Culinary Cruelty: Undercover in Canada

[onyxescence]

Ariane is an idiot...and we should be FLOODING her with emails. Absolutely disgusting. Reprobates have no soul and she fits my definition of that. "If a man aspires towards a righteous life, his first act of abstinence is from injury to animals." - Albert Einstein"

[CatpurrRobertaBobbi]

And the west thinks that only places like China are the ones who abuse. Animals raised for meat is one thing. Designer foods for the rich is another.

[Steph6n]

I wonder how Ariane Daguin's liver tastes like... I'm sure God made it delicious for our pleasure... she's got no soul

[tiagom77]

ENFARDA BICHO!

[AciddReign]

i love food as much as the next guy but this is FUCKING INSANE!!! i dont give a fuck how good it is if this is how its made then im not eating it. imagine if YOU were caged and forced feed. Like dude WTF!!! it should be illegal everywhere!!!!

[gcsoneghet]

My dream was to kill them all, would be a sense of accomplishment.

[gcsoneghet]

Meu sonho era matar todos eles, seria uma sensação de dever cumprido!

[StephanieGouldActor]

This made me cry so much. Horrible.

[chesketh]

What the hell guys? Foie is delicious, get a grip.

[Chipnchips]

I hope Ariane Daiguin burns in fucking hell

[spacom2000]

yes it should be stopped and country's should not buy them

also there should be agnets to monitor and vist the farms

People who do this then what else are they capable of !!

I have ducks geese and hens all run free and looked after well

I would not kill them even if I am starving

I will wait for a egg to be laid.

[FiestyCat86]

what bothers me most is not the way they are force fed (though that does make me sick) but rather the fact that the rest of these animals is not fit for consumption. they are dirty, they usually end up with infections, that run through out the entire animal, and if the liver is the filter of an animal, you can sure as hell bet its got that same infection in it...and people EAT that. I swear if most liver eaters knew that, they wouldn't eat it anymore.

[matrixtothesquare]

kill one of them and say he had no soul!

[chloepitbull1]

That was truly horrific.

[keepruvthknight]

What the hell? raising ducks for their liver is one thing....2:00 through 2:28 - that kind of abuse is just UNACCEPTABLE!!!!!. Karma will bring those abusers to the same kind of treatment.

[torrqueo]

Mmmmmm yum!

[TrixGin]

And just who died and made Ariane Daguin God? How the fuck does she know animals have no soul? I hope she rots in hell! I have never eaten foie gras and I never will eat it...if nobody eats it then the demand will go to the shitter and crap like this will stop...so don't eat it and end this horror!

[bagelboi66]

I'm no zealot but this is disturbing. It's worth noting that Quebec has been trying to separate from the rest of Canada for decades. I'd rather they did after seeing this.

[thiagothsm]

SAY NO TO FOIE GRAS AND GAVAGE!

[cheremushki]

Why were baby ducks in the garbage can at the beginning?

[Slipjig723]

@cheremushki Female ducks are considered unsuitable for the production of fatty livers. They're gassed, suffocated in plastic bags, etc and then thrown away. Some survive. The ones alive in the trash were rescued by the organization that made this video.

[spacom2000]

That man will get punised and this type oif Farming and cruelty should be outlawed

why ever do people eat this after such extreme cruelty, firts time I heard of it until yahoo front page news

[FiestyCat86]

@spacom2000 because they either don't know, or don't care...its one thing to be the one doing the cruelty, and another to support it. I realize that this is wrong, but there are those out there with the mind set that if they didn't do it, then they are not to blame. Sadly we know different. If you buy it, you are an accomplice to brutally beating and keeping an animal, whether it is for consumption or not. And I now longer accept the phrase..."Its cause their French." thats not an excuse...

[MrVBat]

Could anyone beat Ariane Daguin up so badly that she has to suffer so much as that poor ducks?

[LegalAlien100]

1:37 Well Ariane Daguin exists but no one is enjoying her!

