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Thursday, February 08, 2007
Foie gras is a disease, not a delicacy
There’s a brief item in the February 12 issue of New York magazine—nauseatingly entitled “Ommm vs. Yummm"—in which Geoffrey Gray tells of a meeting at Jivamukti Yoga in Manhattan. The subject of this meeting is foie gras (pronounced fwah grah) or more specifically: how this alleged epicurean indulgence is made. “Aint’ no yogis eating foie gras,” declares hip-hop mogul and longtime vegan, Russell Simmons. “It’s barbaric, it’s crazy.”
Foie gras (French for “fatty liver") is a $20 million a year business in New York State and a single producer like Hudson Valley Foie Gras, for example, slaughters 6000 ducks a week. Geoffrey Gray betrays his bias by characterizing foie gras as “rich, velvety, and controversial bird livers.” Simmons, as you might imagine, sees things a just a little differently. “I sit here and watch people eat steak and eat foie gras and do stupid shit all day long,” he says. “I’m really not an angry vegan, but human beings are fucking rude.”
Read foie gras article here
(Don’t miss the “liberal” comments at the end of the article)
Masochists can read more liberal reactions here
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