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Foie gras – a delicious delicacy to some, blatant animal cruelty to others – requires ducks and geese to be force-fed high-calorie food through a tube into their stomachs. This excruciating ...

Key Points Scientists from the Max Planck Institute in Germany have developed a way to replicate the taste and texture of foie gras without force-feeding ducks or geese, using a key enzyme to ...

As a quick reminder, foie gras has traditionally been made by force-feeding ducks or geese to ensure they consume enough food to swell their livers up to 10 times their typical size.

As a quick reminder, foie gras has traditionally been made by force-feeding ducks or geese to ensure they consume enough food to swell their livers up to 10 times their typical size.

The production of the original version, which involves force-feeding ducks or geese, has led to bans in several countries. Foie gras is a French delicacy prized for its rich, buttery flavour.

Traditionally, it's made by force-feeding birds for weeks to fatten their livers, a practice that has led to foie gras being banned in several countries, including Denmark, the United Kingdom and ...

Foie gras in New York on Dec 8, 2015. Traditional foie gras, pictured here, is made through force-feeding fowl but researchers developed a method they say avoids that process, which one compared ...

A cruelly produced specialty: Foie gras is considered a specialty, but is produced by the atrocious method of force-feeding and is therefore heavily criticized. Alternative product without foie gras: ...

While he’ll eat foie gras produced by local farmers on occasion, Dr. Vilgis finds the force-feeding intolerable at an industrial scale. “It’s terrible to see,” he says.

Researchers wondered if there was a more ethical way to enjoy foie gras, so they created a process to replicate the dish without force-feeding ducks and geese beyond their normal diets. They ...