Chicagoist: As the Foie Gras Turns ... Again

Edith

Thu, 14 Jun 2007 08:34:59 -0600

Cruel fois gras is unnecessary, so ban it, it's not like fois gras tastes all that good anyway! Greasy mess...

xastris

Wed, 13 Jun 2007 15:24:20 -0600

hilarious that i just made one.....

xastris

Wed, 13 Jun 2007 15:22:26 -0600

who said i was angry? is it not okay to point out type-os? i'm just saying - this otherwise great site is getting sloppy. if they expect people to read it - and indeed sell advertising on the site because people do in any number - it just seem to me it should be, you know, readable. god, point out anything around here and people are just itching to make something personal.

gc

Wed, 13 Jun 2007 14:59:03 -0600

They really should have gone about this law in a more reasoned manner. You can't ban a dish. But you can ban the sale of food products that were produced in a cruel manner. Good = Let a goose eat as much as it wants, and fry up its tasty liver. Bad = Cram a tube down the goose's neck and stuff corn down its neck until it dies, and fry up its tasty liver. That makes sense and addresses the point of the law, which I think is supposed to be the cruelty. Instead of making Chicago's legislature a laughingstock, you'd create a real marketplace for non-cruelty foie gras, and maybe, just maybe, effect some change in the way we treat the animals we eat.

Cheryl

Wed, 13 Jun 2007 14:42:46 -0600

I think the only people who should be embarrassed are the ones who keep trying to overturn the ban.

mark

Wed, 13 Jun 2007 14:34:02 -0600

Again, thank you alderman for your ability to senselessly pass such dumb legislation and continuing to waste taxpayer dollars defending such ludicrous legislation so you can sleep knowing you rid your little worlds' bubble of foi gras. You have created a laughinstock and an embarrasment of yourselves. Cheers!

aj

Wed, 13 Jun 2007 13:49:27 -0600

xastris - Are you paying to read this? Why do the typos make you so angry? Let it go...

xastris

Wed, 13 Jun 2007 13:21:40 -0600

There's another type-o in this piece! C'mon, you guys! That makes four big ones in three posts just today.

sue

Wed, 13 Jun 2007 13:08:36 -0600

Phew! So yet again we're to be saved from ourselves. Boy, I knew that the fois gras ban was somehow changing the world, saving lives, making the world a better place... would hate to have that repealed.

Alex

Wed, 13 Jun 2007 13:05:18 -0600

My manhood and integrity depend on the overturn of this ban...