Anthony bourdain what the hell is this? If i hated how this process works, the more i hate now. If i was a vegan, the more i am now. That guy talking on the video, completelly biased. Ridicolous.
@edrusharry as far as i know, the anti videos arent BUSINESS biased, as it happens with this duck farm, and also with the CHEF anthony. The anti videos care about animals only. Fortunatelly, fois gras is being banned in some countries, more will follow.
@portair12 What about rhubarb, they keep it in the dark and force it to grow faster, I think thats cruel to rhubarb and that it should be banned, you dammned veggies are so cruel to your fruit..............
Here's a point that not many in the anti foie gras camp really recognize. How is foie gras any more cruel than say chicken nuggets? The conditions for those animals are far more inhumane. So dare I say it? If you consume any type of mass produced eat and are against foie gras, you fall under the definition of a hypocrite.
@0Blue0Sparkle Actually, he investigated the experience of the birds and spoke to a vet; a person who specializes in the health and well being of animals. In reality, the investigation shows he is interested in and is compasionate for other living things. Furthermore, his niche as a celebrity, is to make unpopular statements. Despite that, he provided valid evidence. Also, just because some one does not eat meat, does not neccesarly mean they are against foie gras. You confuse diet/politics.
Sorry I don't buy this as cruelty free. Besides, there is no need to do it this way. There is a time of year you can slaughter the animals in which they naturally gorge themselves and get their livers that fat on their own. No force feeding necessary. And it tastes exactly the same.
I eat meat all the time. I'm not an animal rights activist in any sense. Yet I think forcing a length of pipe into the throat of a goose to force feed it is kinda cruel. Killing an animal for it's meat takes seconds. Forcing it to grow big livers takes their lifetime. It really doesn't seem right to me.
you hardly can afford a big mac with your white-trash unskilled worker sallary. LMAO - you really are a hero, huh? insulting people hiding behind the anonymity of the internet. i'd really like to meet you in real life - you little sub human
@scott30428 Oh lolololo! You're actually threatening me over the internet!! You sir are hilarious. Stereotyped shitty insults and all. The sheer irony of a person who writes in badly punctuated, uncapitalised English accusing me of being 'unskilled' is breathtaking. I'd love to meet you in real life too so I can laugh at you and pinch your fat little cheeks.
do you actually get a stiff cock when you try to be someone (you will never be) on the internet? regarding the NUMBER of postings you write on youtube (countless) and the aggressive way of dealing with other people i only can come to the following conclusion: your life must be very very very random and shitty. but you're kind of funny though - in a kind of disgusting way. btw i speak 5 languages (4 fluently), so excuse my "breathtaking uncapitalised english. LOOOL
@scott30428 No I don't get a stiff cock when I comment on the internet. Only when I have long hard fucking sessions with your mother. Why did you need to show off about being a polyglot? You seem a bit insecure.
@TopplingColossus What do I think about that? I think you're retarded! I think you're a huge disappointment to your family. I think you're an uneducated douchebag who doesn't understand that a duck doesn't have a gag reflex in its throat like humans do and therefore don't react to "force feeding" as if it were done to humans. I think this is what makes you stupid: an absolute disregard for reality. Enjoy your stupidity! Thankfully that's not cancerous!
@darrenmuse You must understand, or at least appreciate, that CAPITALISTS always come up with a "satisfying" and "assuring" justification. You should be more inquisitive in your observations.
@12Antoniobu You are very stupid and shitty. Actually Mr Darren Muse is pro-fois gras. So why are you attacking him? What is your Intelligence Quotient?
@TopplingColossus "you are very stupid and shitty" WOW! I bow down to the intelligent and cutting retort uttered forth from the mouth of a genius with an intelligence quotient that puts Einstein to shame. (sarcasm intended)
@qwondoflex our/your culture of compassion is the reason the world is falling apart. both socially and economically. if you want to save the planet: kill yourself and while you are at it eat your kid. you are a parasite if you are human... as a fellow human i beg you to be rational and understand and embrace a much greater sense of "wrong" from which you can not and will never escape. enjoy your fois gras kids. its fucking delicious ..none of this shit matters...
I don't necessarily condone the force-feeding of ducks, but there are far more cruel things happening in this industry. Let's sort out the most evil deeds before we attack these.
i love anthony bourdain but i think hes only defending this cruel act because he loves foie gras. obviously the ducks shown in this video arnt the ones dying, nor the ones confined to a compartment so small they cant even spread one of their wings.
it breaks my heart seeing how people defend things like this just to satisfy their tastebuds. its inhumane.
@wednesdayblues88 i agree that he is a biased source, but at the same time i also think there are MANY different ways to raise and care for and even slaughter livestock. some people are cruel sick bastards who really don't give a f*ck, but i think these guys genuinely see their livestock as living breathing animals and they're not torturing them. there's two sides to every process, just pay attention to where you get your food from =)
@islakay Overall, there's nothing wrong with wanting to show a bit more respect for animals while they're alive, I fully support stopping caged and slotted livestock.
But you PETA freaks need to just get the hell over yourselves and stop screaming 'abuse' at everything. Half the shit you get angry about happens naturally anyway, so even if humans stop it, doesn't the rest of the animal kingdom will.
