Comments on: #60 – Foie Gras

By: Tom Osborne

Tom Osborne — Fri, 31 Dec 2010 23:17:49 +0000

M.G.–Thank you for that link to those pictures. That whole thing is so horribly frightening and sad, and to think that all this for-sure suffering is to make what is essentially a luxury item (I understand that unspeakable cruelty is involved in harvesting caviar, too, although people are apt to view sturgeons as even “less sentient” than geese); in other words, not anything that anybody needs. I am sure that conditions are the same, if not worse, for “more normal” food that we eat every day, such as chicken, ham, milk, and so on. I know that vegetarians would consider any meat a luxury, but I think that any debate on that subject is off-topic in this particular forum. However, I do really wonder what long-term negative effects (if any) there may be for a species that treats other species like this. I just don’t see how this can bode well, yet I also wonder if eating non-factory-farm-produced food, including non-GMO crops, will ultimately be an item on this “Stuff Rich People Love” site, too.

By: M.G.

M.G. — Thu, 30 Dec 2010 09:33:03 +0000

Please educate yourself before you make claims about the conditions in which those geese/ducks live in. Although I don’t deny the status of foie gras as a delicacy, I think the inhumane methods by which it is procured makes the meal not worth it. I guess it is all a matter of personal opinion.

http://www.nofoiegras.org/media/media_img/index.html

By: Raul Duke

Raul Duke — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 05:11:02 +0000

Foie gras is wonderful. Unfortunatly there are many misconceptions about it. First off the geese (and ducks, as ducks are also used to make it sometimes) are not nailed down. They are allowed to roam around the farm in much, much better conditions than in an American factory farm. Second while they are fed with a tube, they are only fed twice a day and the tube is placed in thier mouths then removed, they are not hooked up to it 24/7. The amount of food they are fed is much less compared to body weight than say a double whopper meal at BK. The ducks and geese I saw in France were very well cared for and actually came to the farmer when it was feeding time. He gently held them with one hand and fed them with the other. These animals are probably better treated than 95% of farm animals in the world (probably due to the high value product being made from them). While I can see some veg-heads having a problem eating meat in general foie gras is far less cruel than must forms of eating meat. Which is why I will continue to serve and eat foie in all it’s wonderful glory.

By: Greg Newman

Greg Newman — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 12:55:47 +0000

it has to be my favourite food of all time – i never liked geese and as far as i know, they never liked me!

By: Tom Osborne

Tom Osborne — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 09:50:12 +0000

Don’t forget that the geese’s feet are nailed to the bottom of the cage throughout all of this.