{"id":3029,"date":"2012-09-12T18:11:36","date_gmt":"2012-09-12T18:11:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=3029"},"modified":"2013-03-22T17:03:43","modified_gmt":"2013-03-22T17:03:43","slug":"down-and-foie-gras-all-in-one-lifetime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2012\/09\/down-and-foie-gras-all-in-one-lifetime\/","title":{"rendered":"Down and Foie gras all in one lifetime"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Geese are so remarkable<br \/>\nthey act as watch dogs, for<br \/>\ntheir owners they will gaggle<br \/>\nif there&#8217;s someone at the door<br \/>\nthey make a great companion<br \/>\nthey are sensitive, and can<br \/>\nbe obedient and useful and ofcourse<br \/>\nI am a fan.<br \/>\nso it upsets me to realise that<br \/>\ncertain farmers be<br \/>\nsometimes plucking their feathers<br \/>\nout wedged between their knee<br \/>\nhead down, ripping feathers<br \/>\ndenuding them no grace<br \/>\nno favours<br \/>\nits sadistic<br \/>\nand done at such a pace<\/p>\n<p>piece rate for the workers<br \/>\nwho do not care to be<br \/>\ncareful, they just tear the skin<br \/>\napart so brutally<br \/>\nWalmart and Ikea<br \/>\nseemingly appear<br \/>\nnot sure if its live plucked or<br \/>\ndead plucked<br \/>\nbut the fear<br \/>\nIs china does live plucking<br \/>\nsuch a barbaric way<br \/>\nof earning extra margin making<br \/>\nthose poor geese pay<br \/>\nmanhandling them<br \/>\nit breaks their wings<br \/>\nand legs<br \/>\ntears muscles  too<br \/>\nfor a week at least<br \/>\nthey moan<br \/>\nYes that is what they do<br \/>\nsome are killed and some<br \/>\ngo off<br \/>\nto the Foie Gras shed<br \/>\nafter being tortured, for Down<br \/>\nthey are then led<br \/>\nto suffer the indignity<br \/>\nof force feeding until<br \/>\ntheir livers get so full of fat<br \/>\nthat it actually does kill<br \/>\nthose poor geese have faced torture<br \/>\nfrom Day 1, and now they<br \/>\nhave to now be  tortured<br \/>\nuntil their dying day<br \/>\nbleeding its more agony<br \/>\nfor geese who clearly are<br \/>\nas intelligent as the workers<br \/>\nfor  some of them now star<br \/>\nin what is real life drama<br \/>\nand they are the ones whose pain<br \/>\nand stress are suffered daily<br \/>\nand again and again and again<br \/>\nthey star in this shock movie<br \/>\nthat&#8217;s played out every day<br \/>\nsupported by<br \/>\nthe corporates and the odd<br \/>\ngourmet<br \/>\nThose Shops that play on<br \/>\neclectic things high priced<br \/>\nhigh margin stuff<br \/>\ncatering for the richer set<br \/>\nwho don&#8217;t know<br \/>\nwhen enough&#8217;s enough.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Geese go through it for down as stuffing in anorak&#8217;s, pillows, and duvets this barbaric torture carried out on intelligent birds that are alive and kicking so as to make more profit.The buyers are unaware as to whether it is collected when the birds are alive or dead and most of the customers are totally ignorant of that fact <a href=\"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2012\/09\/down-and-foie-gras-all-in-one-lifetime\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[118],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-foie-gras"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3029","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3029"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3029\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6913,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3029\/revisions\/6913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}