Demonica_Erotica January 4, 20071

There is a lot to comment on but I suppose I will make this short. Is there really something wrong with making other species suffer just because we like the way they taste? I would think any rational, compassionate human being would think so.....if they changed their perspective. Factory farming of any animal is not the "food chain." That is a poor justitfication for what we do to them. I commend the writer for having doubts about fois gras, and also agree that there are other forms of factory farming cruelties out there. They are all bad, but some are just a little more disturbing then others, and for me fois gras is one of them.
We eat them because we like to and that's the bottom line. We definitely do not need to, so as long as the industry and consumers continue to try and rationalize systematic abuse as OK, they will continue to be protested against.

hynikken January 6, 20072

Please point me to your fridge... Would be a shame to let it go to waste.

dee12345 January 9, 20073

I am deeply disturbed by this article depicting what these geese have to go through on a daily basis. Are you doing the article to promote animal cruelty? That is what it sounds like, and it is also the main reason many countries have banned foie gras!

I do not like the idea of a company promoting animal cruelty so deliberately. I hope in the future that you will reconsider posting such articles.

arianah January 22, 20074

This article is ridiculous. Did the author even attempt to talk to anyone other than the foie gras producers themselves? If she had, she might have learned that the rate of mortality on foie gras is twenty times that of conventional duck farming.

She might have learned that the reason the ducks are panting is that their hugely-enlarged livers are pressing against their air sacs, making it impossible for them to breathe without pain. She might have learned that the ducks' feathers look like crap because they are so sick that they cannot preen themselves. She might have learned that death via liver disease or asphixiation-- the fate of many foie gras ducks -- is a horribly unpleasant way to die.

Even so, it doesn't even take in-depth research or analysis to realize that inducing liver failure in an animal can never be done humanely. If the ducks are so eager for their force feeding, as the author seems to suggest, then why must they even be force fed at all? Why not let them gorge themselves into oblivion? The answer is obvious: No animal would willingly gorge itself to the point of death, to the point where its breathing and mobility is severely comprised, as is the case with foie gras ducks.

How about a little bit more objectivity next time? Where are the photos of the panting ducks with crappy-looking feathers or the ones that have died from the force feeding with food spilling out of their beaks? This is shoddy, one-sided reporting at best.

1000 October 27, 20075

What a disgusting, one-sided, ignorant article! Has anyone really seen what goes on on a foie gras farm when no one is watching? Here, indulge yourselves:

http://www.farmsanctuary.org/actionalert...

The author of this article has clearly no compassion in her heart. How else can she possibly accept all those free products after witnessing such savage cruelty?
Canadians are an apathetic bunch when it comes to cruelty to animals, especially "food" animals. Who the hell are we to inflict such suffering on other living creatures, especially for a product that is absolutely unnecessary? Quebec is so proud of their French tradition...if this is tradition, it sucks.
I won't be reading Toronto Life any more. The reporting is ridiculous.