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
I remember watching a documentary on foie gras and the one farm that would want cameras on their premises where foie gras can be produced (in France of course :france-cool:) the farmer tried to say that the ducks actually love getting force fed through a tube. What followed after they said that was a harrowing shot of ducks trying to run as far away from the farmer with the feed tube as possible, but they were penned in of course.
So there you have it, the best farm for foie gras. Knowing that is as good as it gets alledgedly for producing it, that only made me more against it.
I read somewhere that you could just make the geese or ducks happy and give them good food and you don't have to literally shove food down their throats,
and a bunch of :macron: :france-cool: fucks were crying that it's not real foie gras even though it was literally the same or better
But 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.
Bro, you're literally eating their fattened livers. Wtf are you talking about "not necessarily harmful to the ducks"?
Urgh :big-honk: Lopez-Alt's cookbook The Food Lab is well worth torrenting btw
honest question, if the objection is force-feeding why dont they just make gras from more ducks with smaller livers?
yeah its like they trick the duck bodies into getting ready for a migration & exaggerate the amount of fat stores the duck would usually get
how the fuck did anyone even figure out they could do that
They probably caught a few that were migrating and went "hey this is unusual"
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?
