"IanH" > wrote in message
...
I'd also be
> more than happy to make an appointment for you to see Jacques and
> Annie Fontaine's duck farm and see for yourselves whether it's
> necessary to ill treat ducks to get foie gras.
>
> I completely share the unease people have about cruel treatment of
> animals. As long as it extends in equal measure to chickens, to pigs
> and to cattle. I am sorry but I think it's the height of hypocrisy to
> single out foie gras, which gives a product which is truly excellent,
> while turning a blind eye to battery pork production (such as takes
> place in Western France - Brittany and Normandy) and industrial
> chicken farms (almost everywhere in the world) which produce
> mediocrity if not worse.
>
> I'm sure you're not in that position Nils, but many, many people in
> the UK for example, think nothing of snapping up Tesco's two chickens
> for a fiver offer, while pointing the finger at foie gras.
>
> --

Your comments echo those in the letter of an anonymous vet in the July 08
Decanter.
Graham