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Summary: Diseased Liver: A Death Wish
Review: "Foie Gras-French for fatty liver-is the grossly enlarged liver of a duck or goose. Medically known as hepatic lipidosis, foie gras is a disease marketed as a delicacy. Birds raised for this gourmet cruelty are force-fed enormous quantities of food through a long metal pipe three times a day. This process of deliberate and painful overfeeding continues for up to a month, by which time the birds' livers have swelled up to twelve times their healthy size. The process of forced feeding is so traumatic, and the confinement and conditions on foie gras farms so debilitating, that the pre-slaughter mortality rate for foie gras production is up to 20 times the average rate on other duck factory farms." For more information on Foie Gras, go to http://www.gourmetcruelty.com
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Summary: Advance Praise for Foie Gras ... A Passion
Review: "This book, reflecting elegance and intellect, tells a story of immense passion! In tracing the history of foie gras, the authors carry us along through culinary traditions, ethnic cultures, and across continents. The recipes, matched with wines by the chefs who created them or the sommeliers who oversee the dining rooms where they are served, challenge the imagination and the palate." Ferdinand Metz, President The Culinary Institute of America
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Summary: Gourmet Disease
Review: "This is the best book I have found on the subject. Like another reviewer said it's a shame the overall score was lowered by political rants of an uneducated reviewer." Let me reply to that comment by saying that YOU are the one who is uneducated. I'd be amazed if you'd even seen a duck or a goose face to face. Ask anyone with any medical knowledge, foie gras is just a fancy name for a diseased liver. The liver's of these birds are enlarged way past there normal size. A duck's/goose's liver should be about the size of a golf ball at most. You could actually take foie gras to a doctor to have it tested and they would tell you that it's a disease. Mmmm, disease! Sorry, I think I'll stick to my nice healthy undiseased steak, thanks. Besides, video tape doesn't lie and you can find plenty of it if you look. I'm not against eating meat or anything like that but foie gras is just plain cruelty. So many countries have banned it, you'd think that would tell you something. I guess you're just a little too dim to get the message though. This book is nothing but another way to paint over the truth. Too paint over all the ugliness of this industry and pretend it doesn't exsist Oh, and evs, humans are OMNIVORES, not carnivores (which you didn't even spell right by the way). Thank you and A Customer for adding to my theory that foie gras eaters suffer from some sort of brain damage.
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Summary: Amazing
Review: Amazing book devoted to an amazing product. This book is so informative, that reading it, you can almost taste a slice of heaven. It's such a pleasure to finally have a book on the greatest food ever.
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Summary: Amazing
Review: Amazing book devoted to an amazing product. This book is so informative, that reading it, you can almost taste a slice of heaven. It's such a pleasure to finally have a book on the greatest food ever.
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Summary: From someone living in France...
Review: and to all those pathetic americans who find it trendy and snob to eat fois gras and french cuisine. CUT THE NONSENSE OUT...
French cooking is only refined in its cruelty to animals, shoving food down geeses' throats, cutting legs off live frogs and frying snails alive in hot oil.
Stop being so gullible and superficial, french cuisine is not only cruel it's a mess of indigestable food coated in sauce.
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Summary: Great book about an excellent ingredient!
Review: Foie Gras is a scapegoat for animal welfare types, and they're welcome to their say. Yes, foie gras is hepatic lipidosis... But that's what makes it so good! It's like well-marbled beef.. the extra fat in the liver makes the flavor exquisite. I've even had the opportunity to serve it to one of my animal welfare friends without their knowledge (yes, a bit on the dark side, I know), and they were absolutely thrilled with the taste. The top restaurants in the world will have foie gras as part of their menu. Perhaps some day biotechnologists will be able to grow it from liver cells so the animal welfare folks can move on to another cause... but for now, if you don't mind the controversy, get this book, learn all about Foie Gras as a gourmet ingredient, and boost your cooking expertise! Look, if the Iron Chefs use it, it's got to be good stuff! Remember, life is too short to eat low-quality food, and taste is everything!
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Summary: Cruel Cuisine
Review: Foie gras is considered to be a French delicacy, while in actuality it is nothing more than the grossly over-sized livers of geese and ducks who are intentionally made to suffer from hepatic lipidosis - or "fatty liver disease." This disease in itself is extremely painful - the liver becomes swollen to many times its normal size. It can't be as painful as having a metal tube shoved down one's throat 3+ times a day and being force-fed the human equivalent of 28 lbs of food per day. This is what the geese and ducks must endure until it is slaughter day. Many times the stomach ruptures from the overabundance of food, thus causing the liver to explode (please visit the website below to see trash cans filled with the bodies of ducks who died from force-feeding)...this renders the animal useless and it is discarded. Oftentimes upon examination of the dead birds, there is food (corn mash) filling the esophagus and spilling out of the nostrils. Yet according to Farm Sanctuary News, Ginor claims that this type of assembly-line force-feeding of thousands of birds "takes advantage of the birds' natural eating habits and physiology." Please visit farmsantuary.org for graphic photos of this "natural" process. Then you decide...are you going to eat this diseased organ "produced" from an animal who only knew suffering and pain in its short life? Hey, Ginor, cruelty to animals is not fashionable - your "passion" is disturbing.
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Summary: Wonderful book
Review: Great book, well-researched without once becoming "dry."
Foie Gras is wonderful food, it's a shame that ignorant people would try to prevent others from having it. We don't tell you what to eat - don't presume to tell us what we can and cannot have.
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Summary: Foie Gras: A shameful practice
Review: I can't believe that Foie Gras is still legal here! Anyone who eats it should be ashamed of themselves. It is pure callous gluttony when someone can eat a food that was obtained by literally torturing an animal. What do people think, that the duck's liver magically enlarges on it's own? If so, they would be drastically wrong. Those poor ducks are force fed through a pipe that is shoved down their throats! The workers who 'feed' the ducks get a bonus if they manage to not explode a certain number of duck's stomachs every month. I saw a video on this, and also saw a foie gras farm, which are not many because this cruel 'delicacy' is outlawed in so many places, but one farm is near where I live. It was worse than I imagine hell being. To all who eat this horror of a food: Find a tiny bit of compassion inside yourself. How would you like this to happen to your dog or cat?
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