Michael Ruhlman gets to the heart of what’s actually wrong with the American meat industry. I would much rather buy meat from a “cruel, monstrous” company like D’artagnan than a “wholesome, all-American” corporation like Tyson. The hypocrisy of people arguing against foie while obliviously gorging themselves on cheap, factory farmed supermarket meat product would be astonishing were it not so prevalent. If you hate foie but love shrink-wrapped homogenous grocery store meat product, then you’re too fucking stupid to be allowed an opinion on this matter.
If [California legislators] truly care about the humane treatment of the animals we kill for food, they would do this country a better and real service by focusing not on the hundreds of thousands of ducks raised for foie gras (in relative luxury), but rather on the billions, I repeat, billions, of chicken, hogs, and cattle that are rushed through the industrial grinder so that Americans can auto-gavage on cheap, tasteless meat and their heaping platefuls of crap at Applebees and Cheesecake Factory, Burger King and McDonalds, and all traffickers of cheap, unhealthy food.
