Chicago bans foie gras

Sarcasmo said:
So what is the job of the city council? To pass municipal codes making certain things illegal, like the abusive treatment of animals that enables some flaccid jerk to press his belly up against the table at an overpriced restaurant and slurp down bird livers as part of something he and his equally useless cohorts deem "socially acceptable luxury dining" before going home and jerking each other off with old thousand-dollar bills and mutual fund receipts.
I take exceptional issue to that portrayal my good sir :rant:












We use Ferrari Mulroney stickers and Picasso sketches
 
Peta strikes again. I wish people would focus on community improvements or education problems as much as animal rights. I think the only right an animal has is survial of the fittest. If a duck is smart enough to eat people then more power to them. Until then I'm eating all the foie gras I want. Which is a really tiny amount.
 
Send in an email, I did. Here's the address of the guy who proposed this lunacy: [email protected]

my email said:
From: "Josh"
Subject: civilized society
Date: Thu, April 27, 2006 3:04 pm
To: [email protected]

Mr. Moore,

I mean no disrespect, but I fail to see how banning foie gras is upholding
the value of a civilized society.

Gratuitous overapplicaion of laws in this manner is truly what's
responsible for destroying civilized society, not what we're eating.
Banning smoking indoors is one thing, that's a public health issue.
However, banning a particular food because the animal may or may not be
treated questionably is ridiculous. Why not take on veal and lamb while
you're at it? Anthropomorphization is a weak argument at best. Animals
are not people, they should not be portrayed as such - for any reason.

With all the other issues the City of Chicago has, I see this as nothing
more than a way to get campaign dollars. Why not try and focus on
something relevant?

Thanks for your time.

- Josh
 
FlamingGlory said:
The mayor of Chicago... :lol:

Ok but either way. It is representitive of a larger trend of legislating everything. There are some things that 40 years ago people would not even have thought of passing laws about. It starts by taking away things little by little until there is nothing left except what is PC and approved by someone else. I mean look at their enforcement method, citizen snitches. It totally reeks of 1984.

No Im not getting bent out of shape about this regardless of the tone of my posts but meh. I will defend anyone who wants to eat obese duck liver to the death :cool: Or hunt baby seals.

I agree about the suffocating over-legislating of America. There are laws for everything now, and it seems that 50 years from now we will all need approval in advance to do anything.

However I am far more disgusted by the "Age of Entitlement" that I live in, wherein the pursuit of absolutely anything is acceptable as long as it makes one feel good. Wrapping your tongue around a nice, juicy piece of food that used to be an animal that was mistreated specifically to aquire that morsel is crossing the line. Is it necessary to abuse something just so you get yet another chunk of food out of it? Are we not already drowning in food? Are we not fat enough that we need to actually eat something that we've deliberately injected fat into? It's absurd. The very idea of it would be hilarious if it weren't actually happening.

I think people go insane when they become comfortable or rich enough to emotionally distance themselves from the real world. At least that's the only way I can explain 80% of what I see going on around me every day.

And clubbing baby seals? If that's not an overblown and misguided display of testosterone I don't know what is. What do they do it for? What are they aquiring from those seals that they need to kill them for? Nice soft fur for people to wrap around their obese feet, and penises for asian people to use as aphrodisiacs, as if asians weren't sexually fucked up enough as it is. Ever seen tubgirl? Tentacle porn? Squid porn? I rest my case. They don't need more dead baby seals, they need more radiation.

And even if I thought the practice of killing baby seals was necessary or justifiable there are plenty of more efficient and modern ways to aquire those goods than to go out manually with a pickaxe and brutalize the seals one by one. That's not rational hunting, that's chip-on-the-shoulder, chest-beating savagery.

The international community should be teaching those slanty-eyed backwoods idiots and whoever else believes they require the penis of a dead baby seal or a the paw of a tiger or panda in order to function in the bedroom that their ridiculous remedies don't work, and that raping the earth is only accomplishing one thing: the raping of the fucking earth.

Jesus Christ, those jerks are even coming to the U.S. and destroying our national parks to get at their "valuable dick-growing potions". They're starting to invade Olympia National Park in Washington state and dig up mushrooms, poach black bears, and probably host illicit scat porn parties.

Which brings me to another point.

Immigration.

It's not that people in the U.S. hate immigrants, it's just that all of the immigrants are fucking bizarre and hail from bizarre cultures that practice bizarre things and believe in bizarre shit. If you could cut out all the fucking weirdness I wouldn't care. Until then, close the goddamn borders and try to teach everyone not to act like such out of control monkeys all the time.

Which brings me to another point.

Monkeys.

Why don't we have more monkeys in America? Like that cool one in Indiana Jones with the fig. I love those things. There are places in India where monkeys run around all over the place and steal food and shit from tourists when they're walking around. How awesome would that be? Go out for a walk some night and some fucking monkey runs by and takes off with your hooker. We need some kind of societal mandate to introduce more monkeys like they have in India.

Which brings me to another point.

What's with India?
 
CletusJones said:
when's that and why was I not invited? I've been wanting to see spamalot
end of may and i don't remember who you are. i was not in charge of inviting but i do need to find a date
 
eileenbunny said:
If you eat animals at all, except ones you killed yourself, you are probably eating mistreated animals. Where do we draw the line in between necessary and luxury?


Uh huh.

Cows being slaughtered for their meat is a bit different than cramming abnormal amounts of food down some bird's piehole just so you can suck on a piece of fatty liver, Dr. Lecter.

There will always be certain machinations (in some peoples' opinion) involved with the food industry, but it's our job to make it as smoothe and humane and "necessary" as possible. People need to eat, but they don't need to do it gratuitously so.
 
Sarcasmo said:
Uh huh.

Cows being slaughtered for their meat is a bit different than cramming abnormal amounts of food down some bird's piehole just so you can suck on a piece of fatty liver, Dr. Lecter.

There will always be certain machinations (in some peoples' opinion) involved with the food industry, but it's our job to make it as smoothe and humane and "necessary" as possible. People need to eat, but they don't need to do it gratuitously so.
Stop making me salivate you heel! :drool:
 
Sarcasmo said:
Uh huh.

Cows being slaughtered for their meat is a bit different than cramming abnormal amounts of food down some bird's piehole just so you can suck on a piece of fatty liver, Dr. Lecter.

There will always be certain machinations (in some peoples' opinion) involved with the food industry, but it's our job to make it as smoothe and humane and "necessary" as possible. People need to eat, but they don't need to do it gratuitously so.

Chickens are kept in cages that are so small they never get to flex their wings. This keeps them from getting any exercise. They are force fed regularly and live in absolutely horrid conditions. Check out a mass production chicken farm sometime. It will make you want to vomit. I try not to think about it when I'm enjoying a nice Purdue Oven Stuffer Roaster.
 
eileenbunny said:
Chickens are kept in cages that are so small they never get to flex their wings. This keeps them from getting any exercise. They are force fed regularly and live in absolutely horrid conditions. Check out a mass production chicken farm sometime. It will make you want to vomit. I try not to think about it when I'm enjoying a nice Purdue Oven Stuffer Roaster.
i've been to a chicken farm. the conditions didn't make me vomit because i didn't get a good look. the smell was enough to make me lose my breakfast

coincidentally, scrambled eggs.
 
FlyNavy said:
end of may and i don't remember who you are. i was not in charge of inviting but i do need to find a date
We've never met. I met a bunch of [m] fools at the "sanjay in chicago" hooters meet a couple years ago but you weren't there IIRC. I've tried to make a few of you guys's meets but have always had something else come up.

I'm on the south side of the city in Oak Forest.