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In Butcher City the killer's victims are force-fed in a similar way Suffragettes were before they're killed |
Years ago I lived on an island. Not one of those remote Islands but one of the most accessible ones you are likely to get. One day I was walking past a local restaurant and I was shocked to see something on the menu that's so cruel the production of it is banned in my country but not the sale.
You can read about what happened next on my companion blog for my book Living Cruelty Free: Live a more Compassionate Life here
That product was Foie gras which is made by ramming a metal or plastic pipe down a duck or goose's throat so their livers swell abnormally to around ten times their normal size.
Foie gras is French and translates as fatty liver.
There's never been an appetite for reversing the ban on producing it in the UK where I live because even farmers who could make money out of producing this vile 'foodstuff' find the cruelty involved too much.
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In Butcher City, DI Waddell investigates a sinister killer who's killing people and removing their livers |
When I was writing book 2 in the Detective in a Coma series (the follow up to Vile City) I wanted to do something a bit different. Come up with a different method of murder whilst also letting people who don't know into the sick little secret of how cruel a 'food' Foie gras is.
In Butcher City, my killer craves Foie gras but is so sickened by how it's obtained he decides that he'll make a human version instead. Pretty gross but as well as coming up with a more novel way to kill people, it also gives folk an insight into one of the cruellest things humans eat.
A food so cruel that when Scottish tennis star Andy Murray discovered what it was he banned it from being served in the hotel he owns.
If you want to see how it's used in Butcher City you can check out the book now.
A killer is stalking his victims on Glasgow's streets.
Men are being abducted, kept tied up for weeks and force-fed, then strangled and their livers are being removed.
Men are being abducted, kept tied up for weeks and force-fed, then strangled and their livers are being removed.
~from Jennifer Lee Thomson @jenthom72 and Diamond Crime~
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