[Vision2020] West of Paris
Joe Campbell
joekc at adelphia.net
Thu Aug 24 05:38:38 PDT 2006
Is there a connection between foie gras and abortion?
If you think there is, Doug, then you too should protest if foie gras is served at West of Paris. If you think there is no connection between them, it should not surprise you that Megan and Saundra don't see a connection either.
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Joe Campbell
---- heirdoug at netscape.net wrote:
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So Miss Prusynski and Mrs. Lund,
It is good to see the level of insight and reasearch that has taken
place over this discusting practice. Thank you for the information and
your steadfastness in this great cause.
I only have one question, will we be saving you a place in line for the
next Pro Life rally and march?
Doug!
-----Original Message-----
From: Megan Prusynski <megan at meganpru.com>
To: Saundra Lund <sslund at adelphia.net>; vision2020 at moscow.com
Sent: Wed, 23 Aug 2006 18:12:44 -0700
Subject: Re: [Vision2020] West of Paris
Thanks Saundra, I just read the article this evening. I did talk with
Alexis at the Daily News yesterday. This is not exactly what he told
me when I e-mailed him about removing foie gras from the menu. Looks
like there is still work to do, but Mr. Foucachon will be hard-
pressed to find a "humane" foie gras producer. Don't worry, I'm fully
ready to educate him on why foie gras is an especially important
issue. I realize there are tons of animal rights issues we could
fight, such as factory farmed chicken (I've protested at Moscow's
KFC), live lobsters (anyone know of a restaurant that serves them
here, I'd be happy to talk to their owners), but as long as I've
lived here at least, I have never seen foie gras served in Moscow.
Anyone interested in helping me watch this issue and participate in
demonstrations or protests if it goes back on the menu are welcome to
contact me.
What I wanna know is, who would actually want to eat fatty diseased
duck liver after knowing what it was they were eating? Foie gras is
not a delicacy, it's a disease! Ewwwww...
~megan
Hi Megan & Visionaries:
The following article is from today's Daily News and seems to paint a
slightly different picture. In particular, I take exception with Mr.
Foucachon's statement, "He wants local activists, who got their hands
on an
outdated menu earlier this week, to know their threats of protest mean
nothing to him or his staff."
The "outdated" menu came directly from West of Paris' Web site the
very day
I posted my concerns, not from some nefarious source. And, we know
from Mr.
Foucachon's comments right here on the Viz that he was aware of the
inhumanity of the product *before* he included it on West of Paris' menu
:-(((
Anyway, here's the article:
"Foie gras controversy hits Moscow
Activists up in arms over delicacy's inclusion on restaurant menu;
item has
since been removed
By Alexis Bacharach Daily News staff writer
Published: 08-23-2006
Foie gras is no longer available at Moscow's West of Paris, but not
for the
reasons one might think.
Restaurant owner Francis Foucachon sold out of the item his first
week in
business.
He wants local activists, who got their hands on an outdated menu
earlier
this week, to know their threats of protest mean nothing to him or his
staff.
"Here is the bottom line," he said. "I ordered a small amount just to
see if
there was a demand in Moscow. It was such a huge success, we almost
sold out
our first night."
Foie gras, French for fatty liver, is produced through a process of
force-feeding ducks and geese until their livers become saturated
with fat.
Handlers insert tubes down the birds' throats and funnel pounds of
cornmeal
into their stomachs several times a day.
Megan Prusynski, a local activist with People for the Ethical
Treatment of
Animals and the Humane Society of the United States, said consumption of
foie gras went down in areas that provided focused education and
outreach
programs.
With that in mind, she's teaming with local and national groups,
including
Compassion Speaks at Washington State University, to organize
protests in
Friendship Square later this month.
"There are still a lot of people out there who don't know what foie
gras is
or how it's made," she said. "When I heard there was a restaurant in
Moscow
serving it, I started talking to people about doing some kind of
protest to
raise people's awareness - maybe get it banned."
More than a dozen countries, including Israel, Germany, the United
Kingdom,
Austria, the Czech Republic, Finland, Italy, Poland and Denmark, have
outlawed the French delicacy.
In the United States, lawmakers are proposing bans at the state and
municipal levels.
The California Legislature passed a phased ban last year on the
production
and sale of foie gras. Earlier this month, city leaders in Chicago
banned
the controversial item from all menus in the city.
"The people complaining about foie gras have a point," Foucachon
said. "The
way the birds are being stuffed is questionable, and I do believe it's
important to treat animals humanely. I will put foie gras on my menu
again
when I find a producer that doesn't engage in force feeding."
PETA spokesman Matt Prescott said that's a victory for animal rights,
because Foucachon will never find what he's looking for.
"There are producers in the industry who say their foie gras is produced
humanely, but such claims are unsubstantiated," he said.
"Investigations at
every foie gras farm has uncovered incidents of sick, dead and abused
animals. We've seen birds with holes in their throats and bloody beaks.
We've seen farms where dead birds were dangling from wires, dripping
blood
on the live birds."
Video footage and photo galleries on PETA's Web site provide images
of birds
with gaping wounds, images of blood-soaked cages and buckets full of
feathered corpses.
"No animal should be subject to torture," Foucachon said. "But these
things
they're complaining about, I would suggest American chickens are
treated far
worse than the ducks and the geese. Why aren't people writing letters
and
staging protests at the grocery stores and restaurants that sell
chicken?"
Why stop there, he asked?
Foucachon suggested protests against restaurants that cook live
lobsters.
"This is a group that was looking for something to use against my
business
and they found something," he said. "While I believe there are some
valid
concerns here, I'm not going to stop serving what people want. I will
put
foie gras on my menu again."
Alexis Bacharach can be reached at (208) 882-5561, ext. 238, or by e-
mail at
abacharach at dnews.com "
________
A Very Disappointed Saundra Lund
Moscow, ID
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good people
to do
nothing.
- Edmund Burke
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Lund.
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-----Original Message-----
From: vision2020-bounces at moscow.com [mailto:vision2020-
bounces at moscow.com]
On Behalf Of Megan Prusynski
Sent: Wednesday, August 23, 2006 11:55 AM
To: vision2020 at moscow.com
Subject: Re: [Vision2020] West of Paris
I also wanted to give you all an update on West of Paris and the foie
gras
issue. Mr. Foucachon has decided to take foie gras off the menu and I
would
like to congratulate and thank him for making the compassionate choice.
Hopefully his kind actions can be a way to educate people about just
what
goes into foie gras production and how cruel it is. Thanks very much,
Mr.
Foucachon and West of Paris. :)
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