My favorite band, The Sisters of Mercy, has a very interesting home page. They have very interesting songs too, for those of you who read Byron and enjoy Bauhaus beats. Well, they have a drum machine called "Doktor Avalanche". He has an "Agony Aunt" page on the web, and the first question is as follows:
Dear Doktor, I am unattractiv, sexually immachure, lazy, stupid and meen. What career would sute me best? [sic]
Journalism. If you fail there, try music journalism.
Well, I'd like to add restaurant critic to the music journalism option. Mainly because I'm reading more and more comments such as "we had a duck-liver terrine, which was very good, but ethically questionable" in both broad-sheet and less respected media.
Duh. That ticks the boxes of lazy and stupid. Yes, there are many foie gras producers that force-feed their animals, but there are also many that don't. We source ours from a little french lady who hand-feeds her ducks and geese. It's quite a lot more expensive, but it's quality is better by astronomic proportions. If you want to know about how your starter has been raised - ask. If you want to avoid any ethical issues, order something else. If you disagree with the slaughtering of animals for food - boycott all and any places that serve meat. Do not make a dim presumptive statement that puts a restaurant's sourcing in question in print. That is, unless you're positive that you're actually eating an endangered species/a product of brutal handling - but that still brings into question why you ordered it in the first place.
So. I have to read these dim reviews because I'm in the business. But for the rest of you, maybe a boycott should be considered?
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