Would you refuse to eat proper French foie gras out of moral principle?
By proper French I mean through gavage (i.e. force feeding).
Personally, and particularly at a good restaurant, I would happily eat it every time.
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ETA: nevermind. I don’t feel like being berated today.
Good luck, OP.
I don’t eat the stuff because I don’t like how it tastes or the texture of it.
In the Netherlands, if you would like some, you will have big difficulty finding it, since most restaurants and grocerie stores have banned it.
If you know how those animals are fed to get big livers, why would you still want to eat it?
Their livers grow any way, also if they are fed normally, so what is the big difference?
Is it really tastier when you know the goose suffered?
I don’t know.
And i don’t like the taste of liver anyway.
I don’t eat it because I find it disgusting. If I did like it, yes, I would not eat it because the whole thing is morally repugnant.
@rebbel Yes, it really is that tasty when you get the real deal.
That’s the first time I hear about it – as a vegan, I find it unethical and would not partake in this animal abuse just because it’s tradition.
Yes, I would refuse. I would not eat it. There are a lot of other tasty foods that don’t require a goose to be tortured. I also don’t eat veal. But I have no problem consuming a nice medium rare grass fed black angus steak.
Yes. I am not a vegetarian, but there are some practices that are just absurd and cruel. Force-feeding is disgusting and I would never ever eat foie gras. Same goes for preventing calves from moving, which is why I would never eat veal.
I stopped eating food that was especially cruelly treated some years ago, i.e., veal, lobster and foie gras. However, I am sometimes in situations like dining in someone’s home in France where it is served and in cases like that, I will be gracious and eat it. (I also make an exception for lobster in Maine just because it’s so damn good!)
@DominicX American veal is supposed to be the best as they slaughter them there earlier than they do anywhere else (i.e. within a few days of birth). And they still use crates, so the animal has less room to move around and hence the meat is more tender as less muscles are used during the short life of the calf.
I would refuse to eat fake Foie Gras out of moral principle.
veal… how would you feel about aliens abducting your newborn babies and eating them?
I’d feel different from cows as they do not have any feelings on the matter at all.
Fuck NO!
I have geese for pets, they are wonderful animals, I boycott all down products, fois gras/pate.
They are treated much like veal calves and it is a horrendious cruelty based industry.
Absolutely, positively, NO.
I don’t eat meat. Foie Gras is no exception. Even when I did eat meat, there were some meats I just couldn’t eat. I have no desire to contribute to the torture of animals.
I’m headed to France in 2 weeks, and I really hope I don’t run into this situation.
Never! I have trouble with chicken and eggs. I’ve never had veal, don’t eat babies. And I’ve never been able to cook Peter cottontail either.
Yes.
And I don’t eat eggs from imprisoned chicken either. But I can afford to pay extra for their freedom.
I would most certainly refuse to eat foie gras. It is so inhumane to force feed ANY animal.
I had a big white Embden goose for 11 years untill I had to put her down last summer to a crippling leg condition.
The Embden are usually the breed of choice for fois gras. They are big birds and very heavy. Ultimately while she could have lived much longer ( geese can average 15–20 yrs. ) her genetics caused her legs to give out on her heavy ( 26 lb. ) body.
I liked to think that Babby goose was the poster goose for her fellow fois gras friends, everyone loved her. She was the seetest girl ever, liked to nap on blankets in the sunshine with me, loved to play with my jewelry.
I spent a ton of money on her condition, and traveled with her to an exotic vet weekly for months.
The last months of her life I carried her to her swimming pool, moved her around all day from sun to shade to swimming. Carried her into the barn at night and held her in my arms when she was euthanized.
I was honored to give her a happy goose life and her remaining friends get the best as well. She was a delight to have, R.I.P. Babby! :-(
@Coloma that bird of yours sounds mighty tasty.
@beautifulbobby193
Don’t forget the Xmas goose, and plum sauce and pate wisecracks.
D- for unoriginality!
No, but that’s mainly because I can’t stand liver of any kind. It grosses me out to think about eating organs. Especially an organ that filters impurities out of blood.
Ah, I see where you’re going with that question. Of course I do, I make some damned great sausage. I don’t eat anything it if I can’t tell what’s in it.
I think that I’d like to try it once, but that’s ‘cause I have a thing for disgusting foods. After that I don’t think i’ll want it again, but certainly not for moral reasons.
@ragingloli – Did you read my answer at all? Of course, I know what goes into most commercially made sausage. That’s why I make my own sausage, at home, so I know exactly what goes into them.
As a vegetarian I would never consider consuming fois gras.
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