same ones who roast a whole pig and let it sit out on the table like a trophy.

I recognize that humans are carnivores and there's nothing wrong with that, but there are plenty of ways to eat meat that doesn't involve animal cruelty.

The fois gras issue aside.. if you accept meat-eating in general, as you do, how is roasting a pig cruel?

I guess it would be better to eat shrink wrapped meat that doesn't actually resemble an animal?

The people I know who eat whole roast pig (including myself) respect that it was a living pig and gave it's life for us to have a good meal.

If these protesters are so worried about animal cruelty why aren't they protesting at McDonalds or any other business that uses factory farmed meat where animals are beyond abused? Why don't they go to ConAgra plants and protest there?

Oh, right, because it's easier to target some "elitist" restaurant in NYC serving Foie Gras.

And by the way, Foie Gras ducks live better lives that some humans.

"Foie Gras ducks live better live that (sic) some humans"

Well, it's better if you consider being confined inside a dark shed and force-fed enormous amounts of food several times a day better. It's also better if a farm worker grabs you and thrusts a metal pipe down your throat making you grossly overweight, so your liver expands up to 10 times your normal size. If that's typical of your life, then a foie gras duck lives better.

it's funny how similar fucked up, inhumane treatment as applied to humans doesn't even enter into their moral decisions

you heard it here first, geese > brown and yellow children

As long as they use free range Canadian geese what's the problem?

free range foie gras = impossibility.

There is free range foie gras.Please watch this video: http://www.ted.com/talks/dan_barber_s_surprising_foie_gras_parable.html