[ItsBadass]

i am so angry

[ItsBadass]

this is so disturbing that im having trouble watching it.. how do i stop this

[toepedi]

Song reminds me of planet of the apes.

[affendreck74]

Why would anyone in their right mind even want to eat this shit! It's totally gross and I'm sure not good for you. Then again, anyone who eats this crap, knowing the cruelity involved deserves any ill effects.

[januch2009]

To look into the eyes of any animal and say they have no soul is the epitomy of ignorance.

[Joshwan]

@januch2009 What? No its isn't. It just means that one doesn't think people or animals have souls, or that if they do the soul isn't viewable through the eyeball. Seems reasonable enough to me. Also not to be a pedant but I think you mean epitome.

[ArtypNk]

Lets start murdering snobs!!!

[HoboZombie]

By all means, take your life, and there will be one less.

[starbabe58]

so very sad

[B77CORVETTE]

I am a Canadian and i am so disgusted by what i saw what the hell is wrong with people why the hell would any one buy that shit. The ass holes that work there look like a fat white bastard and dirty asians, they showed no respect or humane treatment at all. DIRTY, DIRTY, BASTARDS hope you all go to hell.

[FishingRidingHunter6]

DISGUSTING! mAY ALL the foie gras eaters get a hard attack from the fat !

[bunkywhitegirl5]

This is fucking disgusting. They force-feed them to intentionally make them sick, & cause their livers to swell, up to 1/3 of their body cavity. I learned about this in culinary school, & my chef refused to serve fois gras because of it. How can this be legal?!?!!!! I recently went vegan, & I have never felt better or more healthy, & many old ailments have disappeared, like fatigue, stiffness,and poor circulation, I have lost weight & my skin has cleared up! I recommend it the everyone!

[MERMERiSHiGHONLiFE]

how can you people stand to watch this and then go eat meat!?! i really dont think youd like to go thru alllll this pain just so someone could eat some hackin food! dude you guys are buttheead!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[ChocolatePeach]

life is a repeating food chain, we humans eat meat. but that's natural, we kill, we die and we go back into the bottom of the cycle. thats natural. THIS IS NOT. ITS NOT NATURAL, how many times do you see a wolf force feeding a rabbit for its livers?

[leblancache]

i dont care! i'll eat foie gras this christmas. it tastes so good....

[iraeiera]

I wish you had to endure the same pain these animals have to, then maybe you wouldn't be so goddamn ignorant.

[bredebee]

I eat meat and frankly I enjoy it , HOWEVER I do believe that all animals should be treated and killed humanly . I only buy my meat products from local farmers that have free roaming happy animals . They at least deserve to live a happy life before there end , not a torturous one !

[iraeiera]

There's no such thing as "killing an animal humanely", because there's no way to do it completely painlessly or consensually. Even free range animals end up in the same place to suffer when they are sent off for slaughter.

[DarkestHour2008]

Sick,degenerate,serial killer in the making bastards that work in these places.

The animals we eat deserve to be treated and killed humanely at least.

People fucking suck..

[sgissweet845]

I hope these jerks get shot in this lifetime or in a next lifetime...

[TaraTryptamine]

Can we all stop arguing?

If you believe the video is a fake- don't complain about it. Just IGNORE IT.

Arguing on here is not going to make life any different, people.

Do you really think long, thought-out, comments, even this one I am making, make a difference?

The video is astonishingly disgusting, yes, and I admit- it might be fake.

But please, shut up about it.

[h8yerstate]

Here's an idea....

why don't you stfu and let these people discuss whatever they want to? Nobody's forcing you to read it you dumb shit.

[h8yerstate]

(to teratryptamine)

[TaraTryptamine]

And your expression so much more mature.

Let's not argue about opinions, please.

