Foie gras is made from the grotesquely enlarged livers of ducks and geese who have been cruelly force-fed. -peta.org
Foie gras is banned in various countries due to ethical concerns.
France produce 20,000 tonnes on average.
https://youtu.be/idfE2iCNHjA How it’s done in France and elsewhere where it’s not banned
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There are alternatives where they’re not force-fed though. But since you quote peta that probably would not be an actually better alternative.
I don’t think you’re here for a discussion but rather to stir shit up.
We used to do it with livers from English drunkards, but it has been deemed unethical for a few centuries….
> who have been cruelly force
Not necessarily, you don’t understand the process involved in foie gras… The issue is only with industrial farms, which are unethical independently of the foie gras.
Foie gras is much more ethical than your McDonald’s nuggets.
If you taste some foie gras, you will see that ethic isn’t that important after all.
Various countries, you mean some countries, a minority AFAIK. I’m not sure how that weights in any way?
Foie gras process is vastly misunderstood, a lot of eco-ignorant jumps on the image of forcefeeding without trying to understand the geese. Mass production is bad, but that’s true for every animal involved industry and that’s where you guys are usually caught as complete hypocrites.
Every time someone asks this it makes me want to buy foie gras.
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Honestly I’m not looking to troll & shame, if someone has a link explaining that foie gras isn’t as unethical as the video’s I’ve seen imply, then, I’d be open to hear you out read your links & discuss.
It is unethical as fuck yeah, but not *that* much more unethical than regular supermarket meat.
It’s actually a normal process initially. Ducks and goose stack up a lot of foods before going for long migrations.
This is how it was discovered in ancient Rome, a hunter caught a migrating goose and his liver was like a foie gras.
Simply put: we don’t give a fuck.
Ducks livers are made to growth when they eat a lot like we do with our belly. It is not a disease like our livers going fat. And after a short period without food it goes normally because it is an energetic stock for the animal. The wrong thing about foie gras is the mass industry like any other food, where the animals are not respected.
Watch this video there is English subtitles :
https://youtu.be/joaJVn_F5no
So like any other animal food, buy quality over quantity.
Now I want foie gras. Thank you very much…
Did you try to learn how traditional foie gras is made ? Do you know Romans used to do it like 1500 years ago already ? Are youtube & peta your only source of (biased) information ? Your country was born yesterday, “mate”. Your whole food tradition is prison food. Keep your dubious lessons in morality for yourself, thank you.