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hizgeorgiapeach -> RE: South Los Angeles banning new fast food outlets (7/31/2008 6:28:30 AM)
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ORIGINAL: Aynne
Do you think people that dine on fois gras actually stuff themselves with it? Besides let's be reaslitic, that is not the issue here. However, if the practice of tube feeding ducks and geese to procure fois gras bothers you, have you ever visited a large farm? Giant factory farms where cattle are crammed in, diseased, covered in feces, and pumped with the same if not worse steriods you rant of? By the way, where I purchse the *tiny* bit of fois gras I use is 100% organic and steriod and hormone free. I can assure you that the meat in the supermarket can make no such claims. Let alone the abomination done to chickens in factory farming. Sickening.
Yes I have, Aynne - which is why I buy all my Beef, Chicken, Lamb, Pork, and Buffalo from small local farmers that sell through a coop. The coop maintains certain standards, and has no qualms about dumping member-producers that don't meet or exceed those standards. In fact, one of the biggest rules for meat producers in the coop I'm a member of is that the meat has to be steroid free, antibiotic free, free range - preferably certified organic. I buy meat specifically once a month, when I put in my coop order on the 1st to pick up around the 17th. It was one of the reasons I joined the coop - so I could effectively speak with my purchasing dollars by Refusing to buy at the supermarket for such. I buy the Majority of my groceries through that coop - seasonal fruits and veggies, which I'm currently canning and freezing for use through the winter are in the majority right now - whole wheat locally grown and locally milled, which I use to make my own breads rather than buying at the store, along with locally grown/milled spelt, quinoa, oats, and barley as well for the same purpose. Whole dairy, both goat and cow - milk, cream, cheese, freerange eggs, buttermilk that's a byproduct rather than cultured - from organically raised dairy animals not pumped full of various drugs and who are free range like the meat animals are. Locally produced honey and honeycomb and beeswax. (The beeswax I use for things like lip balm and as part of the emulsifer for lotions.)
Other than things like house cleaning products, paper products, and cooking oil I spend almost no money at the grocery store these days. It's all coop and farmer's market bought instead.
As for whether I think that those who actually Enjoy froi gras (which I've had and was less than impressed with, along with caviar which was just flat out nasty - and this from someone who loves Sushi and Soshimi, despite being raised around people who consider it "bait"!) - over consumption is over consumption. I'm far from one to shun the sort of resturant that happens to have Froi Gras on the menu as a choice - but you're just as likely to see overweight folks in those as in a McD's or other fast food place. Our collective lifestyle in the west does not particularly Encourage people not to overconsume on multiple levels - from eatting to much to having a tv in every room (I personally find it beyond ludicrous that they now sell Refriderators that have a TV and DVD/CD player in the door!!!) to buying newer/better/bigger/shinier/smaller/more-up-to-the-minute this and that. The root of the problem is NOT the type of food being eatten - it is the mentality of overconsumption, and the fact that our society As A Whole applauds and rewards those who do so with yet more TO consume - more variety, the latest gadgets, and keeping up with the Joneses.
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