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Foi Gras (Duck Liver) Is Produced Via Cruelty To Animals
Foi Gras (duck liver) is a delicacy, especially in France, but to get larger livers they force feed (shove) food into the geese producing a fat and sickly animal until it meets it's demise for harvesting the liver. Check out http://www.nofoiegras.org/
 Grenache  16 Mar 2009 15:20
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It is extremely cruel, however, so is the way they keep most animals meant for human consumption. Lamb and veal is so tender because they do not let the lamb or calf move around. They are kept in small pens for their short lives.

I eat meat, but do wish there was an answer to factory farming. Foi Gras is definitely more cruel than some practices, but the truth is we do not treat any of the animals that we eat in a particularly humane fashion, with the exception of free range meat, which is much more difficult to come by and more expensive.
 
 my2cents2u  16 Mar 2009 17:29
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Yes, it's a nasty practice.
 
 Evileye  16 Mar 2009 16:16
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And it isn't even tasty, assuming it tastes anything like other poultry livers I have tried.
 
 Quincel  16 Mar 2009 15:38
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I thought it was goose liver, produced by over feeding them grain through a funnel Several times a daily. THE END PRODUCT is really good.
 
 keepmindok  16 Mar 2009 22:17
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 Yeah, you know the goose vs duck thing throws me too, I always thought it was goose but the website I referenced for lookup says it's duck (?) Could it be a term flexible enough to include both?
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 17 Mar 2009 20:06
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