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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.
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.
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 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 ...
The men, after all, have been in the same lane since before they were born. Patou, the grandnephew of couturier Jean Patou, is a lifelong resident of Neuilly-sur-Seine, Paris’s wealthiest suburb.
Baur played a role in a California law that went into effect in 2012, banning the production and sale of foie gras, which is made by force feeding ducks and geese and causing their livers to expand up to ten times their normal size. [17] He was also involved in passing a 2006 (repealed in 2008) Chicago ordinance banning the sale of foie gras. [18]
In 2006, Hot Doug's garnered media attention when it continued to serve various foie gras-based sausages and condiments following the banning of foie gras by the city of Chicago. The ban had been proposed by Alderman Joe Moore, inspired by Chicago chef Charlie Trotter's announcement that he had stopped serving foie gras on animal-cruelty ...