Anthony Bourdain : Charlotte, NC PART 9 Q&A

[KJOCHO]

Ayahuasca to make a real trip to the past. Good try Tony.

[cook31400]

I agree. It's a crop, just like corn.

[apachedisco]

All you PETA people can fuck off. Thanks for watching though!

[pinkerton88]

Keithpas, I think the real question is not what I feel about foie gras, but why I feel the way I do about it. Please see the above, thank you.

[keithpas]

Pinkerton, how do you feel about Foie Gras?

[pinkerton88]

For more info' on fois gra and other unnecessary cruelties within the production of meat and how to lead a 'cruelty-free' life, visit www.peta.com, oh, and Mr Bourdain, maybe you should do the same too, thank you and thanks for reading.

[mrjapan1]

unnecessary? it's delicious.

[pinkerton88]

If that is your opinion then fair enough, but all I will say is that im glad that i don't have to sit down and look at a diseased liver and think 'ummm lunch', i like my meals tasty, fresh and guilt-free thank you.

[SimnaibnSind]

The cruelty is in the details and the details don't matter. The poultry that is treated this way was bred to die.

[SimnaibnSind]

People will be convinced to stop eating meats all together before they start worrying about how they treat animals they are going to slaughter to being with unless it has an undesired effect on the quality of food they are trying to produce.

Some animals are treated better such as the cows used to make Kobe and Wagyu beef. They are treated this way because it raises the quality of the meat(as wel as the price).

[SimnaibnSind]

Just the same the processes used for foie gras are done to make the meat of higher quality. And in case you were wondering, higher fat = higher quality = higher flavor which also most often = higher price. As for PETA...they are a hypocritical organization and so I will direct you to the most blatantly PETA-opposed source of info I can find on the subject: Watch the show "Penn & Teller BS" the episode on Animal Rights. Its quite enlightening.

[SimnaibnSind]

I can imagine a world in the distant future where no meat is eaten by people and animals are no longer farmed, but that won't happen as long as there is poverty and/or hunger in any part of the world. And that is something that I don't see happening in any of our lifetimes...maybe our great great grandchildren will see that day.

[shire2005]

Wow i think i'm going to cry. you are so idelistic. Just beautiful. Time to go now and eat a nice rare steak!

[SimnaibnSind]

while normally i'd be happy for you, going to enjoy that steak, right now i have to say SHUT UP cause im on a diet and you are making me jealous^_^

[pinkerton88]

So Tony, please, wise up and have some respect, in many of your shows you preach about treating animals, such as pigs and cattle with that very respect, so why not show it towards birds? Sir, I do believe that is a contradiction of terms.

[pinkerton88]

At the end of this cruel process, you are left with a diseased liver, which is three, or four times larger than normal and is mostly fat. Hmmm, sounds good to you? No? Well it does to Tony.

[pinkerton88]

Fois gras or 'fatty liver' in English, involves poultry being forced fed by inserting a metal tub down the throats of these unfortunate birds, often scraping the inside of their throats, causing the animals great pain and discomfort. This process can last many months, with birds often unable to walk due to the unnatural weight and size of their own body.

[pinkerton88]

Firstly, I have to say that I find Tony to be an intelligent, humorous t.v. host, whose shows I often watch, more or less, with great enjoyment, and who is also an obvious master in his own right, but I have to disagree with his stance on fois gras. It is a product, which inflicts unnecessary cruelty on millions of factory-farmed poultry around the world, all for a product few can afford.