Hudson Valley Foie Gras Website Hacked, Buyers Names Made Public

[garbon]

http://blog.zagat.com/2013/04/hudson-valley-foie-gras-website-hacked.html

If you thought publishing the names and phone numbers of restaurant no-shows was bad, animal-rights activists have now hacked the website of Hudson Valley Foie Gras, a leading U.S. supplier, and published customers' names and email addresses. The list is mostly California-based clients, due to the statewide foie gras ban, and includes chefs, home cooks and more. According to the OC Register, one Laguna Beach chef, Amar Santana of Broadway by Amar Santana, has been getting harassing calls since the info went public. "We are talking about ducks," Santana told the Reg. "They are raised to be eaten. It is illegal to sell it or whatever, but you are telling me it is OK to blast personal information like that online? That is more illegal than anything else."

North American Animal Liberation is one of two groups that published the list from an "anonymous" tipster who said they "took down" Hudson Valley's website and online store and uncovered the names and personal info of more than 1,200 customers who purchased products between June 2012 and April 2013. So they made it all public - just because. Ken Frank of Napa Valley's Le Toque weighed in: "The activists are a shame on our great nation where we should respect each other's right to choose what we eat, who we marry, what we read and what we say, without fear of intimidation or reprisal." The chef, who is against the California ban, was not named on the list.

Apart from the possibility of being harassed by these nuts (/having private contact info sent out) - not really sure why these "activists" thought this would be productive. In the general public, there isn't really a culture of shaming Foie Gras eaters is there?  So not exactly the same as outing a list of a madam's clients.

[Martinus]

Animal rights activists are scum. Film at 11.

[Grey Fox]

Foie gras

[Viking]

I tried it once and didn't like it. That was before I found out it was made by torturing geese.

[HVC]

Geese are evil so I'm ok with to torturing them

[Valmy]

A list of those who embrace a wonderful culture

But yeah I have never gotten shit for enjoying Foie Gras.  Hardly anybody knows what it is anyway.

[KRonn]

Yuk, who even eats faux grass anyway?? 

[Sheilbh]

Animal rights activists are scum. Film at 11.

Quite. For shame!

[Ideologue]

Oh, yeah, I meant to say "right on," because I respect no rights of those who disagree with me and secretly wish them to be brought into line by the harshest methods, because deep down I'm a totalitarian who just keeps looking for love in all the wrong places.

Also, fuck Martinus, and Shaun, and Gay Fox, and Porkchop Pete, and Valmy.  Jesus hates you.

[Martinus]

I tried it once and didn't like it. That was before I found out it was made by torturing geese.

Maybe you didn't eat the right one (I was treated to normal goose liver once or twice while the menu said it's foie gras). True foie gras is so dense, it has the consistency of cold butter. It's delicious.

[Viking]

I tried it once and didn't like it. That was before I found out it was made by torturing geese.

Maybe you didn't eat the right one (I was treated to normal goose liver once or twice while the menu said it's foie gras). True foie gras is so dense, it has the consistency of cold butter. It's delicious.

Don't think so. I did have 18 english upper class toffs with me who all vouchsafed it as "good quality" and "best in toulouse".

[MadImmortalMan]

Got a few restaurant ideas from the list. Thanks.

[Scipio]

I love foie gras.  That is some fine shit, no doubt.

[HVC]

Oh, yeah, I meant to say "right on," because I respect no rights of those who disagree with me and secretly wish them to be brought into line by the harshest methods, because deep down I'm a totalitarian who just keeps looking for love in all the wrong places.

Also, fuck Martinus, and Shaun, and Gay Fox, and Porkchop Pete, and Valmy.  Jesus hates you.

i'm special!

[mongers]