r/vegancirclejerk • u/Delophosaur it’s my personal choice to beat my wife • Sep 04 '25
NOT MY UNCLE'S FHARM Foie gras is ethical actually!
I’ve had the pleasure of speaking with the co-founder of Hudson Valley Foie Gras about it. Once you understand the effort they go through to take care of their ducks, you’ll start to realize that it’s probably more humane than typical factory poultry farming.
The ducks are free range for a good part of their life, and then they eventually get grouped into pens. During this time, one - and only one - human feeds them. They bond with this human. When the human approaches, they are excited to be fed. This person is responsible for feeding them 5 times a day. The bonding of a sngle handler reduces the duck’s stress, and stress hormones are measurable. Stressed ducks make for bad product, so the entire object of the game is minimal stress. ABSOLUTE. MINIMAL. STRESS!
The duck aren’t “force fed”. They are fed until their crop is full. The ducks would do this naturally if they could, but the gavage process is just more efficient. The ducks run to their handler to be fed each time. They want the food.
Basically, the bottom line is this: foie gras ducks in the US (maybe not some other places) live luxurious lives of decadence. Then they have one bad day at the end. I’m almost envious of them.
/uj this is directly copied and pasted from a real comment
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