When is a Delicacy to Inhumane for Dinner?
In the news was an interesting controversy that forced the cancellation of an event at the Nevada Museum of Art in Reno, Nevada on February 15th. It seems that people were upset due to a foie gras tasting at an art museum because the delicacy of duck and geese liver is inhumane to the birds. They are force fed so that the liver will grow larger.
However also in Nevada, the town of Elko's county commissioners have voted to give $10,000 to NACO Nevada Association of Counties and the Nevada Farm Bureau Federation toward a suite filed with a federal court in Reno, arguing even though wild horses and burros have long been a part of Nevada’s landscape and heritage, their populations have grossly exceeded appropriate management levels. Wild horse advocates fear that this is a measure to eliminate more horses and eventually send them to slaughter. Many questions and rumors have been surfacing about what is actually done with all the horses that BLM has been rounding up over the years--at Tax Payer's expense.
So I guess it's inhumane to raise fowl for foie gras but not to stampede horses with helicopters and then do who knows what with them. This really has me pondering!
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