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Prince backs campaign against foie gras



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AN ANIMAL rights group's campaign against the French delicacy foie gras has won the backing of the Prince of Wales.
Joyce Moss, an activist with Vegetarians International Voice for Animals (Viva), wrote to him after she saw foie gras on sale at House of Cheese, in Tetbury, Gloucestershire, which is "by appointment" to the prince.

His officials replied saying Prince Charles did not use foie gras in his residences and that the House of Cheese's policy would be addressed when its royal warrant is reviewed.

Viva says the sale of foie gras – a paté made from the liver of a specially fattened duck or a goose – endorses animal cruelty.





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  • Last Updated: 26 February 2008 9:54 PM
  • Source: The Scotsman
  • Location: Edinburgh
  • Related Topics: The Monarchy
 
1

Yane,

27/02/2008 01:22:49
Me neither - dunno if it was foie gras but that stuff I bought from the local deli gave me the skitters - I wonder if that's why the Prince doesn't use it in his residences. Tell the Prince that shrimp paste is nice on toast - or avocado if you wanta be totally pc.
2

Guga II,

Rockall 27/02/2008 04:06:05
He may not use foie gras in his residences, but it doesn't stop him participating in blood sports. Not that the flap eared parasite is a hypocrite or anything.
3

TimW1234,

Ottawa, Canada 27/02/2008 07:16:54
Guga II

Your unrelenting anti-monarchism is becoming tiresome.

Foie gras is a delicacy I have tasted but rarely but have relented in consuming it because of the cruel way it is manufactured and its exorbitant cost at restaurants here in Canada.

The Prince of Wales is way ahead of his time and will be one of the most intelligent and innovative kings that Great Britain will ever have - rivalling Charles II and George III.
4

donald,

glasgow 27/02/2008 08:20:10
Noddy backs Big Ears.
5

iain morrison,

nairn 27/02/2008 09:23:44
So much for a non-political monarchy.

Foie Gras is a wonderful food and we should not give any more ground to the veggie facists.
6

Alternative (High Octane) Fuel Head,

Edinburgh 27/02/2008 10:32:08
Bloody hell! Not content with banging on about snares, they are now moaning about a bit of duck liver pate. Whatever next?

The Prince of Wales should be ashamed of himself for giving a group of nutters credibility.
7

Conan the Librarian™,

27/02/2008 11:00:31
7
I agree with the first three letters of your last word.
8

The Former Mr. Angry,

Perth 27/02/2008 16:28:29
For a moment I got slightly confused between the House of Windsor and House of Cheese. Oh maybe not. It is a load of quiche!
9

Geoff,

sa 27/02/2008 16:28:42
7 AM2-well said!
6 Iain Morrison- Foie Gras is not really a high profile political issue-no?
10

Geoff,

sa 27/02/2008 16:30:59
11-the Former Mr. Angry-loving your moderate new tone
11

Fanling,

Taiwan 27/02/2008 18:01:45
I tasted foie gras a long time ago in France and was threatening to be violently seik. (OK, maybe it was the wine on an unaccustomed young tummy.) Black pudden for me is the dog's boll*cks. Yum. (The ga-ga censors at The Scotsman don't allow me or anyone to say dog's b*ll*cks although the idiot in charge apparently does not know that it is a valid entry in the latest Oxford English Dictionary.) Pathetic. The Scotsman newspaper is a lost cause, I fear, in 21st-century Scotbritland.
12

Doreen,

The Cyber Shebeen 27/02/2008 19:37:57
Good move...hopefully more people will realise that the fabrication of this product involves barbaric cruelty and it is actually diseased liver that people are eating...the female chicks are no use and are minced alive to be made into animal feed...the male birds are force fed..have ruptured throats..get blood poisening..are attacked by rats..and if they do not die because of this then their livers burst and they die in agony....as any living creature would, with a ruptured liver....the pain must be horrendous...
13

Alternative (High Octane) Fuel Head,

Edinburgh 27/02/2008 22:58:55
Doreen,

Where exactly do you get your ideas from?

People eat diseased liver. Yeah. Right.
14

TimW1234,

Ottawa, Canada 28/02/2008 12:11:02
14 Fanling in Taiwan

If you think The Scotsman is a "lost cause" the solution is quite simple: stop reading it and then we won't have to read your vacuous postings.

I think even you can understand the indisputable logic of my solution to YOUR problem.

 

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