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Foie gras is produced by force-feeding ducks or geese so as to enlarge their liver up ..... using a tube called an ‘embuc’. Animal rights organizations con- ...
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Au début de la période de gavage, les canards et les oies sont ... à l'aide d'un tube appelé "l'embuc", des quantités croissantes d’un aliment ...
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Farm hands force-feed the birds a mixture of corn and fat, about half a kilogram per duck and over a kilogram per geese per meal, two or three times a day. They push a big tube down each bird's throat. The meal is held at the top of the tube in a funnel. Then they pump the food down by hand or electric motor. Delivery takes up to a minute, but pneumatic pumps take just a couple of seconds. In two or three weeks the birds are grossly fat with massive livers that have expanded up to ten times normal size.

Critics contend that force-feeding the ducks and geese for foie gras is cruel. Some of the effects of force-feeding, include bruising, inflammation and laceration of the mouth and throat. Bloated livers swell into the abdomen making standing and breathing laboured. The animals fall ill; haemorrhaging livers are among their problems. Some die from asphyxiation when farm workers stuff food into their trachea.

Foie gras producers insist that force-feeding is a bit like what wild ducks and geese and argue they are only exploiting the birds' natural body functions. Wild ducks and geese ingest large amounts of food to gain energy before migration. The birds' temporarily store the food in their oesophagus while digesting food in their stomach. Thus they can swallow large items, like as a fish, so force feeding does not harm the birds o when carefully done.

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The new version avoids the process known as la gavage - force-feeding birds with grain by using a metal tube - by allowing geese to stock up on extra food ...
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At last, guilt-free foie gras - Telegraph
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