forum: Leftovers
#11 Sun 11 Feb 07 1:22pm
Elvis Parsley
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Re: ETHICS
Maybe she's a duck with a grudge.
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#12 Sun 11 Feb 07 2:52pm
Cindy
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I thought pate de foie came from geese??
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#13 Sun 11 Feb 07 3:19pm
Elvis Parsley
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A goose out for revenge.
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#14 Sun 11 Feb 07 3:25pm
Mrs Gibba

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she has been made to look a bit of a goose whatever
Only Jamie Oliver articles I saw this week in the press were about the Cock
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#15 Sun 11 Feb 07 3:28pm
cupcake

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Susan, you quack me up.
What's the difference between a duck with one wing and a duck with two wings?
A difference of a pinion
Moving right along ...
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#16 Sun 11 Feb 07 9:21pm
Montana

- Member since Mon 21 Feb 05
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sadie-hoshi: Foie gras can be made from either duck or goose. I've not had a chance to try the goose one - yet.
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#17 Mon 12 Feb 07 3:55pm
Pete
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Don't believe everything you read in the papers Susan...
We don't serve foie gras in any of Jamie's 15 restaurants - not because we don't approve of it, but because it doesn't really fit with the style of cooking we do. It's more the kind of thing used in fancy French Michelin star places really..
My point about intensive chicken production was that a lot of people get hysterical about foie gras when they tuck into intensively reared chicken products every day without stopping to think for a second how they're produced. You've said you don't do that, and I accept that of course, but many do.
Artisan foie gras production is light years less cruel that intensive chicken production, I know as I have seen both. The birds aren't stuffed, they're simply fed 'til they're full several times a day - they even wait outside the shed when it's time for their next feed. Their livers do swell, but this is actually natural for ducks and geese when they feed themselves up before a long migratory flight.
I think inhumane rearing of any animal should be opposed, why single out foie gras?
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#18 Fri 02 Mar 07 4:32pm
SUSAN BROXTON
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Thanks Pete for your friendly comments.
However, please now unsubscribe me from this site. I asked a genuine question in all good faith and don't expect to be called sanctimonious by Mrs. A in North Carolina, or a bit of a goose by another subscriber which achieves nothing. Thanks to those who did comment constructively though.
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#19 Fri 02 Mar 07 7:35pm
mrs.arellano
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Wow! North Carolina (Hey Ann! xx) - that's news to me, SUSAN. Perhaps you should spend a bit more time paying attention; then, conceivably, you wouldn't find yourself in such a precarious situation. Just food for thought, my darling, SUSAN BROXTON.
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#20 Sat 03 Mar 07 3:48am
GeoffP
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Susan - no need to "unsubscribe" all you need to do is to never visit the site again - which is probably a good idea.
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