Hello all you wonderful people. After some conectivity issues I am back...


I am also pissed off at the State of California, its law makers and the animal righs groups. They have banned the sale of Fois Gras in restaurants. Legislation that was passed in 2004 and gave Chefs and restaurant owners 7 and 1/2 years to prepair for compliance. As of July 1st this year restaurants had to remove the item from their menus or be subject to a fine.

This bill was spearheaded by animal rights groups like PETA and the ALDF, the Animal Legal Defense Fund. Now let me just say that I am all for animal rights, and I think the animals that become or food should be treated humainly. Happy animals make good food. But it has been proven that animals don't register pain the way humans do, and that the geese do not have gag reflexes so the process of la gavage probably doesn't harm the animal, and I say probably because I am not a farmer, I do not raise geese.

But I do know that as geese prepair to migrate south, they eat, and fatten themselves up for their long hard journey. And I think that historically that is how we discovered the wonderfull, buttery, rich creamy-ness that is fois gras. In my reserch I have discovered producers of fois gras that allow their geese to eat what they want, when then want and it still produces amazing fois gras without gavage.

What upsets me most about this legislation is that insted of informing people, they have taken away a person's ability to choose for themselves. I am an adult, I should be able to, when I go out to eat, make the decision myself of what I want to eat. And people of California you have taken away MY right to choose, and not just mine, every other person who visits Califrornia from now until this legislation is taken off the books.


California you were once one of Americans culinary Mecca's now you are becomming a nanny state that deprives people of the freedom to choose.


People of California I urge you to get this legislation repealed so you can once again reclaim your place at the forefront of America's food culture. Please, Please, Please...


Also with a bit of reaserch I have found that France is fireing back and urgeing chefs and restaurants to take California wines off their menus as a show of solidarity for French producers of Fois Gras that will be hurt by California's legislation.Way to go France!!!!!


As Always here the link to my video rant.