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<div>No, not a joke.</div>
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<div>I read about this before the current discussion on Vision2020 about foie gras being served in Moscow. The city once famous for its animal butchering industry now is championing animal rights:</div>
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<div><a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://www.suntimes.com/output/news/26foiegras.html" target="_blank">http://www.suntimes.com/output/news/26foiegras.html</a></div>
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<div>Can you imagine the reaction if the Moscow City Council enacted such a ban at this point in time? Zoning codes are abstract, but telling people what they can eat really gets people riled up...Yes, indeed, banning foie gras is no doubt part of the secular humanist stealth religion being secretly foisted upon us via love for cute harmless animals. The diabolical genius of those liberal secularists! We must be ever vigilant.
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<div>Chicago is also attempting to seriously address environmental issues with action, not just talk. The city is building roof top gardens, and is pursuing alternative energy, and numerous other "green" projects:
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<div><a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/0710/p02s02-ussc.html" target="_blank">http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/0710/p02s02-ussc.html</a></div>
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<div><a href="http://www.consciouschoice.com/2002/cc1504/aboltinterview1504.html">http://www.consciouschoice.com/2002/cc1504/aboltinterview1504.html</a></div>
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<div>Ted Moffett</div>
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<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 8/18/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">J Ford</b> <<a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="mailto:privatejf32@hotmail.com" target="_blank">privatejf32@hotmail.com
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<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">You can not be this blind...oh, wait - yes you can, em are.<br><br>Point is, you can not get the type of "liver product" that you are wanting
<br>to sell, in any other manner. 'Tis a sick and disgusting thing to over-feed<br>any animal simply to gorge yerself on it carcass once that animal reaches<br>the bursting point. What pain, what horror must those animals go through
<br>before you whack off their heads?!<br><br>No animal that is "free-ranged" will get its liver to the point of no return<br>- it is man's inhumanity towards a defenseless animal that does it and<br>simply to satisfy a sick need to fill yer own gullet that prompts it.
<br><br>Personally, I hate liver of any kind. The verra thought of eating an organ<br>that is used by any animal as a "filter" for their body is disgusting.<br><br>J :]<br><br><br><br><br><br>>From: "Daniel Foucachon" <
<a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="mailto:daniel@lyonministries.com" target="_blank">daniel@lyonministries.com</a>><br>>To: <a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="mailto:vision2020@moscow.com" target="_blank">
vision2020@moscow.com</a><br>>Subject: [Vision2020] Foie Gras<br>>Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2006 07:43:52 -0700 <br>><br>>Thank you for your concerns. The way geese and ducks are usually raised for<br>>foie gras is a questionble practice. The ethics of this practice were
<br>>brought up in an Aesthetic Gastronomy class taught at New Saint Andrews <br>>College last year, and since then I have been looking for a provider who<br>>raises ducks and geese in an apporopiate manner.<br>>
<br>>We use free-range chickens at West of Paris. Have you researched how the <br>>chickens are raised that are sold in most any restaurant or grocery store?<br>><br>>Bonne Journée,<br>><br>>Francis<br><br>
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