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| - True enough, this small tightly confined restaurant serves an extensive variety of foods both for breakfast and lunch.
I was shocked and dismayed, however, upon realizing that the restaurant serves foie gras (seared foie).
To produce "foie gras" (the French term means "fatty liver"), workers ram pipes down the throats of male ducks twice each day, pumping up to 2.2 pounds of grain and fat into their stomachs, or geese three times a day, up to 4 pounds daily, in a process known as "gavage."
This process is cruel and inhumane. Typically, the ducks or geese subjected to this type of torture are confined their entire lives in tight pens that do not allow enough room to even turn around.
When you consume foie, you are supporting animal cruelty - all creatures being considered as "animals" for this purpose.
When a restaurant serves foie, it is promoting animal cruelty.
Therefore, when you patronize a restaurant that promotes animal cruelty, you yourself are supporting animal cruelty.
The person(s) who owns this restaurant should be ashamed. They should immediately cease and desist from serving any food which represents the byproduct of animal cruelty.
If you are somewhat claustrophobic, you may have a difficult time maneuvering at this restaurant. The restaurant environment itself is tightly confined, consisting of two or three large couches with benches, forcing people who do not know each other to sit adjacent to one another. Makes for some very uncomfortable situations. And coffee is an astonishing $3 per cup, totally outrageous.
For ethical and moral purposes, I will not patronize this restaurant.
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