{"id":153,"date":"2009-08-12T09:12:44","date_gmt":"2009-08-12T09:12:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/yourcharmedlife\/2009\/08\/the-fois-gras-wars-like-wwii-this-is-a-just-war.html"},"modified":"2009-08-12T09:12:44","modified_gmt":"2009-08-12T09:12:44","slug":"the-fois-gras-wars-like-wwii-this-is-a-just-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/yourcharmedlife\/2009\/08\/the-fois-gras-wars-like-wwii-this-is-a-just-war.html","title":{"rendered":"The Fois Gras Wars: Like WWII, This Is a Just War"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"whiteGoose.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/133\/import\/whiteGoose.jpg\" width=\"325\" height=\"300\" class=\"mt-image-left\" style=\"float: left;margin: 0 20px 20px 0\" \/><\/span>I love it that <i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Foie-Gras-Wars-000-Year-Old-Delicacy\/dp\/1416556680\">The Fois Gras Wars<\/a><\/i>, the new book by <i>Chicago Tribune <\/i>journalist Mark Caro, is getting so much play in the media. He&#8217;s a journalist and has to be neutral. I&#8217;m a blogger and can come down on which barracks I&#8217;m in for this war: the one with the ducks and geese.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><i>Fois gras<\/i> may be the most cruel of foods. Pope Benedict has decried it; Israel has banned it; and gourmets around the world are still taking sides. The term itself is French for &#8220;fatty liver,&#8221; a pathological state. Although pricey restaurants laud it as a gustatory delight, it&#8217;s history is anything but delightful.&nbsp;Ducks and geese are force-fed through metal tubes jammed down their throats until their livers are grossly and unnaturally enlarged. That&#8217;s the prize. Yum.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Here&#8217;s some video footage:&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=_RtWaVp0TGg\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=_RtWaVp0TGg<\/a>. And here&#8217;s another clip showing French foie gras production: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nofoiegras.org\/media\/media_img\/discover-foie-gras.wmv\">http:\/\/www.nofoiegras.org\/media\/media_img\/discover-foie-gras.wmv<\/a>. Let me be totally transparent and tell you that I got this&nbsp;a&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nofoiegras.org\">Farm Sanctuary<\/a> website and, yes, they are an animal rights group. But the footage is what it is.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>What do you think? Is a gourmet meal, with the ego boost of showing others that you can afford fancy food, worth what you see here? I can&#8217;t even imagine it. I&#8217;ve stopped going to the Museum of Modern Art here in New York City because their restaurant, The Modern, had on its menu, the last time I was there, three foie gras dishes &#8212; two appetizers (that&#8217;s how it&#8217;s traditionally served) and an entree. In addition to writing letters and signing petitions, bypassing the MOMA is my little added protest.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>I know I&#8217;m a minority in my choice to live as a vegan. I understand that people eat meat and a lot of those people I love to pieces. But <i>foie gras<\/i>? It&#8217;s so absurd and elitist and archaic. What&#8217;s your opinion? Where do you come down in the <i>foie gras<\/i>&nbsp;wars?<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vegan blogger and author Victoria Moran looks at journalist Mark Caro&#8217;s new book, The Fois Gras Wars, and leaves impartiality to him as she takes a no-fois-gras stand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":177,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spiritual-adventuring"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The Fois Gras Wars: Like WWII, This Is a Just War - Your Charmed Life<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" 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