Thursday May 15, 2008, 10:22 am
how is this "good news" ????

You're kidding right? You can watch the videos and see the photos of how this is made and still think its ok? Let alone put it in your body?

Thursday May 15, 2008, 10:29 am
This is NOT good news~it is DISGUSTING!!!!! Foie Gras is INHUMANE AND CRUEL!!! How ANYone could participate in this horrific practice is beyond me!!!!

Thursday May 15, 2008, 10:33 am
I can not note such news!

Thursday May 15, 2008, 11:35 am
I agree that America is Freedom of choice but no animal should ever be force fed anything - and the fact that people are obviously ignoring this fact shows how uneducated we all are. I for one do not support the fact that they lifted the ban. It makes me sad to think how inhumane we have all become in this world.

Thursday May 15, 2008, 11:39 am
I cant believe people eat that knowing what goes on....greedy, selfish and heartless. Heartless. boycott hasbro.

"Animal rights groups decry foie gras as a product of inhumane treatment as it is made by force-feeding geese and ducks through a steel pipe put down their throats, expanding their livers to 10 times normal size."

Thursday May 15, 2008, 11:56 am
I noted this before I read it. I commented a little while ago to Chicago of how disgusted I am that they are bringing this barbaric act back. THIS IS NOT GOOD NEWS AT ALL. Sorry I noted it. Chicago is uncivilized.

Thursday May 15, 2008, 12:00 pm
Take action, people of Chicago, you did it once, you can do it again. Freedom of choice should not stop with humans, and it should never infringe on the welfare of another.

Thursday May 15, 2008, 12:13 pm
I noted the news to make friends aware about Laurie T.
Thanks to such people the bad things happen - they do what they want without of thinking if it is ok or not.
Laurie T. and what if some day somebody will want to eat you (after torturing of course) in your FREE AMERICA ????

Thursday May 15, 2008, 12:21 pm
LAURIE--IT WOULD BE MUCH BETTER FOR THE ANIMALS--IF PEOPLE THAT LIKE FOIE GRAS--WENT TO A RESTAURANT--ORDER FOIE GRAS--THE WAITER COMES OUT AN FORCES A TUBE DOWN YOUR THROAT AND FILLS YOU UP! THAT WOULD BE MUCH BETTER! I WOULD NEVER NOTE SUCH A CRUEL STORY AS THIS! SHAME--SHAME--SHAME!

Thursday May 15, 2008, 12:28 pm
NOT, I REPEAT NOT NOTED....NOT GOOD NEWS AT ALL:
Foie gras is one of the most sickening examples of humans' using cruelty to get “luxury.” The term “foie gras” literally means “fatty liver.” It is the bloated liver of male ducks and geese who are force-fed enormous quantities of food until their livers expand well beyond their normal size. Workers ram pipes down the birds' throats two or three times a day and pump as much as 4 pounds of grain and fat into the animals' stomachs while the birds desperately struggle to get away.5,6,7 The pipes puncture many birds' throats, sometimes causing them to bleed to death or suffer painful wounds. On some farms, a single worker may be expected to force-feed 500 birds three times each day.8 Because of this rush, animals are often treated roughly and left injured and suffering.

Many birds have difficulty standing because of their engorged livers, and they may tear out their own feathers and cannibalize each other because of stress.9 Undercover video footage taken at Sonoma Foie Gras shows rats eating the flesh of live ducks who are too bloated and crippled to defend themselves.

This torture lasts 12 to 21 days and causes the birds' livers to bloat until they are up to 10 times their normal size.10 Because of the injuries and disease caused by force-feeding, the death rates on foie gras farms are between 10 and 25 times higher than the mortality rates on other duck and geese farms, and carcasses of animals from these farms show wing fractures and severe tissue damage to the throat muscles.11

Thursday May 15, 2008, 12:34 pm
One day we all be eaten but we couldnt be worried about it.
Neverending life circle ;))

Thursday May 15, 2008, 12:49 pm
NOT Noted, Sad News Indeed!
"Today, that compassionate decision was reversed in a secretive, rushed bow to special interests that benefit from the cruel treatment of animals. It goes against what the vast majority of Chicagoans believe in."

Thursday May 15, 2008, 12:50 pm
This is NOT good news. Chicago will now be known as a cruel city for having foie gras on menus in city restaurants.

TY, Laurie.

Thursday May 15, 2008, 12:57 pm
I will not note your news.This is very sad news,and I cannot believe you see this as good news.Did you ever see what they do to these animals?????

This so called delicacy is plain torture.
It's terribly cruel Inserting a pipe into 12 weeks old birds throats. The amount of grain pushed down into their throat is comparible to an adult human being eating up to 28 lbs(13kg).
That's how foie gras(fatty liver) is produced.

Thursday May 15, 2008, 1:34 pm
This person is someone we all have come across before..... i remember you well !! you haunted my news stories ...and i am sorry to see you back here again ... go away ....this is the wrong thing to be allowing to happen ... and it is disgusting to make an animal suffer for our own pleasure....called sadistic ! .... remember me ? grrrrrr

Thursday May 15, 2008, 2:14 pm
ALL OUR COMMENTS ABOUT CHINA ARE GONE...CAUSE SOME IDIOTS DONT LIKE FREEDOM OF SPEECH ..& THIS OUTRAGEOUS & PROVOCATIVE POST IS HERE ...I WONT EVER WASTE MY SALIVA TO REPLY TO YOU Laurie T.
SEE NOW WHY I SAY IS A JOKE BEING HERE & TRYING TO ACT AS A REAL AR????!!!..IM DONE ..GOOD LUCK & WISH YOU MUCH OF ENERGY & STRONG NERVES TO KEEP UP WITH THIS BS ..

