Read all about it This article describes the push to ban foie gras (as the article notes, French for "fat liver"). The ducks are fed through tubes in large quantities so that their livers enlarge. MWB is opposed to this practice. All the way. But we're opposed to 99.9% of the practices utilized in the animals-as-food production industry, and like one of the interviewees in this story notes, where does it end? I'd like people to stop kosher methods of food slaughter, fur coats, caged chickens, and god only knows what else that goes on behind the closed doors of said food production. But an MWB opinion does not earn our right to mandate that opinion via legislation. Fuh thuh luv 'a gawd, if our opinion translated into reality, here's a sample of how the world would look: - Japanese cars would not be allowed in the left lane (super-cool Infinity SUVs allowed)
- Marijuana use and abuse would be legal, mandatory, even, for the most annoying US Citizens (should we start with Ann Coulter or Hillbilly Clinton?)
- Fat people would not be allowed to buy low-rise jeans
- Writing checks at the grocery store would be a death penalty offense
Any single group, entity, think tank, whatever, shouldn't be able to legislate our lives because god knows what would happen. Now I realize the world changes described by MWB are quite enticing, but some might find them a bit extreme, just as it is extreme to legislate a single food item because a handful of activists don't like the method. Whether it's by suing the hell out of McDonald's for "making" people fat (as though that company had a tube down the fattie's necks like the ducks) or by illegalizing foie gras, the imposition of left-wing or right-wing beliefs is a dangerous, moss-covered slope and we're screamin' down it more all the time.