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Assemblywoman Joan Voss is disgusted by foie gras.
But she doesn't want to go the way of Chicago and ban the sale and serving of it. Voss simply wants to regulate how it's produced. She wrote a bill that would prohibit farmers from force-feeding ducks and geese through tubes. "I don't care if people eat it. My bill just says produce it in a humane way."
Such a regulation doesn't go without opponents. Foie gras distributors in New Jersey would lose millions of dollars in sales.
Chicago's foie gras ban went into effect last week (and has already had its first violation!). Philadelphia and New York state officials have also discussed outlawing production and sales. California currntly has a ban on force-feeding poultry.
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8-29-2006 @7:06PM Lotte Decker said... What really is disgusting, is how goverment intrudes more and more on all private aspects of our life -
however I am not against baning the forcefeading.
It is however a cruel truth, that cruelty against animals reaches such outcry - people in Africa die of hunger - Lebanon gets bombed - innocent people are dying everywehre and nobody cares .....
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8-29-2006 @8:56PM Jill said... Anyone who doesn't find the picture of a goose with that tube down it's throat totally disgusting needs to be held down and forcefed.
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8-30-2006 @9:58AM Allison said... Bleeding heart anthropomorphists are the real problem.
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8-31-2006 @5:22AM Stephanie said... Oh yes, of course, that's the real problem here, goodness forbid someone cares about something besides stuffing their gullet... A perfect example of why "gourmands" are insufferable...
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8-31-2006 @2:19PM J. Randazzo said... Perhaps if animals could speak, they would tell us that they don't want us to bomb Lebanon, or that we should help the starving people in Africa. The problem is that these animals have no voice, so compassionate and educated people, need to speak up for them.
Kudos to Assemblywoman Joan Voss for taking a stand.
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10-01-2006 @1:16PM Gabriel Claycamp said... What is truly sad is opinion without education or fact. Assembly woman Joan Voss is no doubt acting as compassionately as she thinks best (or cowtoing to special interests) but she obviously hasn't done any research. What would she say if she knew:
that the American Veterinary Medical Association has deemed foie gras production to not only be "not torture" but also not even inhumane at all. In fact is "more humane" than much of how chickens are raised.
Does she think she knows more than the AVMA? Wow!!! She must really be educated!
Opinion without education is what is truly disgusting.
~Gabriel
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