Thursday May 15, 2008, 2:19 pm
Mayor Richard Daley had called the ban the "silliest ordinance" Well I khope they all choke on it..Freaks. The ones who eat this Doo-Doo are complete dam idiots. Look at the poor ducks and what they suffer...too bad ya cant do this to those who eat this crap..

Big GOrilly Hugs

Thursday May 15, 2008, 2:38 pm
You up there love Fordge feeding where is your head Hello!!!! is there anything in there at all?!!! I hope you chock on you sweet forged eggs maybe if they shoved the tube down your throath everyday and you got chocked maybe you wouldn't be opening your big ass mouth. The heck with this Bull Jiven Crap!!!! If ya can't say what ya think but people can hang around and say what they want and insult other people Enought already!!!. There's a whole lot of Crap going on around here and I'm fixing to plugh it up!!!! Songbird

Thursday May 15, 2008, 2:43 pm
Disgusting. What a setback.
Please, keep this practiced banned. It is cruel, animal torture.

Thursday May 15, 2008, 2:53 pm
"All i did was post the news. i have never stated my stance on this subject. I merely posted the article"
..One of your tags is "YUMMY"...And here is a quote from you, remember?.."I love FOIE gras and America is so great that it is my choice to eat it,or NOT".

Thursday May 15, 2008, 2:58 pm
some people have a demented sense of humour!

Thursday May 15, 2008, 3:01 pm

Laurie T. (30)
Thursday May 15, 2008, 10:36 am
I think it is great when more people are concerned with Foie gras, then Hasbro making FEMA camp toys for kids. Glad to see these peoples lives are in perspective. I love FOIE gras and America is so great that it is my choice to eat it,or NOT.

America is Freedom of choice, Not Fascism

Thursday May 15, 2008, 3:02 pm
You don't remember what you write?????

Thursday May 15, 2008, 3:10 pm
lmao

now that's funny!!!!

Thursday May 15, 2008, 3:12 pm
laurie...guys we always wont see eye to eye....I for one no likie this duck thingy going on...It is CRUEL, but until we keep on keeping and fighting it,it wont stop....

Big Gorilly Hugs....

Thursday May 15, 2008, 3:18 pm
Theres nothing here to be joking about. Animals, Geese and ducks are tortured everyday just so people can have some status symbol for an appetizer??? please dont joke about what myself asnd many other activists here fight for everyday, for the helpless and voiceless victims of peoples abuse and in this case, greedy, unnecessary torture for a snack.

Thursday May 15, 2008, 3:22 pm
Laurie and to whom else eats this one day it will be banned across the US and elsewheres...And I will be in the fight to stop it...No offense Laurie it is a free country and you are quite capable of eating what you wish until it is outlawed...Much luck to you dear...No I do not hate you or think bad of you either...I just wish you could understand the Ducks pain that they go through....It is just horrid....

Big GOrilly Hugs

Thursday May 15, 2008, 3:47 pm
thought it was us sticking our nose in something we probably shouldn't have even been in," Alderman Dick Mell told the Chicago Sun-Times newspaper, adding that veal calves and chickens also suffer in confinement.

"There's some cruelty out there, folks

LISTEN UP THOSE THAT RELISH THE FREEDOM OF CHOICE IN THE UNITED STATES. IT IS EXACTLY YOUR KIND OF MENTALITY AND GREEDY SENSORY PERVERSE PALATE THAT ENABLES GREEDY SADISM PERPETRATED ON HELPLESS INNOCENT ANIMALS FOR WHAT YOUR PLEASURE PALATE? YES YOUR MENTALITY THAT DRIVES THE CRUELTY MARKET AND TORTURE OF THESE AND IM CERTAIN OTHER ANIMALS YOU HAVE MADE YOUR STOMACH A VERITABLE WAREHOUSE OF A CEMETARY FOR. THE MOST PATHETIC & TRAGIC BIRDS EYE VIEW WE HAVE RIGHT HERE OF WHAT PEOPLE BELIEVE TO BE THEIR RIGHT TO INFLICT PAIN AND SUFFERING ON OTHER SENTIENT BEINGS FOR THEIR SALIVARY GLANDS TO ENJOY
THE UTTER CLASSLESSNESS SPRITUAL DECADENCE AND DECLINE IN THE ETHICS AND MORALS OF INTEGRITY RIGHT HERE AND NOW. THANKYOU SO MUCH FOR INFORMING US OF YOUR RIGHT OF FREE CHOISIR, SO ELEGANT SO VERY SPIRITUALY ELEGANT TO FORCE FEED ANOTHER SENTIENT BEING IN AGONY. AND YOUR SHEER UNMITIGATED NARCISSISTIC JOYFUL TRULY ENLIGHTENING POST . YES YOU ARE ONLY TOO RIGHT AS AN AMERICAN YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO CHOOSE. AND AS A CANNABAL IN A CANNABALISTIC SOCIETY YOU WOULD HAVE THE RIGHT TO CHOOSE TO EAT ANOTHER HUMAN BEINGS FLESH INDEED YOU WOULD.

Thursday May 15, 2008, 3:59 pm
LMAO...Sophia...LMAO....wondered when you were gonna chime in on this...Big Gorilly Hugs to you my dear..

Oh great you had to remind me about the veal calves...and thier sweet faces the poor dears...never tough veal..ewwwwwwwww

Thursday May 15, 2008, 5:16 pm
Thankyou Laurie. We need this news so that we can start to think of ways to change this.

Thursday May 15, 2008, 5:19 pm
Thanx Sophia, well said and from your heart I know it is, my CARING CARE 2 friend.