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Sep 26, 2007 March
of the Goose Liver Everywhere you look right now there are protesters. If it’s not casinos, it’s foie gras. And this week pro-goose-torturing restaurateurs are fighting back against the hypersensitive masses pushing for the City Council ban on foie gras. The Inquirer’s Michael Klein reports that some area restaurants are gearing up to offer $5 foie gras lunch and dinner specials next week to combat the potential ban and to also flip a fatty-goosed finger to the disruptive protesters. Klein quotes chef Robert Reilly of Queen Village’s Salt & Pepper restaurant as saying “I think that with all the casualties in the war in Iraq, worrying about foie gras is kind of ridiculous. We eat pork, we eat chicken. To sympathize with these ducks, I think, is ridiculous.” True. But how many callous duck sympathizers are there impeding local businesses’ rights to serve? Plenty, says Nick Cooney of Hugs for Puppies, who references a recent animal-rights poll showing 85 percent of Pennsylvanians think foie gras is cruel. (Personal skepticism about presupposed scientific polling suggest this number may be incredibly high and possibly bullshit.) However, Cooney tells the Daily Examiner that next week’s $5 drive, orchestrated by foie gras supply king D’Artagnan, of Newark, N.J., is also a little out of whack. “It’s a laughable publicity stunt. It isn’t changing the fact that the Philadelphia restaurant industry is moving away from foie gras, and nearly all the top chefs and restaurants are moving away from it for good,” he says. Cooney couldn’t give an exact number of the restaurants that are “moving away from it,” but he did say the important-sounding website “Professionals Against Foie Gras” carries the most up-to-date listing of gavage-friendly bastards is here. So, depending upon which side of the debate you fall, either bring your appetite or your favorite goose-getting-a-hose-jammed-down-its-throat protest sign and enjoy yourself.
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