Using the derogatory term “force feeding” is either ignorant or dishonnest.
When I was a kid, I fed the ducks quite often at Grandpa’s farm. The ducks are not stressed at all when we do it, on the contrary, they crowed around us waiting to be “force fed”, they love it.
It’s because they are physiologically like that, when cold weathers come, they want to store calories in their liver as much as possible to survive or to migrate. Do the same thing to a chicken and it dies.
Foie gras production involves sticking a tube down the goose’s throat and overfilling their stomach with a fatty concoction they would not ordinarily eat. Until their liver becomes enlarged and filled with fat.
This is not the same as sticking unlimited delicious food in a healthy animal’s face and letting them go at it.
Foie gras is purposely making an animal ill by pumping it’s stomach with poison several times per day. Then waiting until one of its organs is diseased enough to harvest.
I’m not opposed to eating animals but dont think they should be forced into illness and suffer every single day like these geese do. And I’m sure eating any organs from a sick animal is no good for you too...
That’s not how foie gras ducks and geese are fed. They get a tube stuck down their throat and food is poured in until no more will fit. They are truly force-fed, no quotes at all.