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The report of the European Union's Scientific Committee on Animal Health and Animal Welfare, Welfare Aspects of the Production of Foie Gras in Ducks and Geese, [22] adopted on December 16, 1998, is an 89-page review of studies from several producing countries. It examines several indicators of animal welfare, including physiological indicators ...
A mulard duck, the hybrid used most frequently for foie gras production. Foie gras (French for 'fat liver'); (French: [fwa ɡʁɑ] ⓘ, English: / ˌ f w ɑː ˈ ɡ r ɑː / ⓘ) is a specialty food product made of the liver of a duck or goose. According to French law, [1] foie gras is defined as the liver of a duck or goose fattened by gavage ...
Foie gras is made by force-feeding ducks and geese to enlarge their livers to 10 times their size — a practice that some consider cruel.
[126] [127] An HSUS-led coalition also pressed for the passage of a California foie gras ban that took effect in mid-2012. [128] In 2016, HSUS led the campaign to enact the Massachusetts Conditions for Farm Animals Initiative, which banned the use of small cages to raise animals in agriculture; it received 77.7% of public support . [129]
Farm Sanctuary achieved a legislative victory in California when, in September 2004, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger signed into law Senate Bill 1520, sponsored in part by Farm Sanctuary, which bans the force-feeding of ducks and geese in the production of foie gras and the sale of the product when made from force-fed birds. Both provisions took ...
Eduardo Sousa Holm is a Spanish farmer who makes goose foie gras without gavage (force feeding), at his farm in Extremadura. [1] [2] [3] Chef Dan Barber described his experience of Sousa's farm in his book, The Third Plate, and at a TED presentation in 2008. [4] on the radio show This American Life in 2011. [5]
Countries and regions that ban foie gras production Main foie gras-producing countries and regions [6] [7] [8] World laws on stunning animals during ritual slaughter;
France is a major producer of the highly controversial delicacy foie gras, which involves enlarging the livers of geese and ducks by force-feeding them for several weeks. Several European countries, including Britain, Norway, Sweden, Germany, and Switzerland, and well as the American state of California have banned foie gras production.