french-cuisine

"In Strasbourg, known as the capital of foie gras, over half a million geese undergo this treatment every year. Since their liver requires strong super-nutrition in order to get sick and therefore gorge themselves until they reach the weight desired by the breeders, the specialized staff manages to stuff them every day, albeit with some insistence, with such a quantity of food that the greediest goose of the world if left to itself it would be able to get rid of it in a week. Until a few years ago, to prevent these birds from wasting calories with excessive movement, it was customary to nail their paws to a wooden board. But today, thanks to these very small cages and above all thanks to the funnel, the same quantity of foie gras can be obtained with this more humane and civilized system. (Dog World)"

"The Mechanical Gobbler (controlled by computer...) is now in use on farms, which stuffs geese and ducks [...] through a tube permanently planted in the victim's esophagus: cooked and salted corn enters it three times a day day for three weeks, a total of fifteen kilograms of corn, with the additional martyrdom of fourteen hours of light bombardment every day, in very crowded enclosures. [...] The only punishment for those who in turn gorge themselves on that liver, the chemical residues of the treatment... A natural system instead is to leave the newborns without food when they emerge from the immense broods artificial: with that memory in its body the adult animal will have an insatiable hunger and will enthusiastically collaborate in the foie gras industry. (Guido Ceronetti)"

"Of all the forms of intensive farming practiced today, the good quality veal industry is the most repugnant from a moral point of view, comparable only to such barbarisms as the force-feeding of geese, by means of a funnel, to produce the deformed livers which then constitute the pâté de foi gras. (Peter Singer, Animal Rights, Human Obligations)"

"I also brought the pâté de foie gras. [...] It's a kind of... soap that you eat with bread. It disgusts you the first time, but then you get used to it. And also... toothpaste for you too, beautiful mother. It has the same taste as pâté de foie gras, but costs a little less. (Biraghin)"

"Foie gras, a very expensive delicacy, consists of the animal's unnaturally enlarged and traumatized liver. It has often been called the cruelest food in the world [...]. When the liver of the duck or goose is swollen to ten times its natural size, the animal is killed to remove and market its diseased organ. (Will Tuttle)"

"Disturbed mind creates foie gras, and then blames the funnel. (Dargen D'Amico)"

"Taken from a goose made docile and gorged without mercy, the consumption of a diseased organ due to this treatment is a horrifying thing. Just the process of making goose liver makes you feel nauseous. Common in France, it was performed mainly by peasant women. He would take a young goose into his lap and shove white bread and other feed down its throat. At a certain point the goose had enough and began to choke. Then the peasant woman threw what she had vomited back into her mouth along with other food, and she continued to do so until the poor goose lost her gag reflex and allowed herself to be stuffed without resistance. [...] And for those for whom this description is still not enough to give up such food, just imagine the same process in a modern version, where the goose is stuffed by a machine. (Ruediger Dahlke)"

"You eat your foie gras together with the nails of Jesus Christ. (Guido Ceronetti)"