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The Village Voice's Sarah DiGregorio has made no secret of her fondness for foie gras, so we approached her exposé on America's largest foie gras farm with a bit of skepticism. But the expansive cover story about her visit to Hudson Valley Foie Gras, one of just four in the U.S., brings some clarity to the impassioned debate. According to her observations, the short lives of ducks at Hudson Valley are seemingly torture-free, all things considered. Of course, it's possible she was "witnessing an elaborate cover-up," as one New York Humane Society rep predicted, but DiGregorio insists the owners allowed her untrammeled access to the farm, where 4,000 to 6,000 ducks are "processed" a week, and—unlike in Europe—live their 15-week lives in a cage-free environment. While there, she witnessed the entire process, noting only one dead duck, zero duck vomit, and concluded, "The fact that some industrial farms elsewhere are making foie gras in inhumane ways doesn't mean that all foie gras production is inhumane. You can buy humanely raised chicken, or you can buy chicken that's had a nasty, brutal life. The same goes for foie gras."
Upstate Foie Gras Farm Not So Cruel, Village Voice Reports
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not exactly NY news, but it's one more reason to hate hamas terrorists and the fascists in their mid
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peta should take a field trip to China.
It's not exactly humane if you murder the duck in the end...
Murder(?) a duck? You can kill a duck, you can murder a person, but you cannot murder a duck.
Get serious, if you want to be taken seriously.
ok, "kill" then. not sure if that's much better, but ok.
Moron. What do you call it when you tear a salad out of the ground?
If the plants had a problem with him tearing them up out of their homes and eating them, I'm sure they would have voiced their concerns by now.
there was a TED podcast about a very nice foie gras farm in Spain, and about the story of foie gras...
I'll have to look for this Hudson Valley foie gras... mmmmm...
I've never had foie gras, but I'm very curious. Can someone attempt to describe the taste/compare it to another food?
Barry: it's basically very fatty (and thus smooth) bird liver. If you've ever had chicken liver, that's the general taste, but it's much milder, and instead of the grainy texture of chicken livers, it's more like butter or a very tight mousse.
It's actually very sweet in flavor, buttery, has the distinct fatty and meaty flavor of duck or goose, if you've ever had those.
Oh god. Cue the avalanche of animal-rights "activists" accusing the Voice of participating in a deliberate cover-up in three... two... one...
"You can buy humanely raised chicken, or you can buy chicken that's had a nasty, brutal life. The same goes for foie gras."
Or you can just evolve and not take part in something unecessary like eating foie gras. Then that way you wouldn't have to waste so much time trying so hard to prove something is seemingly relatively cruelty free....all things considered.
Theoretically, the foie gras can be nothing more than another part of using the whole bird. If the ducks are already being slaughtered for Peking Duck, then it would be a shame to waste the liver.
Yeah, you should consider mineralarianism. It's the only morally evolved way to eat.
Of the list of all things to be angry about in this world...this is what they've settled on? I mean, seriously.
Haha, evolve? Seriously? I'm so glad that you've found the end of human evolution and are aware of where we stand on that single continuum.
Or hey, why is eating vegetables necessary? Maybe we should all be eating sustaining protein glop instead. See you are missing the point, we do totally unnecessary things all the time because it makes our brief, relatively sad stay here on Earth a little better. If someone wants to eat foie gras that is raised about as nicely as any animal, more power to them. I've eaten it before (served with toast and a lovely cranberry and apple compote) and it was one of the most enjoyable things I've ever eaten.
How can force-feeding till they nearly burst be considered "humane"?
you're not reading the article...
Aren't the force-fed ducks the same as the obese people wandering around... anyway, I wouldn't buy force-fed foie gras...
damn, thefacts is a loser, it makes it a point to advocate for all animal cruelty. what a real fuck
ust watch it.
If you can watch it, then you can eat it.
That should be the law.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qxR4oCg35Jg
Posted by: epaul at January 9, 2009 10:25 AM
Wow, it took 20 comments for felix the cat to rear its head on a foie gras post, I am disappointed. Swamped at the PETA office today perhaps?!
Having sea kitten for dinner tonight, in case you're interested.
Hey asshole, I am so in you head that you can't stop with your fucking juvenile remarks. what a cunt
I can stop my "juvenile" remarks anytime, the question is can you resist commenting on foie gras / animal abuse /PETA type posts? So who's the bigger loser here, when no one gives a crap about your rants?!
cunt, you must give a damn since you remarked on your absence. loser
I meant Cunt, you must have cared since you remarked on my absence, loser. What is it to you if I comment against animal cruelty? get a life asswipe
Once we start to look at ducks as murder victims, our society, as we know it, has ended.
Our society end because of perverted people who think cruelty is excusable. that is why society is ended. Life should be respected and not used for sick perversions.
mmmmmmm, meat.
Oh, foie gras is gross, IMO. But I love me some meat products in general.
If chicken that's had a nasty, brutal life costs $3.99/pound and chicken that's been humanely raised costs $5.99/pound, I know which one I'm buying. I could pretend to feel otherwise but honestly it's just not all that important to me how my chicken is raised.
yummy. I love foie gras in dirty rice. Sorry to go off topic, but anyone know where to get a seared steak slice of it like they do on Japanese Iron Chef? Or even where to get it in the supermarket (non-pate form) ...in NYC? Thanks.
DiGregorio's this "expansive cover story" was hardly investigative journalism. The bulk of her coverage is devoted to the viewpoint of parties with a vested interest in the financial viability of the foie gras industry. She doesn’t interview any activists or leaders in the animal rights movement, and relies on hearsay to deride those who object to the inherent cruelty in foie gras production.