{"id":1746,"date":"2007-06-13T16:53:16","date_gmt":"2007-06-13T21:53:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/austin.metblogs.com\/2007\/06\/13\/dale-rice-and-foie-gras-debate-in-austin\/"},"modified":"2007-06-13T16:53:16","modified_gmt":"2007-06-13T21:53:16","slug":"dale-rice-and-foie-gras-debate-in-austin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/archive\/dale-rice-and-foie-gras-debate-in-austin\/","title":{"rendered":"Dale Rice and Foie Gras Debate in Austin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dale Rice had <a href=\"http:\/\/www.austin360.com\/blogs\/content\/shared-gen\/blogs\/austin\/dalestable\/entries\/2007\/06\/12\/stirring_the_pot_over_foie_gra.html\">blog post<\/a> yesterday foreshadowing his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.austin360.com\/food_drink\/content\/food_drink\/stories\/2007\/06\/0613dalesdish.html\">Statesman article today<\/a> about foie gras. I was the first to comment on the blog post, which was followed by the typical uninformed anti-foie gras blather. I tried to continue posting over there, but I can&#8217;t stand waiting for comments to appear and you can&#8217;t use HTML (thanks, Statesman).<\/p>\n<p>This is a debate that&#8217;s already been going on around the country for the past year or so. Chefs Anthony Bourdain and Michael Ruhlman are at the forefront defending foie gras when a ban was threatened in NYC. There&#8217;s a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/mwt\/feature\/2006\/10\/05\/ruhlman_bourdain_foie\/index_np.html\">Salon article from last year<\/a>, a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.megnut.com\/2006\/09\/foie-inanity-reaches-new-york\">Ruhlman post<\/a> on Megnut and <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.ruhlman.com\/ruhlmancom\/2006\/11\/foie_this_is_ge.html\">several<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.ruhlman.com\/ruhlmancom\/2007\/03\/a_quick_1_b4_i_.html\">more<\/a> on his <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.ruhlman.com\/ruhlmancom\/2007\/03\/throwing_down_t.html\">own blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>So now the debate is here (6-12 months behind the rest of the country as usual) and I have to deal with it.<\/p>\n<p>I happen to not just like foie gras. I love it. I only get a chance to eat it once or twice a year, but it&#8217;s not for Noah Cooper and his cronies to decide whether or not I can have it. I&#8217;d like to know how many foie gras farms he&#8217;s personally visited? How many commercial poultry farms or commercial pork farms like Smithfield, which was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/politics\/story\/12840743\/porks_dirty_secret_the_nations_top_hog_producer_is_also_one_of_americas_worst_polluters\">profiled in Rolling Stone<\/a> recently? Has he read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.michaelpollan.com\/write.php\">Omnivore&#8217;s Dilemma<\/a>? I have. It made me switch from eating commercially produced beef to trying to find grass-fed alternatives.<\/p>\n<p>I made that choice.  Am I on a campaign to get Austin restaurants to stop serving steak? No. So stay the hell away from my foie gras.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dale Rice had blog post yesterday foreshadowing his Statesman article today about foie gras. I was the first to comment on the blog post, which was followed by the typical uninformed anti-foie gras blather. 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