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Gavage feeding Anti-foie gras protestors at the Hôtel Meurice, Paris. The production of foie gras (the liver of a duck or a goose that has been specially fattened) involves the controversial force-feeding of birds with more food than they would eat in the wild, and more than they would voluntarily eat domestically.
Foie gras is made by force-feeding ducks and geese to enlarge their livers to 10 times their size — a practice that some consider cruel.
In California, for example, the force-feeding of birds, which is how foie gras is made, is entirely illegal. Chicago, on the other hand, has entirely banned the sale of foie gras products.
Foie gras (French for 'fat liver'); (French: [fwa ɡʁɑ] ⓘ, English: / ˌ f w ɑː ˈ ɡ r ɑː / ⓘ) is a specialty food product made of the liver of a duck or goose. According to French law, [1] foie gras is defined as the liver of a duck or goose fattened by gavage (force feeding). Foie gras is a popular and well-known delicacy in French ...
The California foie gras law or Senate Bill 1520 (S.B. 1520) [1] is a California State statute that prohibits the "force feed[ing of] a bird for the purpose of enlarging the bird's liver beyond normal size" (California Health and Safety Code § 25981) as well as the sale of products that are a result of this process (§ 25982). [2]
The New York City Council passed legislation to ban foie gras sales in the city beginning in 2022. ... The law was passed because of animal cruelty concerns over the treatment of geese and ducks ...
Here a Mulard duck is being force fed corn in order to fatten its liver for foie gras production. Force-feeding is also known as gavage, from the verbal noun form of the French verb gaver meaning "to gorge". This term specifically refers to force-feeding of ducks or geese in order to fatten their livers in the production of foie gras.
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