{"id":849,"date":"2004-09-23T09:04:01","date_gmt":"2004-09-23T16:04:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/2004\/09\/will_ahnold_have_his_goose_coo\/"},"modified":"2004-09-23T09:04:01","modified_gmt":"2004-09-23T16:04:01","slug":"will_ahnold_have_his_goose_coo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2004\/09\/will_ahnold_have_his_goose_coo.html","title":{"rendered":"WILL AHNOLD HAVE HIS GOOSE COOKED?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P>Paul McCartney wants Arnold Schwarzenegger to <A class=inline\nhref=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/6073166\" target='new\"'><B><FONT color=#003399>give<br \/>\ngeese a chance<\/FONT><\/B><\/A> (second item). Jeannette Walls reports:<\/P><br \/>\n<BLOCKQUOTE>The former Beatle has written the former action star, asking him to ban foie<br \/>\ngras production in California.<br \/>\n<P>A bill outlawing the force-feeding of geese to produce the delicacy is on Governor<br \/>\nSchwarzenegger&#8217;s desk, and Sir Paul McCartney, a member of VIVA!, an animal-rights group<br \/>\npushing the bill, is hoping the governor will sign it. <\/P><br \/>\n<P>&#8220;Your signature could be the one that ends the suffering of these poor animals,&#8221; McCartney<br \/>\nwrote to the &#8220;Terminator&#8221; star in a letter dated Sept. 20. &#8220;I feel sure that your natural feelings of<br \/>\ncompassion will encourage you to sign this basic humane bill into law.&#8221;<\/P><\/BLOCKQUOTE><br \/>\n<P><\/P><br \/>\n<P>I wouldn&#8217;t&nbsp;feel so sure. If Ahnold finds it in his steroid heart to sign the bill, he&#8217;d be<br \/>\ndoing more for geese than for California&#8217;s undereducated children &#8212; and somebody might point<br \/>\nthat out to cook his political goose. But if he doesn&#8217;t sign the bill, the <A class=inline\nhref=\"http:\/\/www.geocities.com\/ateliermp\/menu1.html\" target='new\"'><B><FONT\ncolor=#003399>Endangered Species Menu<\/FONT><\/B><\/A> at THE ENDANGERED<br \/>\nSPECIES RESTAURANT in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, might&nbsp;persuade him the next time<br \/>\nPaul and VIVA! come knocking. <\/P><br \/>\n<P>According to Hammond Guthrie, appetizers include a variety of Invertebrate Specialties such<br \/>\nas Alamosa Spring Snails (in a thick agave sauce) and Giant Kangaroo Rat Tails (served on a lush<br \/>\nbed of Palos Verde Blue Butterfly Wings). Ahnold, they also serve a pat\u00e9 of Aleutian Canadian<br \/>\nGoose.<\/P><br \/>\n<P>Mammalian entr\u00e9es include Ocelot Flank Steak (char broiled), Baby Kit Fox (oven roasted),<br \/>\nCarolina Northern Flying Squirrel (wings clipped), and Miscellaneous Entrails with Sea Biscuits.<br \/>\nAmong the fowl entr\u00e9es are Brown Pelican Stew (served in beak), California Condor, Spotted<br \/>\nOwl (with old-growth moss garnish). &#8220;All dishes are&nbsp;served with complimentary Bald Eagle<br \/>\nfeathers.&#8221; Fish entr\u00e9es include Irradiated Coho Salmon and Aged Blue Whale Blubber (in<br \/>\nChampagne broth). <\/P><br \/>\n<P>The restaurant also offers an&nbsp;<A class=inline\nhref=\"http:\/\/www.geocities.com\/ateliermp\/menu2.html\" target='new\"'><B><FONT\ncolor=#003399>\u00e0 la carte Multinational Menu<\/FONT><\/B><\/A>. And Ahnold, don&#8217;t miss the<br \/>\n<A class=inline href=\"http:\/\/www.geocities.com\/ateliermp\/jacksonhole.html\"\ntarget='new\"'><B><FONT color=#003399>Special Events<\/FONT><\/B><\/A>. There might be<br \/>\npolitical mileage in them.<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paul McCartney wants Arnold Schwarzenegger to give geese a chance (second item). Jeannette Walls reports: The former Beatle has written the former action star, asking him to ban foie gras production in California. A bill outlawing the force-feeding of geese to produce the delicacy is on Governor Schwarzenegger&#8217;s desk, and Sir Paul McCartney, a member [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-849","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbvgEs-dH","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/849","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=849"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/849\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}