If you’re in DC, vote yes on Initiative 86Suppose you learned that your neighbor Fred kept geese in small cages in his basement. He shoved a tube down their throats to force feed them sickening quantities of food, causing their livers to grow to many times their normal size. After a short period, he killed them. This was done because fattening their liver made it tastier.Fred would be doing something evil. For the same reasons, the foie gras industry is evil.It is a remarkable fact that even in a country with as deplorable a disregard for animal welfare as America, foie gras is so cruel as to be almost synonymous with animal cruelty. This synonymity is well earned; foie gras is evil and grotesque. DC is currently voting on Initiative 86 which would ban foie gras. They should vote yes.Foie gras has been consistently condemned https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foie_gras_controversy#EU_Scientific_Committee_on_Animal_Health_and_Welfare_report_(1998) as inhumane by outside bodies reviewing it. It involves shoving a metal pipe down the throat of the ducks and force feeding them so that their livers grow to many times their normal size. While it’s often claimed that ducks don’t have a gag reflex, this is unclear. https://modernfarmer.com/2015/01/weekly-glean-artificially-enlarged-liver/
>>5171814There are many ways that foie gras production causes grievous distress to ducks: https://www.wellbeingintlstudiesrepository.org/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1001&context=agreportsThe ducks are fed sickeningly large amounts extremely quickly.If the corn gets stuck in the duck’s esophagus, it’s sometimes pushed down with a stick.Corn mash used to fatten up ducks is nutritionally inadequate.Foie gras has its distinct taste because of the fat in the duck’s liver. Ordinary duck livers are about 5% fat. Foie gras ducks’ livers are 50% fat. This causes serious liver diseases in the fattened ducks.Behavioral evidence indicates ducks find the process very distressing.“Force-feeding can cause a number of injuries: pain and injury from handling caused by the tubing of the forcefeeding funnel; trauma caused by injecting a high-temperature corn mash; bruising or perforation of the esophagus when the pipe is inserted; hemorrhaging and inflammation of the neck resulting from too forcible an introduction of the pipe to the throat; or asphyxia caused by food improperly forced into the trachea.Wounds of the esophagus may subsequently become infected with opportunistic pathogens.”About half of foie gras ducks break bones.Liver expansion makes it hard for the ducks to walk properly. Imagine your liver swelling to such a size that you can barely walk.While in an ordinary 2 week period, mortality rate for a duck is .2%, during the foie gras feeding period, the mortality rate is 2-4%.Like many other farmed animals, foie gras ducks are crammed together with little space.
If you did this to a dog, everybody would agree you were torturing it (I tried to get ChatGPT to make me an image of what this would look like, unsurprisingly, it refused). If you shoved a metal pipe down a dog’s throat and force fed it to such sickening extremes that its liver increased in size ten-fold, causing it great distress, obviously that would be monstrous. Foie gras is similarly cruel.So what do the defenders of foie gras say in response?One thing they say is that ducks naturally gorge, leading to expanded livers. But this involves liver size increasing a little bit, at most around 50%, not 700%. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC13603795/
>>5171814But it tastes good!
>>5171834>ban circumcision>but infant foreskins taste good!
Never had it Any good?
>>5171814Never heard of it before but I'm suprised this shit is legal. Hopefully the vote gets passed
>>5171837If you like patè you'll love foie gras. Similar, but with a more mild liver flavor and a richer more fatty taste/texture.
Can’t, too busy voting against new taxes
>>5171836You eat infant foreskins?
>>5171814America is one of the few countries to not have outlawed foie gras and attempts to do so got overturned later. Even Israel has outlawed it. Imagine being worse than that.
>>5171814>he says as he walks by a homeless person and thinks “get a job”Vegans are vegan because they know they’re bad people but can’t redeem themselves among people.
why does france love strangling birds so much
You already made this thread and now I am certain this is a NGO bot thread now.
>>5171891this is my second time posting it and the only other time I posted it was on a different board
>>5171848You don't?
>>5171908Yeah but you still sound like a whiny corporate bitch
>>5171919I wish I was being paid
>>5171919corporations are the ones supporting this
No. Not the paddle daddies. Not the wacky quacky bois. Not the heckin dabbleridoos. Not the fox maskerinos. No. Not the breadcumb buddies. No.
stupid nigger dc rich kid go fuck yourself
OP just lost an argument on /pol/ where he was unable to categorically call all bestiality objectively wrong without giving up on his ethical base, btwHe was about to be extra BTFO before the thread archive>w-w-w-well the 1000lb horse is being harmed... somehowNope, the harm argument doesn't work. You can't base morals on feeling good and feeling bad or you'll just turn into a hedonist of some kind. If you don't have higher standards in service of mankind rather than in service of... abstract feelings... you basically don't have morals besides "feel good, dont feel bad, have empathy".Natural order/moral hygiene chad AKA me totally fucking wrecked youAlso OP is the same guy who admitted he'd kill farmers to protect cows
>>5171988(in case it isn't clear, I oppose bestiality as an inherently satanic act that literally destroys the moral base at its psychosocial roots in addition to its practical concerns such as potentially creating new STDs)
>>5171908That's an obvious lie >>5170324
>>5171933NGOs pay the protestors. So its a job.Coporate bitch
>>5172089yeah man we're all getting paid to protest on the 4chan animals & nature board
>>5172099Weirder have happened here, and NGOs constantly try to increase engine search results on indexed sites (with 4chan being one of the most active for that).
>>5171814Please don't post animal cruelty here.
