Foie gras is not actually a French monopoly. Ancient Egyptians long ago discovered that wild geese eat a lot of food before migration, storing energy in their livers for the long flight. And wild geese caught during this time are also the most flavorful. First of all, not long after the hungry is born, it doesn't live the life of a normal goose for more than a few hours. For the first 12 weeks, it is immobilized on a rack designed to train the neck muscles. Farmers overfeed them daily to burst their stomachs into a sack of dough. The geese that naturally suffer from fatty livers are after all a minority, which led to the advent of the artificial liver method. It is known that this is the use of a method called fill-feeding, as the name suggests, is a hose inserted into the esophagus of geese or ducks (Peking duck with ducks is a different way), forced to fill the feed
In fact, when it comes to cruelty, not foie gras a kind of, but wherever you eat, we use the means of a very cruel. Let's start with plants, they feel pain too, they just don't run and can't talk. When people cut down a cabbage, rooted up radish, first cut down taro seedlings, and then dug out taro cruel in order to sell foie gras, in the raising of nearly cruel feeding methods. Understanding people know that more talk is not helpful. Europeans eat foie gras has hundreds of years of history, even the world-famous short story writer (Maupassant), in the masterpiece (sheep's wool), are dedicated to eating foie gras description.
Three times a day, in the morning, midday and evening, the farmer will put a 20 to 30 centimeter iron pipe, poked straight into the depths of the goose's throat. 12 kilograms of corn and other feed mixture, from the pipe filled with adult geese into the stomach. It's too late to digest it, and it's on to the next meal. Good foie gras requires a lot of feeding on the goose, the goose is very painful during the raising of foie gras, only the accumulation of fat to a certain standard will be opened to take the whole foie gras, so it is still relatively cruel.
If you want to say cruelty that eat goose all parts of the body are cruel, unless not eat meat is not cruel, because belong to the meat are animal life. Just in daily life, many people do not like to eat goose liver pendulum, but it is not that he felt cruel to dare not eat, but he was born not love to eat.