Fois Gras on Top Chef last night/graphic pix added not by me!!!!!!!

[hcammack]

ok I know this is a passionate subject so all I am going to say why would anyone want to eat the diseased liver of anything?

Henry

 

[SewingDiva]

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I've eaten fois grois and I agree.

~Phyllis

If thats how you feel. To allow even one animal to be abused for the gluttony of humans...Well then Fois Gras it is!!!PASS THE MOET CHANDON!!CHEERS!

Hey anybody crack open a live monkey head and eat its brains out yet?

So now you'e assuming I support animal abuse because I was honest In my opinion aobut what I've eaten and how I feel about it?

~Phyllis

 

[farmgirlie1031]

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Thanks greyfields. I used to raise beef cattle and I went to a dairy farm and saw all those poor calves chained up so they could not eat anything but milk and that just made me cry. But if they aren't chained up then I guess it is no different than beef. I've seen dairy cattle steers raised as beef so there is a use for all the unwanted males.

 

[blue90292]

hey greyfields! is that you in the avatar??

 

[greyfields]

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Ethically raised veal is marketed as "pink" or "rose" veal. If it's bone white looking meat, then you know they weren't afforded any room to move around in.

 

[greyfields]

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Yes. I am a goose. My name is Olive.

 

[Ace_king_brahma]

I have heard of it a lot growing up. It was my understanding that the geese were fed mash that was soaked with alcohol to created cirrhosis. I never knew about the forced feeding.

I have to ask... how healthy can this be for humans? I mean after all it's eating a diseased organ no matter if they are forced fed or fattened by the other humane methods.

 

[SewingDiva]

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It's by no means something a person would eat on even a marginally regular basis. I had it in a very very pricey restaurant and I doubt I'll ever try it gain. The serving I had was about the size of a piece of sushi.

~Phyllis

 

[Ace_king_brahma]

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My family was thinking about it when I first started raising geese. They figured give them the alcohol mash up till slaughter since they were to be eaten anyways. But since I wanted them to breed I won out and my birds were to be raised as pets. Then something got a hold of my goslings and ate them.

I'm raising more and the subject came up again. Mine are my pets and will not be used for fois gras period but my family is thinking of raising geese themselves. I just don't see this as a healthy entree. Besides I rather concentrate on the meat and not the liver if I'm going to raise a couple for meat.

 

[SeaChick]

I have to ask... how healthy can this be for humans? I mean after all it's eating a diseased organ no matter if they are forced fed or fattened by the other humane methods.

Yuh. I have to say this whole thread is a bummer and a real eye-opener. I've only been lucky (??) enough to have foie gras a few times, but I LOVED it. Of course, I had absolutely no idea it was
a) diseased liver
b) from such horrendously inhumanely treated animals.
I just thought it was goose liver!! And since I'm all for using every bit of an animal, and since it is sooooooooo delicious, I thought it was great.

Shudder, now.

What I want to know is why??? I mean, certainly someone in France 500 years ago didn't sit around and think, "Hey, I know! I'll make my goose's liver really diseased and it will be delicious!"---- Can't you have yummy goose liver without cirrosis? What does plain old goose liver taste like?

Anyway, thanks for the information.
Stacey​