[HumanBeing69696969]

You know this kind of thing is so dumb. Why do these animal cruelty videos always have to have wierd camera shots and scary music. It's just trying to manipulate human emotions and its retarded. I mean im all for stopping animal cruelty but at the same time theres no need to show us these factory farm videos as if it was a concentration camp clip or something. For some people this is just their job, thats the way the world is.

[c4yerself]

The concentration camp reference is duly noted.

For Nazis, killing jews was just their job, that's the way the world was...

[kevalmiller]

The Jews were human beings. These are ducks. Ducks are food. That's just the way the world is.

[letsgoon2]

Ducks are indeed food, but does that give humans an open license to do anything to them? Food animals or not, the acts in this video are unconscionable and inexcusable.

[kevalmiller]

In retrospect, I agree that the unnecessary treatment of these animals is not good. However, they are just ducks. It disturbs me when people try to give animals the same rights of protection as they give to people.

[davidblainecheezits]

Are you crazy? Why shouldn't we give them human rights?

[mrblob20]

humans are also food.

[c4yerself]

But why are ducks food? Because we say they are. The Jews were in fact not considered human beings in the same sense as "Aryans" were. Why? Because the Nazis said so. Our attitudes toward animals are deeply, deeply entrenched, but when you really analyze them, they don't make a lot of logical sense. Like trying to claim that the Bible is the word of God because it says so in the Bible... a kind of endless, logic Mobius strip.

[kevalmiller]

I see another connection between the ducks and the Jews. Only a very small, ridiculous minority considered the Jews to be anything less that human. Only a very small, ridiculous minority consider ducks to be anything more than food. :) Cheers!

[h8yerstate]

how about the fact that we wouldn't even be fucking alive right now if our ancestors hadn't survived off of a mostly meat diet?

[c4yerself]

h8yerstate: That's great and all that our ancestors survived by eating a mainly-meat diet, but it doesn't have anything to do with the present. We have evolved intellectually and spiritually in a way that we are now able to make compassionate choices.  Just because "we did it back then", why does that mean it's OK to do it now? We're a little bit smarter now than when we were cavemen.

[ArrowHead83]

Never heard of Godwin's law, have ya son?

[mrblob20]

If you look at it logically -- most people DO NOT pay attention to these causes. I don't think anyone could take this amount of time to orchestrate this type of public display just to persuade a few you tube users who probably already do not eat that damn shit anyways.

And even if this investigation was somehow forged (which is stretching the limits of my imagination), you can't discount the 100's of other investigations that show the same thing -- animal cruelty. So go live in your hole fag

[ArrowHead83]

Oh, this gets better. "Dr." Mohan Raj is also on PETA's rolls.

Seriously, can these people be any less honest?

[ArrowHead83]

Now since you ran from the question, I'll ask it again:

ARE THESE PEOPLE AFRAID TO GET PROFESSIONAL OPINIONS FROM NEUTRAL THIRD PARTIES?

[ArrowHead83]

Oh, as if there wasn't enough wrong with this video... the doctor they quote near the end, Dr. Mary Lou Randour, is on PETA's board of directors.

Are these people afraid to get the opinions of professional, neutral third parties? Or just unable to get any to support their tripe?

[mrblob20]

So really, you don't find anything wrong with the way these people were handling these animals?

There's always one or two you here, always trying to be different, always trying to gain attention -- probably, because in real life no one pays you any.

[ArrowHead83]

1) So really, you eat babies? Honestly to fuck, stop slandering me.

Yes, I have a problem with how these people are handing the animals on video. I also have a problem with this "investigation" actually being an activist sabotage op masquerading as an investigation.

2) Always one of two of us, blah blah. Oh, I see a lot more than one or two of them here. But they're not on MY side of the fence.

[mrblob20]

who cares what it is -- it depicts something that occurs everyday... Are you saying these people only did it when the camera was rolling?

[ArrowHead83]

"who cares what it is"

anybody with a shred of rationality.

"it depicts something that occurs everyday"

That's what they want you to believe.

