{"id":2082,"date":"2007-02-05T10:16:56","date_gmt":"2007-02-05T18:16:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2007\/02\/ducks_shake_in_their_dumb_little_webbed_feet_when_foie_gras_makers_say_its_time_to_pump_things_up.html"},"modified":"2008-01-24T14:08:32","modified_gmt":"2008-01-24T19:08:32","slug":"ducks_shake_in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2007\/02\/ducks_shake_in.html","title":{"rendered":"Ducks Shake In Their Dumb Little Webbed Feet When Foie Gras Makers Say &#8220;It&#8217;s Time To Pump Things Up&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Foie gras proponents are really starting to sound like <a href=\"http:\/\/nymag.com\/news\/intelligencer\/27379\/index.html\">Bush circa May 2003<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>City Council Speaker Christine Quinn has come out for foie gras, leaving anti-foie forces to focus on Fairway, which hung a banner in December boasting FAIRWAY IS FOIE GRAS CENTRAL, belittling anti\u00e2\u20ac\u201cfoie gras activists. Protests there are planned every weekend starting February 11. &#8220;Ain&#8217;t no yogis eating foie gras,&#8221; says yogi Russell Simmons, who will hold an April 7 anti-foie fund-raiser at Jivamukti. &#8220;It&#8217;s barbaric, it&#8217;s crazy, people are sheep. Dominion over the animals does not mean we abuse them. I sit here and watch people eat steak and eat foie gras and do stupid shit all day long. I&#8217;m really not an angry vegan, but human beings are fucking rude.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If it weren&#8217;t so funny, it would be sad,&#8221; says Fairway partner Steven Jenkins, who claims the &#8220;foie gras weirdos&#8221; are &#8220;doing nothing more than preying on the guilt-ridden liberals of the Upper West Side.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, foie gras manufacturers are licking their fingers. &#8220;Every time they protest, sales go up,&#8221; says Michael Ginor, co-founder of Hudson Valley Foie Gras, which employs over 150 people and slaughters 6,000 ducks a week. Foie gras production is a $20 million industry in New York State. &#8220;People who eat foie gras eat foie gras. They will not stop. What they&#8217;re doing is teaching a whole new group of people to eat foie gras. I guess it&#8217;s time for me to tell my guys to go pump things up.&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Bring it on!<\/p>\n<p>Earlier: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2007\/02\/the_greatest_gu.html\">The Greatest Gustatory Pleasure Of All Possibly Fleeting?<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Foie gras proponents are really starting to sound like Bush circa May 2003: City Council Speaker Christine Quinn has come out for foie gras, leaving anti-foie forces to focus on Fairway, which hung a banner in December boasting FAIRWAY IS FOIE GRAS CENTRAL, belittling anti\u00e2\u20ac\u201cfoie gras activists. Protests there are planned every weekend starting February [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-feed"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2082","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2082"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2082\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}