Dugat G-C '99 w/Roasted Foie Gras, etc.

[Jonathan Loesberg]

originally posted by Jay Miller:
I've heard other people swear that Burgundy and foie gras make a fine pairing. I'll have to give a try some day.

In general factory farm chickens endure far worse treatment than foie gras geese.

I agree absolutely about chicken and about industrially produced pork as well. I'm not in fact in favor of the law. I just don't think it's a nanny law. Nor do I think it's an entirely irrational one: if you have to forcefeed in the manner they do, you aren't exactly coddling the fowl, whatever ways they may have to stuff themselves to the contrary nothwithstanding. As with a lot of laws and proposed laws, the arguments in favor and against them often come down to weighing numbers of pragmatic questions against principles that only partially apply. I know that holding opinions while considering those who hold opposing ones to have a point is practically heresy on all wine boards, but, alas, this is one of those cases for me. I'll happily continue eating the stuff, and if I have to vote, I'll vote against laws banning it, but it's not an issue I feel is all that cut and dried.

 

[Oswaldo Costa]

originally posted by MLipton:

originally posted by SFJoe:
My noodle, if swelling livers are a sign of torture, this is surely an abused company!

Have you checked yours at all recently? I haven't seen mine in a dog's years, so I have no clue if it's any bigger than it used to be. No protusions that direction, though, lead me to conclude that I'm not a candidate for foie gras-hood, though I readily admit to being less than certain on that front.

Mark Lipton

I hope, for our sake, that you're less cavalier about poking the prostate.