"Are you saying these people only did it when the camera was rolling?"

Frankly, yes.

Any other easy questions?

[mrblob20]

Yes, that's what they want me to believe? Who's they? The Germans? You have just proved that you are mentally incapable of being a rational person.

What other conspiracy theories do you belive in? That spy satelites connect with the fillings in your teeth to monitor what you say?

[huggamira]

Wow. Freaking crazy. Personally I think everyone is just freaking crazy.

[members905]

Foie Gras should be banned. It's one thing to slaughter animals for food consumption, but to treat them with such cruelty for personal indulgence is disgusting.

[alfkermit]

Hmm.. you say "Foie Gras should be banned. It's one thing to slaughter animals for food consumption, but to treat them with such cruelty for personal indulgence is disgusting. "

Well, that's an interesting way of seeing it.

I'm guessing taht you aren't very aware of how all the other "food-consumption-animals" are treated then.

[ArrowHead83]

Attention: This video is NOT an investigation. It's an undercover video from Global Action Network, an activist group.

If they can't even be honest about what the video is, then how honest can they possibly be about what's in it?

[c4yerself]

ArrowHead83: So, an undercover video that is documenting the actual, day-to-day conditions of a controversial industry ISN'T an investigation?  I wonder what exactly would constitute an investigation?

[ArrowHead83]

"So, an undercover video that is documenting the actual, day-to-day conditions of a controversial industry ISN'T an investigation?"

What, you think that that's what this is? Well then, I have some oceanfront property in Kansas for sale if you're interested.

What would constitute a real investigation? Oh, I dunno, something PROFESSIONAL maybe?

[belflower]

By the way ,I do care Just because I know whats up, You should do some research, Dont go by reaction. Thats what they want. I dont eat Foie Gras or veal. Because I disagree . But I dont want laws we have enough. I raise my own organic meat eggs and veggies. I know where my food comes from.Not the market. Butchering is never pretty no matter how humane. You want to be a vagan be one but dont impose those laws on me. Peta has an agenda as well as other animal rights no animal wellfare yes.

[c4yerself]

I agree that bans are a touchy subject, and always potentially dangerous from a libertarian perspective. But still, we have to have standards. I think we can all agree that bans on murder, torture, etc. are reasonable... I mean, nobody's complaining that criminalizing torture is just Big Government trying to run our lives. Why is it different for ducks? Most reasonable people would agree that torturing animals does not fall within their value systems.

[belflower]

your missing the point, Im not deluded, Animals dont need to be liberated. Peta took hundrends of farm raised rabbits and released them into the wild.Lets see a film on that! How long do you think they lived? Too many in one area, the colors mainly white? This video was made to create the reaction your giving so you will vote for what Animal libbers want. Control Who do you think is going to decide on what rights your Dog has? Or Chicken? It wont be you!! Wake up!!

[Fenceman000]

Wierd soundtrack. I see the problem so what's the answer?

[ShortNsilly]

Anytime there is cruelty there is pain!!! Canada Sucks! just as well as China!

[belflower]

Of course The animals are not acting,

The point being this could and in my opinion is an act To stop Foie Gras production. It wouldnt be a first time for PETA etc. to kill maim to get their agenda passed. Wake up !!

[animalliberation0961]

You're fucking deluded.

[sjakie258]

FUCK ARIANE!

[BlowCast]

those people need to be taught a lesson thats so sad wat they do to the innocent poor geese

[VilanewAndGeltrudis]

poor animals.

[jimmyphack]

I think we should be doing what they do to the people who are doing it and see how they feel.

[SebastianBach99]

Puts me right off foie gras. The ugly force-feeding and disgraceful brutality...and keeping them in these filthy cages. I eat duck, but a healthy free-range bird that was killed cleanly. We had chickens, in UK in WWII, and when it was time to supplement rations my uncle would just grab one and wring its neck in a couple of seconds. (The best-tasting chickens you ever ate!) Vegans have a consistent philosophy, but I think some others are also valid, and have sustained humanity for a long time

[nuizible]

"Le monde est dangereux à vivre, non pas à cause de ceux qui font le mal mais à cause de ceux qui regardent et laissent faire. "

.Albert Einstein.

