I’m another who has no desire to try it – I’ll eat meat, if the animal is slaughtered humanely. Key word being “humane”.
Question – is there a way to make it by NOT force-feeding a goose?
Guess I’m with Amansett and SanVito. No foie gras, no veal here. I very seldom eat chicken.
The bigger problem I have with it is the simple fact that a fatty liver is a disease symptom. I don’t think parts of diseased animals should be food.
I don’t think there is. Their livers have to be engorged many times their normal size with fat in order for it to be what it is…a luxurious, buttery meat pillow to rest your tongue upon.
So its a good disease! Cool!
ETA: and actually I don’t think its considered a disease when its artificially induced and the ducks/geese are slaughtered well before their normal lifespan would be up. And they are just birds. It would certainly be a disease in a human, but we aren’t opening the Chianti and sauteeing up the fava beans (yet).
No clue, but my geese will stand by a broken open bag of chow and eat constantly if you don’t notice the bag has a hole in it … until it is empty. I suppose I could try free feeding 50 pound bags of chow to see if I can get one to die of chirhosis. I am sure the goose would be happy to get all the foot it can chow down on.
Cirrhosis and fatty force-fed liver “disease” aren’t the same, are they? I though cirrhosis involved scarring of the liver tissue due to alcohol abuse…which would be a uniquely human condition.
I’m sorry, I didn’t mean to cause any confusion - I was just trying to point out that I know the difference between a ‘paté de foie gras’ made from the enlarged liver of a goose and ‘liver paté’ which is made from the livers of ordinary chickens, ducks or geese. I make and eat the latter from the livers of free-range chickens - it is not as creamy as the ‘paté de foie gras’, but I enjoy it none the less.
As to the animal suffering, while no geese have ever complained directly to me, I have known people to have an enlarged liver through disease and/or overuse. I’m convinced the birds find it just as painful, which is why I don’t contribute to the practice. I respect the choices of those who do eat foie gras, I’m just explaining my reason for sticking to my version where the texture is coarser.
Ah…gotcha. I was wondering about that. I figured the Canadian language barrier got in the way yet again.
Thanks a lot Celine Dion!
Not if you raise your pets humanely.
If you own a fat tomcat with his balls snipped off, and the only exercize he gets is moving from the sofa to his litter, to his feed bowl and back; trust me: that cat needs a fucking drink. 
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No clue, but my geese will stand by a broken open bag of chow and eat constantly if you don’t notice the bag has a hole in it … until it is empty. I suppose I could try free feeding 50 pound bags of chow to see if I can get one to die of chirhosis. I am sure the goose would be happy to get all the foot it can chow down on.
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Don’t know nothing about geese, but I’m confident my dog will eat itself into a coma, no questions asked.
Doesn’t matter if she’s hungry or has just been fed, if you [del]put it in front of her[/del] leave it anywhere whatsoever that is within her reach, she will wolf it down like she’s just down from Mount Sinai and God has been stingy with the mana. The only way she will stop is when she cannot physically fill herself more because her belly is already resting on the ground.
This is not a figure of speech: it has happened. A full kilo of calissons d’Aix, gone in 15 minutes. She was out of commission for three days.
One of our roomies when we were down in Portsmouth VA had a siamese cat that got into the dog kibble, the stuff that is about the size of a small gumball. You could pretty much feel the kibble in the tummy. He ate until he couldn’t cram any more in … we found him snoozing in the bag of kibbles. He made a noticable dent in the amount of kibbles.
WOW, way to drag up a wholly unrelated thread just because you don’t like my answer. And please point out where in that thread I said I ‘support the Cuban revolution’??? You a Fois Gras farmer or something?