Holy crap. I've seen this stuff on menus, but I never really paid attention to what it was or how it was obtained.



I'm by no means and animal activist, and I hate PETA, but damn. You basically force feed ducks to get their liver to a certain fat content before their slaughtered.



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foie_gras

[Edited on February 5, 2015 at 10:17 PM. Reason : Can somebody fix my image? Not sure why it didn't link.]

2/5/2015 10:16:47 PM

2/5/2015 10:24:21 PM

Image too big


Anyway,yeah, I only realized what it really was about 2 years ago. You're pretty much a dickbag if you support this product in any way

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2/5/2015 10:24:50 PM

EMCE just force fed this thread with that big ass image

2/5/2015 10:26:45 PM

I only eat foie gras that is from geese that are force fed veal.

2/5/2015 10:28:29 PM

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" if an auger is used, the feeding takes about 45 to 60 seconds"

yeesh

2/5/2015 10:35:05 PM

I only eat caviar from fish abortions

2/5/2015 10:58:24 PM

Hey guys, sorry to tell you but many chickens, pigs and cows are treated brutally for food

2/5/2015 11:42:40 PM

This looks like a good job by the chef, but not really that appetizing imo

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/82/Foie_gras_en_cocotte.jpg

I'm from the south but I'm not even a big chicken liver fan. Let alone some mushy duck liver.

2/5/2015 11:57:03 PM

Every chef in the world says bans of this are literally worse than Hitler. The CA ban was recently overtuned, so I'm tempted to try it, but every fiber of my being says it's beyond evil. LOL OH WELL

2/6/2015 2:17:14 AM

Lol who doesn't know (hasn't known since at least early 2000s) what it is?

Anyway, I only eat foie gras from gluttonous obese geese/ducks with no self-control that over feed on their own.

2/6/2015 2:24:39 AM

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"Lol who doesn't know (hasn't known since at least early 2000s) what it is?"

95% of heterosexual men for starters.

2/6/2015 4:24:18 AM

I heard Players Retreat makes a mean foie gras

2/6/2015 8:25:19 AM

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"BEFORE THEIR SLAUGHTERED"

FTFM

2/6/2015 8:30:50 AM

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"I heard Players Retreat makes a mean foie gras"

i was waiting on this

2/6/2015 8:35:03 AM

I don't eat plants because we kill other plants, grind them up and then use that to grow more plants. Its a unethical to steal seeds and use them to benefit man.

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2/6/2015 10:40:50 AM

This shit is delicious.

2/6/2015 10:48:29 AM

^

2/6/2015 10:50:46 AM

I don't eat this shit, because the production process is so cruel

however, I gather that the process at breeding-houses/slaughterhouses is pretty cruel too...not the actual act of slaughtering, but just the conditions leading up to it

however, I haven't investigated slaughterhouses too much, because I want to be able to eat meat with a clean conscience

2/6/2015 11:11:38 AM

I understand that the meat industry is cruel by nature.

But imo you can eat meat and still be opposed to excessive or unnecessary cruelty.

And this is about as cruel as you can get. It's continual torture.

2/6/2015 11:20:46 AM

The meat industry is a necessary component of the american appetite.

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2/6/2015 11:30:04 AM

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"however, I gather that the process at breeding-houses/slaughterhouses is pretty cruel too...not the actual act of slaughtering, but just the conditions leading up to it"

Serious question: where do you gather this from?

2/6/2015 11:39:45 AM

2/6/2015 11:47:50 AM

poor duckies

also why anyone would eat a fucking liver is beyond me. the concept of it grosses me out.

2/6/2015 11:56:50 AM

Still kinder than ortolan bunting.

2/6/2015 12:05:00 PM

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"Serious question: where do you gather this from? "

There's only like 8 million documentaries on the poor conditions at farms/slaughterhouses.

2/6/2015 12:05:07 PM

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"also why anyone would eat a fucking liver is beyond me. the concept of it grosses me out."

I'm a big fan of those who eat/use the whole animal like the vietnamese. That's why I only eat fast food. They just grind up the whole damn cow and add water

why would anyone ever want to eat testicles, why would anyone ever want to eat octopus, why would anyone ever want to eat brains, why would anyone ever want to listen to nikki minaj, why would anyone ever want to eat chiltlins, why would anyone ever want to eat skin, why would anyone ever


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2/6/2015 12:10:04 PM

They should force feed the ducks liquor until their livers are so saturated with alcohol that they die. Then you could eat foie gras and get a nice buzz too

2/6/2015 12:16:00 PM

Do any animals eat marijuana? I bet those taste good as fuck

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2/6/2015 12:18:06 PM

^^ have you ever been to any farms and slaughterhouses?