[matt001122]

Tey shouldnt be stopped for cruelty, they should be stopped for being unsanitary.

Ducks breathe through their toungs, so they have no gag reflex. That tube going down thier throat doesnt bother them if its done right.

[vvillem9]

no, but hes tanking him fss, his stumach almost bursts

[valeriemartel]

How can people be so cruel? What does that say about them, are they retarded and don't have a clue what they're doing or are they just to stunned to know right from wrong. People who eat this shit should be butchered the same way as these animals are...

[williams45]

The concentration lager but in silence and with closed eyes.

I swear to God i will never ever eat fois gras in my live.

Neather shall my wife and children.

There would be few people on this earth if we should kill all heartless. gvg

[Dunndeer]

Killing for Eating. Wrong or Right.

The only way you can force people to stop being crule is to Have rules when Killing for Food.

I KNOW KILLING IS WRONG.

KILLING FOR FOOD WITHOUT CRULETY IS STILL KILLNG. IF YOU ARE KILLING TO EAT HUMAINLY AND DO NOT WASTE WHAT YOU KILL THAT IS NOT WRONG.

IF YOU KILL WITH NO RESPECT OF THE LIFE YOU TAKE, OR FOR THE FUN OF IT BY BEING CRULE THAT IS WRONG.

YOU CAN EAT BUT DON'T EAT WITHOUT RESPONCABILITY OR KNOWLEAGE OF HOW YOU FOOD WAS AQUIRED.

[c4yerself]

And sadly, I would agree that the employees *were* showing off, in much the same way as some children will try to impress their friends by picking on someone smaller.

[Banshee124]

Saying that it is staged by actors and that only the worst bits are taped to make it look like the status quo is a major cop-out. Animal cruelty happens, people. It's difficult for some people to admit because if they face facts they'll have to make the decision to either (a) denounce supporting the cruelty and become veg or (b) continue eating animals and admit that they fully support animal cruelty.

[c4yerself]

Not to mention that their faces are blurred out, so how could someone tell whether or not they're looking at the camera?! It seems likely that the investigator was wearing a "button cam", and naturally his co-workers would have been looking at him...

[bougabouga]

omg this is discusting , notin the sense that its ugly , but in the sense that its so fucking dum. Animals should not be tortued when killed , use gaz or something.

[belflower]

People come first, We have the right to live and eat as we will.Animals have the right to live and die with kindess and ease , Just as I would want. These people knew they were being filmed . They did the actions in front of the filming they were not caught. they looked into the lense and some were showing off. Watch the actors not the animals.

[BaloneyCrit]

A few decades ago, John Robbins investigated these kinds of animal abuse that are associated with factory farming. His "Diet for a New America" should be on everyone's reading list.

[HoboZombie]

Meh, whatever. Foie gras is delicious.

[MonocleStoat]

I thought zombies only ate brains.

[HoboZombie]

Our more provincial cousins, perhaps.

[BaloneyCrit]

Before you eat up, you'd better make sure you have both a good doctor and hospital to treat your artery disease.

[HoboZombie]

I don't eat foie gras every day. Maybe like once a month. It's stupid to eat a delicacy often, because then you habituate to its taste, and you lose the ability to taste all the rich flavor. Besides, cheese connoisseurs are more likely to develop heart disease since they eat much more cheese on a more regular basis than a foie gras lover.

[Banshee124]

No, it's stupid to eat a delicacy that was created from so much cruelty, because you then actively support the cruelty and lose the ability to tell right from wrong.

[HoboZombie]

Also, pate de foie gras and a hard cheese like gouda are very similar in terms of saturated fats and cholesterol, with cheese have more saturated fats, and foie gras having more cholesterol. And foie gras has nearly twice as much monounsaturated fats (which help protect the heart) as saturated fats.

