[100% veg*n ] cruel delicacy

[Guest guest]

never heard it was starlings

the birds that i know they eat are little songbirds...they drap a towel over the

customers head to catch the squirt..the customer holds onto the beak and eats

the whole thing...

the songbird in question(sorry, brain skipping a beat, fergets wot it is) use to

be really common, and now it is endangered apparantly...

i read this, oh, maybe a decade or so ago, so, most of the details are a bit

fuzzy nowadays...damn this old age....

cheers

fraggle

 

" Dee Matheson " <dmatheson72 wrote:

 

>Has anyone else heard about this cruel delicacy in France? Beleive it or

>not, it's starlings! I recently heard they only serve it in certain

>'underground' restaurants. The reason being that what they are doing is

>illegal. The birds fly near the windows of the restaurants and are then

>caught in a net. Next they are kept in a tiny box filled with grain. Because

>it's dark inside, the bird doesn't know if it's night or day, and can't do

>anything else, so it just eats and eats until it gets extremely fat. When a

>customer orders one, the bird is taken out of the box and [this is the

>cruelest bit] drowned in alcohol!! It is then boiled and given to the

>customer, who apparently has to wear a cover over their head while they eat

>it. These are such  great lengths to go to, and for what? I can't understand

>this sick practice at all.

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>Dee

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[Guest guest]

It's beyond me what some people will do! It sometimes seems that the more

cruelty involved, the more they get a kick out of it.

Love Shell.