I saw a video of some Muslim people setting a guy on fire. I guess all Muslims do that, because I saw it on a video.

The vast majority of all the parts involved in animal agriculture are not cruel, but get bad reputations from the few individuals who do horrible things.

Oh, and just so you know, many times in these "undercover" videos, the person being cruel was hired by an animal rights group such as Peta or HSUS.

2/6/2015 12:21:23 PM

uh oh...here we go grasping at straws again....

some <> all

lots <> most

2/6/2015 1:28:05 PM

The meat industry exists to provide us with a very necessary part of our diet. This is not a hit on the meat industry whatsoever.

There's a difference between the general meat industry standards and practices that provide us with nutrition, and force feeding ducks before they die just for a frickin delicacy. To me there's just no real need for it. It's just unusually and unnecessarily cruel.

2/6/2015 1:35:36 PM

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"The meat industry exists to provide us with a very necessary part of our American diet."

There you go

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2/6/2015 1:49:04 PM

the answer of course is kale

2/6/2015 2:07:43 PM

AFLAC!

Isn't this a french thing mostly?

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2/6/2015 2:09:41 PM

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"I've seen this stuff on menus"

you're in your 30's and have never see foie gras on a menu? god damn dude, you need to go to better restaurants every now and then.

watching rjrumfel post is like watching a young child explore the world, it's amazing to watch them have their minds blown by common things every day

2/6/2015 2:16:07 PM

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"I've seen this stuff on menus"

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"you're in your 30's and have never see foie gras on a menu?"

2/6/2015 2:18:45 PM

totally misread that, but i'm letting the comment stand because who doesn't know what foie gras is and that it is delicious

2/6/2015 2:23:27 PM

So basically both of you are retarded not that theres anything wrong with that

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2/6/2015 3:20:19 PM

we were too poor growing up to have foie gras

we had that paté de campagne though. frickin' delicious

2/6/2015 8:40:50 PM

All dtownral does is try to bring me down a notch up in this place.

I've been seeing it on menus for a long time, just never cared to investigate. When I go to places that have foie gras on the menu, I've typically decided before I get there what I'm going to get. Take Second Empire for example. We eat there from time to time, and there's usually something on the menu, usually the upstairs menu, not the tavern, that has foie gras. But since the menu changes regularly, I've usually checked it out online before I get there and have decided what I want.

Besides, I'm pretty picky.

Sorry dtownral, but I grew up in a pretty redneck town, and as a youth my parents never had the money to take me to four and five star restaurants. I'm glad your such a well traveled and worldly individual. You can continue dazzling us with your amazing experiences.

2/6/2015 9:06:47 PM

dtownral is a good person. he donates foie gras to the homeless in Moore Square.

2/6/2015 9:11:53 PM

I mean, does it make me an ignorant person because I don't have $120 to lay down on fancy dinners? And because I really wasn't curious about how this product was produced until I saw an article about it in the news?

Shit, we cook at home 99% of the time these days. It happens when you grow up and have a family. We still go out to nice restaurants on special occasions, but I still wouldn't give foie gras a second look. I don't even like liver.

2/6/2015 9:43:16 PM

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"The meat industry exists to provide us with a very necessary part of our diet. "

False. At least at the current size.

2/6/2015 9:47:46 PM

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"I don't have $120 to lay down on fancy dinners"

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"Second Empire for example. We eat there from time to time"

2/10/2015 2:17:48 PM

Anniversaries? Valentine's day?

dtownral made it sound like every meal out for him was a 4 star meal.

2/10/2015 3:00:16 PM

^way to Brian Williams your way out of that one.

2/10/2015 4:15:34 PM

Hey, it isn't like I had dinner at The Last Supper. That would be some Brian Williams shit.

2/10/2015 7:25:54 PM

Foie Gras without gavage:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gvrgD0mAFoU

I generally will not eat most factory farmed meat, but foie gras tastes like meat butter--how could you not love meat butter?

Oh yeah, it's legal again...

2/10/2015 7:28:56 PM

^ That video is amazing... going to visit that farm is on my bucket list now!

^ I hear shark fin soup tastes like delicious jello--how could one not love delicious jello?

2/11/2015 5:30:26 AM