[BarkusMuhl]

I guess this video didn't have any effect on you.  To have an animal will go through excessive pain and suffering to please your tastebuds doesn't speak well for your character, Hobo.

[bronteelizabeth]

You might not care, but other people do. And when people see these animals being treated like this, they know not to buy factory farm food

[Independentohya270]

Well i care but i still eat meat and other things not particurally duck meat but i do eat steak and things like that. I want animal abuse to end, but killing an animal for food is ok as long as it is done humanely which it was not in this video at ALL!

[williams45]

thats not the point of this video you idiot

[vivalaanalicia]

i don't get how people can eat animals.

[ArrowHead83]

Medium-rare, personally.

[RussellSimoni]

STOP CRUELTY

STOP KILL

[OnlyAKKID]

I have seen things at Chicken plants as well, where if a chicken falls off a truck they pick it up by one leg and if they can't catch the chicken they hit it with a catch stick when they get frusterated!!!

[ScooterMcBean]

This was gross. Way beyond reasonable animal husbandry - especially at 2:13. I'm not sure that there was any extra animal cruelty on the part of the handlers - they may have been just culling sick or injured birds. It's never a pretty sight even in a vet's office with a lethal injection.

I think that everybody who eats foie gras should have to see this right after indulging. (Waiter, bring me a bucket!)

[belflower]

my problem with this video is that some of these people knew they were being filmed. They looked into the lense . I raise poultry and butchering is never pretty. These acts are over done in my mind. my question is were they acting? remember to look hard before you jump on any band wagon. I found this to be sad review of human nature. True or not.

[rationlmynd]

Yep. And while there are scenes that should be unacceptable in a well-managed operation, these videos tend to focus on the worst and make it look like status quo.

[rachelle1017]

Regardless of whether they were "acting" or not, the birds weren't.

They weren't pretending to be confined in cages so tiny they can't move, or being covered in filth, or being thrown into the ground.

And if the people KNEW they were being filmed, I can't imagine what they'd do if they weren't on camera.

[powaniki]

Why always people with serious mental issues (like anger management problems) has to "work" with animals? It is repulsive the humans behaviour regarding other species. These people should be in a mental institution because they ARE dangerous!!! And stop doing something so unnatural as fatty liver. We have many things to eat without the need of such disgusting cruel "practice".

[Intizar321]

I like this video.

[WinterHaven]

MY CURSE TO THESE PEOPLE__May people who do such activities die a very slow and painful death like they did to these poor creatures. PEOPLE ARE FUCKING SICK. I thank God I'm a vegetarian.

[lilithdeSade]

How can someone who's living it is to kill and torture possibly be mentally stable? I wonder if there have been any studies into slaughter house worker's mental health?

[Encriptedman]

I want to kill this people. Well, not really. Just open their stomach and let them die.

The point is not to make them suffer less. The point is that we don't have to kill them. There is no reason. I'm vegan (no meat, no fish, no milk, no cheese...) and I'm very healthy and enjoy life better than when I wasn't vegan.

Think about that. We are nobody to take a life. Just to people as cruel as those in the video.

Must see Earthlings! In google videos.

[ArrowHead83]

Riiight.... so killing animals = bad, but killing people to save animals = A-OK?

You're need to get your head checked.

[Encriptedman]

If this people don't have any respect for other's life, why should we have respect to them? If they can be that cruel to animals you'll never know what they are capable of.

So that means you are seeing these ducks as just that, a duck, and not as living beings?

(if these people need money, there are millions of jobs out there where you don't have to kill)

[GooseHinson]

I'm seriously SERIOUSLY considering turning vegetarian after watching this. Animals have souls, they feel pain, pleasure. If one gets killed for food, it should die as painlessly as possible. Nowadays, that's just not being done. That's the problem I have.