Foie Gras, what about?!
Answers: Do you like? what do you think about?
Providing it is prepared properly, it is great. Every man, woman, and small child should try it.
Ethically, since the ducks & geese voluntarily approach the feed tubes, the 'activists' have no ground IMHO.
People should support restaurants that support the foie gras farmers!!!! Don't let other people tell what you can't eat.
It's wonderful. One of the great specialty/luxury foods.
It's cruel.
A French delicacy.
It is a combination of duck or goose liver, with fresh herbs, heavy cream, Liquors and truffles. Great with Sauturnes wine. Chateau d'yquem. A Sweet dessert wine. It is $150.00 - $400.00 a pound.
Serve over fresh baked French bread or table water crackers.
Certainly an aquired taste.
We sell it in our store.
It is very rich and deep in flavor. A little goes a long way.
The geese raised to produce foie gras are sonfined to reduce movement, force fed a diet that results in an abnormal ratio of liver to overall body weight. If the geese were human, they would have cirrhosis of the liver. Knowing that, would you still eat foie gras? Many of the top chefs now vow not to serve it. And some places have made them illegal.
The forcefeeding of birds to enlarge their livers is a practise that dates back to Egyptian times.
Forcefeeding is just that....
it's not like Homer Simpson where you'd just supply the buffet and let the bird do the eating.
In my opinion it's cruel, unjustifiable and it puts the human race to shame.
personally i think it's disgusting . how in the world did someone come up w/ that , how did the idea just pop into someones head ? people really do some gross sh*t . there are to many things out there for me to eat + experiment w/ but that + milk fed veal are off my menu for good . the slaughterhouses are bad enough really but that kind of torture is unconscionable , not to mention sick