RE: Foie gras producer would be victim (sic) of ban on product

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Julie Dull [dullcats]

Sunday, June 06, 2004 6:04 AM

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Re: " Foie gras producer would be victim (sic) of ban on

product "

 

 

Dear Mr. Herhold (and editor and colleagues):

 

I take objection to your article in last Thursday's paper " " Foie gras

producer would be victim (sic) of ban on product " that concludes that

the diners should decide and that the producer would be a " victim " .

 

The definition of " victim " according to my online dictionary

(http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=victim)

<http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=victim)> is:

 

 

 

1. One who is harmed or killed by another: a victim of a mugging.

 

2. A living creature slain and offered as a sacrifice during a

religious rite.

 

3. One who is harmed by or made to suffer from an act,

circumstance, agency, or condition: victims of war.

 

4. A person who suffers injury, loss, or death as a result of a

voluntary undertaking: You are a victim of your own scheming.

 

5. A person who is tricked, swindled, or taken advantage of: the

victim of a cruel hoax.

 

Clearly, the ducks are the victim's under the definition of #1 above, as

they, not the producer, is getting killed. Under #2, again I think the

only creature getting slain are the ducks. Now, under #3, the producer

may be " harmed " insofar as economically, but I take issue with the

conclusion that it would be wrong to do so; after all, history is

littered with companies and individuals harmed when the production of

substances later found to be poisonous or harmful to public health was

halted (i.e. Monsanto and dioxin, PCBs etc, pot growers and marijuana,

Coca-cola and cocaine). As for #4, I don't see how that applies, as

this is I agree involuntary on the producers part, but see #3. As for

#5, adequate pictures and video footage exists to demonstrate the

deplorable conditions these animals are kept in, so I would have to

argue that the producer of this " product " is well aware of the situation

they are kept in, and is not being tricked.

 

So who again is the victim? I am wondering what " dictionary " you may be

referring to.

 

And as for your first contention, diners for the most part are

completely unaware of the source of their food and would decide in a New

York minute never to touch foie gras if the San Jose Mercury News had

the backbone ( " Firmness; moral principle; steadfastness " ) to publish

even one picture of a man holding down a duck while forcing a 12 " tube

down its throat.

Articles such as yours merely cause a furor and raise the plight of the

animals to an even higher level of consciousness. These are defenseless

creatures. Try explaining that to your children while you also explain

how its not nice to pull the cats tail.

 

Actually I should be glad you wrote this; now I can email all my friends

at our big campus in Santa Clara (thousands of them, in fact) a link to

the www.nofoiegras.org and www.gourmetcruelty.org websites first thing

Monday morning; they all read your paper because it is sold in our

lunchroom.

 

Sincerely,

 

Julie A. Dull

1043 Crestwood Drive

South SF, CA 94080

 

Cell 650-219-9896

 

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" If humans were true carnivores, a child left in a room with a bunny and

an apple would eat the bunny and play with the apple. " - Albert

Einstein, 1879-1955

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" I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us

as equals. "

- Sir Winston Churchill

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Free Farm Animals from Cruelty, Cannibalism, Confinement and Drugs:

http://www.factoryfarming.com/gallery.htm

 

The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be

indifferent to them: that's the essence of inhumanity. " -----George

Bernard Shaw

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Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind. -

Albert Einstein

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Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.

- Albert Einstein