The Physiology of Foie: Why Foie Gras is Not Unethical
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Video or photographic footage of one badly managed farm, or even a thousand badly managed farms, does not prove that the production of foie gras, as a practice, is necessarily harmful to the health or mental well-being of a duck. Foie gras production should be judged not by the worst farms, but by the best.

I haven't always been comfortable with foie gras, though I've spent a good chunk of my life working with it...Later on, as my culinary career expanded, I learned to love it.

finally comfortable with my industrialized fascistic extraction of flesh :amber-snacking:

"Foie gras production should be judged not by the worst farms, but by the best"

lol sounds like a Joe Biden spokesman, fuck off PMC dork

  • SolidaritySplodarity [they/them]
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    3 years ago

    Force-feeding means they use a weird speculum-like thing to feed them extra food.

    In the scheme of animal ag, that is pretty tame. Most animals are kept in tight quarters, are prone to disease, will be killed when they get a disease that would "cost too much", live in their own faeces... and are then killed so that someone can experience a very specific kind of pleasure when eating them.

    Anima welfare discourse like this is sometimes well-meaning but tends to ignore the elephant in the room: what happens to the other animals you eat?