Foie Gras

by Beth

As a vegetarian, I’m not going to be eating foie gras. Foie gras, in case you don’t know, is the liver of a goose that has been force fed to the point that it has developed fatty liver. Sounds rather disgusting to me (both the idea of eating a fatty liver and the force feeding of the poor geese), but people who eat it swear it’s delicious. Anyway, I watched this TED video of a story of foie gras being made a different way:

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more about “Dan Barber’s surprising foie gras par…“, posted with vodpod

I especially like how he takes what he learns about this “natural” foie gras and extends it to industrial agriculture as a whole.

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