I get an alternative news email weekly from Alternet. That's alternet.org. The other day I was reading one of the articles in this email and was totally shocked and throughly disgusted. The article was about Foie Gras. What is Foie Gras? You ask. Well that is precisely why I went to read the article, I didn't know what it was and wanted to know. Fatty duck liver, that's what it is, fatty duck liver. Now if just knowing what it is isn't reviling enough, then you need to know how this 5000 year old delicacy is produced. You see there aren't just overweight ducks out there waiting to give up their livers, they have to be force fed. For you see Foie Gras is not a natural food, it's a man made delicacy. There are farms out there, mistreating ducks multiple times daily, shoving tubes down their throats and pumping them full of corn.
I read this article with total disbelief and distain for these cruel humans who would harm a poor innocent ducky. Ducks have no defense what so ever. At the end of the article there are links to farms who's sole purpose is to manufacture and sell the fatty livers of poor ducks. They tell how well they treat their ducks, give me a break, only feeding them twice a day. They don't mention that they are force fed enough for 3 meals each meal.
What is wrong with the human race that we want to mistreat animals so we can eat things we shouldn't be eating? Sometime ago I saw a video from China where they were catching sharks and cutting their fins off and then throwing them back into the water, like they thought they could still swim and survive. And another one where they caught dolphins and drug them through the streets, alive and placed them in a building and beat them to death. Probably so they could make soup out of them or something.
Here's some links worth checking out if you are so inclined. http://drbenkim.com/earthlings-documentary.html http://www.alternet.org/environment/140991/foie_gras%3A_how_a_5%2C000-year-old_delicacy_inspired_the_world%27s_fiercest_food_fight/
