[jyl]

I can't understand the proposed ban on farmed salmon, but I can understand the proposed ban on force-fed goose / duck products. If the force-feeding inflicts excessive pain on the animal - I imagine it does, but have never looked into it - then I don't have a problem with stopping it. Sure, we are the top of the food chain and we kill animals to eat them, that's reality. And we use animals for testing and research, and it hurts them, that's reality too. But there's no need to be unnecessarily cruel in the process.

I saw a documentary once on the preparation of dogs for eating, in China. You catch the stray dog, truss it up, administer severe electrical shocks (some theory about the fear and pain making the meat taste better), burn off the fur with a gas torch, and then you kill and butcher the dog. I'd imagine most everyone on the board thinks that's cruel and shouldn't be allowed. So the degree of cruelty involved in producing our meat is a reasonable issue to consider.