Keep celebrity chefs and food marketeers off menu

CELEBRITY chef Richard Corrigan sells high-priced, good-looking food which is far from the reality of most people’s lives. More power to him.

However, his recent call for Bord Bia to be done away with is as credible as those porn stars who run for elected office just for the media profile.

A quick look at the menu at Richard Corrigan’s fancy Mayfair restaurant in London shows foie gras on the menu. This is fattened duck liver derived from cruelly force-feeding ducks by inserting long mechanical tubes into their stomachs. This practice is banned in, among other countries, Ireland, Britain and , Denmark. The product itself is now banned in Israel and will be banned in California from 2012.