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It turns out one of Her Majesty's secret agents lived the high life only in the movies. The James Bond of the 1970s, Roger Moore, won't eat foie gras, and he won't speak to friends who do either.
"Before I knew how it was produced I would often pick at it at parties just because it was on offer -- though I never ate too much of it because of its huge calorific content," he writes Tuesday in an op-ed in the Daily Mail. "Since I have understood the cruelty attached to its production I have never touched it again. I now boycott restaurants where it is served."
"I refuse to speak to old friends who, even when they know how it is produced, are prepared to overlook the suffering for self-gratification," he writes. "My wife Christina feels just the same. No creature deserves to be treated as these birds are for our delectation."
Moore joined forces with People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals three years ago to narrate a video about foie gras production. Moore contends the birds are force-fed the human equivalent of 45 pounds of pasta a day to fatten their livers.
Foie gras has long raised eyebrows, with some cities going so far as to ban its sale.
But some chefs aren't swayed by the anti-foie gras campaigns. New York Chef David Chang of Momofuku continues to serve foie gras, and earlier this year he weighed in on Eater about why.
"I can't speak to what happens at all foie gras farms, and I have no doubt there are places that don't have the proper regard for the health of their birds, but me and my guys have been to Hudson Valley Foie Gras. We've seen every last step of the process – and we were humbled by it ... After visiting the farm, we knew that the ducks were being raised in a responsible, respectful manner and that we could serve foie gras in our restaurants with a clean conscience," he wrote.
What do you think? Should James Bond be defending the waterfowl? Let us know in the comments below.
[Via Daily Mail]
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9-22-2009 @7:51PM VEGANESE said... FOI GRAS IS FRENCH FOR FATTY LIVER.LIKE ALL MEAT EATING PEOPLE THIS ALSO HAS A CRUEL ROUTINE BY WHICH A LONG PIPE IS INSERTED INTO THE THE THROAT DOWN THE STOMACH OF THE DUCK. THE DUCK IS OVER FED PURPOSELY TO ENLARGE ITS LIVER TO NEAR EXPLOSION. THE DUCK IS THEN KILLED VISCERATED TO REMOVE THE LIVER THEN EATEN BY THE CONSUMERS HUMAN BEINGS. LESSON ON CRUELTY TO ANIMALS HOW FOOD IS MADE 101
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9-23-2009 @5:18PM Brenda said... have you been to chicken farms lately
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9-22-2009 @8:02PM Brenda said... have you been to chicken farms lately
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9-22-2009 @8:01PM joy said... i've never tried it but now that it's a big flap i think i'll go out and pay 20 bucks for an ounce of it so i can eat it up and then roger moore won't ever flipping talk to me, Yay!
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9-22-2009 @7:59PM Angiebaby said... "I used to pick at it but never ate too much." Ahh haa ha... it's the "I didn't inhale" alibi for Fois Gras!
Actually, this is nothing more than Roger Moore's attempt to pimp his restaurants and get people to order the expensive-ass Fois Gras they serve! For his old friends who feel the need to schlep around and eat Fois Gras on the sly, I suggest the ever popular "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy! Personally, I'm in the "we're fixin' to eat it anyway" camp. You can give the ducks pep talks and massages all you like, but their neck is still going on the chopping block.
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9-22-2009 @8:00PM mezl said... i agree that animals should at least be raised and treated with respect and as much kindness as can be afforded an animal meant for people to eat. just because we rely on them for food does not mean they should be subjected to cruel treatment. but i do think there are better animal rights organizations one can join besides peta. as i understand it, they are a bunch of nuts. and i find it odd that every thing on this planet eats every thing else. sad that some thing with feelings not unlike our own, and brains wired to under stand the environment around them and react accordingly are eaten. as woody allen said in one of his movies, and it may not be an exact quote- "the whole world is like a free-style restaurant". just a strange thought....
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9-22-2009 @8:04PM Jan said... this is not about tolerance or a difference of opinion. this is about torturing one of G-d's creatures and then relishing eating it. if a child molester came to you and said it was his view that all men are mean to have sex with children, would you then say that it is a difference of opinion if you don't agree with him? sometimes, humanity must enter into the equation. and this is one of them. veal are calves, baby cows, who never see the light of day, are in small cages and are force fed for their short lives, slaughtered and served up as a delicacy. i ask friends not to order veal when we go out. i ask them not to order foi gras. matter of opinion? no. a matter of humane moral decision making.
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9-22-2009 @8:18PM Jeremy Kimsey said... What difference does it make you are raising the animal to kill and eat it anyway.
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9-22-2009 @8:31PM JC said... Isn't it interesting how some people justify their selfish, narcissistic behavior (i.e., eating foie gras) by rationalizing that other people are doing "worse" things to other animals or people? Denial much??? What they are too un-evolved to realize is that the inevitable karmic will pay them a visit when they least expect it. They won't "get it" til it physically happens to them and they feel the same pain. And they will.
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9-22-2009 @9:17PM Barbara Johnson said... Yes, I believe it's appalling the way animals are treated so humans can indulge themselves with foie gras but why stop there? What about chickens raised in small cages stacked sky high, or pigs and cows living a miserable life in cramped quarters until the day they're led to slaughter. It's all horrible and yet we turn a blind eye toward all this. The reverence with which we treat our cats and dogs is so out of proportion to the way we treat other animals.
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9-22-2009 @9:20PM sykiks said... One of you fundie Morons just had to show up and spout some of your stupidity on a board with nothing to do with abortion. First of all it is a FETUS not a baby. Yes it is alive. My appendix is alive, but it is not a LIFE. There is a BIG difference between being living tissue and being a life. Until it has a fully functioning brain it CAN'T be a human being, only a potential one. A living breathing human being takes precedence over a potential one every time. Thank goodness god has more sense than you moronic imbeciles. Get it through your idiotic heads....No brain = no humanity = no soul = no life.
A final note. The third trimester abortions you idiots like to harp on are not "On demand". They have to be performed in a hospital and deemed medically necessary by more than one doctor. Very few women would ever choose to carry a fetus that long and randomly decide to end it. Just like no Doctor would perform the procedure unless he felt it was necessary and not on a patient's whim.
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9-22-2009 @9:46PM Kurt said... Ok...i'm not sure if ive ever had this kind of "Duck" myself...probly not...and was never aware of the preparation either...and still not to clear as what happens...are you like saying its like stuffing a turkey with Stuffing...except when the duck is still alive?...is that what this is like?
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9-22-2009 @10:04PM Kurt said... I dont like duck anyways-too Gamey for my tastes...anyways just another question about this...maybe i'm missing something...so like they force feed these ducks untill their livers are near exploding...then they kill the duck and remove the liver...so....what was the porpose of over feeding the poor duck and how did this make it taste better....just curious
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9-23-2009 @4:25AM Kitty said... Oh, but it's so yummy!!!
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9-26-2009 @3:06PM celita said... http://www.gourmetcruelty.com/inv.php
http://www.cok.net/feat/hudsonvalley.php
I hope the investigations of Hudson Valley is passed on to David Chang, and anyone else who buys from that terrible place.
Clean conscience, whatever!
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