@LadyLatias To really show respect to animals, you must consider what they would want, not simply lessen their pain as they do what YOU want them to do. There is no such thing as humane slaughter. When you say you support stopping caged livestock, what are you actually doing to stop it? Don't make the mistake of assuming everyone who cares about animals supports PETA. Slaughtering entire genders at birth and keeping cows perpetually pregnant then making their babies veal is NOT natural.
@islakay I show my respect by giving them a healthy, stress free life before they are butchered as quickly and painlessly as possible. That is FAR more respect han any other predator would give them. I actually protest against caged livestock, I just know it's also natural to eat meat.
And even if you aren't with PETA, you sound as ridiculous and naive as them. I'm perfectly happy eating meat as nature intended.
@LadyLatias You keep comparing yourself to a predator. So am I to assume that you have the same reasoning skills as an animal? Yes, from what I've read. I choose to evolve.
You know what is truly naive? Letting yourself be brainwashed by the mass media— letting them tell you what nourishment is. You're clearly part of the mainstream that does what the media tells you to. Nature did not intend for humans to eat meat. The first humans were vegan. We came from primates. Makes sense, right?
@islakay Humans ARE animals. No matter how much we try to pretend we've evolved, we're still victims to our base urges. Just because I'm more evolved than another species, I should go out of my way for them?
And yes, humans did evolve from a species of primate that did majoritly eat fruits, vegetables, etc. We then discovered meat. As it became a more vital part of our diet, our brain size grew. That is the process of evolution, that is nature. Other animals are going through the same process.
@islakay Primates aren't vegan. They eat plenty of bugs. Haven't you seen the videos of them picking the bugs out of each others' hair and eating them? Great source of protein and healthy fats. :) Just checking on wikipedia, there are primates that eat: insects, crustaceans, small vertebrates, snakes, , bird eggs, small birds, lizards, squirrels, and bats. Primates are quite omnivorous.
@islakay And you have been brainwashed by the PETA brigade, those teeth at the front, yup, they are for ripping tearing and chewing meat, try em on a coconut and then a burger, I think you will realize which they are better for........................
@islakay And at this point, I'm agreeing to disagree.
No matter how much you kick and scream, I'm perfectly content eating a steak that I know has come from a good source because I live in a country that ensures happy, grass fed cattle. If someone wants to be a vegan/vegie, good for them.
But the type of vegan you are? It's more like a bloody cult with you shoving your beliefs down other people's throats. If anything, you've turned me even more OFF the idea of being a vegan.
I hate apologists who say that it doesn't really hurt the bird. Who cares? I eat foie gras because it tastes good and I'm not going to debate the ethics of it because offending one's sensibilities shouldn't be a reason to apologize. Some try to justify that it's cruel, some try to justify it's not. If you think eating foie gras is okay, then don't indulge the haters by trying to justify it. Just eat the fucking thing. Dopes it cause pain? Yes, no, maybe. I just don't care. I really don't.
@chefkoo Honestly, I would rather hear a response like yours than someone trying to justify force feeding. At least you stand by your ignorance and mediocrity willingly.
Since 2500 BC!!! Quite a while, huh? This exploitation thing, and how it will, what was it that you had said, sagradamoly, that it will "Cease to exist", sure is taking a long, damn time to prove that theory to be correct, huh? That's 'cause you're WRONG!!! AND, only goes to show that when people (Wooooops, I meant "Animals") EAT animals, and raise them in an environment so that they can do just that, is not going to drive a species to extinction. Pretty retarded, for all those useless degrees!
This is fucking bullshit, total propaganda, just as bad as the vegan extremists, you can tell that the vet was paid off, or some bullshit, my ass it is stress free for the ducks, they are being FORCE fed how is that stress free?? and living at such high densities, cant be good. Fuck you Anthony B.
@beastbosswarrior wtf do you know about anything you vegan moron? Have you ever had to work a day in your life? I bet you still live in your mom's basement. Get a life or get lost.
@beastbosswarrior ...Even if the vet has been paid off, that doesn't make his information any less true. That is duck physiology, a duck isn't harmed nor bothered with having the tube down it's throat and a ducks liver DOES function in a different way than a humans.
It's less stressful because the duck is in a closed and proteced environment where it is not at the mercy of foxes, hounds, etc. meaning it doesn't fear for it's life (ironic, I know) and also has a ready supply of food/water.
I fully support foie gras production, but this is no at all a critical assessment of its farming. Yes, some animals are hurt, as it is with all other animal farming. A necessary "evil" just like the eventual slaughter of every farm animal. That's what they are there for - to feed us. If not for farming, they would never have been born.
@mightisright Why would you assume that animals exist to feed us? Do black people exist to be slaves? Absolutely not. Do women exist to serve men? Hell no. There is plenty to eat on this planet without involving animals. In fact, we would be able to feed a lot more people if we didn't rely on animal agriculture.
@islakay Think you will find the worlds population is increasing faster than food production!
And you veggies will be the first to go because after all you campaigning for bio fuels you will realize we turned all your veggie fields into bio fuel fields,now wheres my two stroke dirt bike got to?
@islakay Animals, plants, fungi and the rest aren't here to DO anything. They simply exist and die. Millions of cows exist today for the sole reason that they were bred and fed by humans for consumption. The same is true of fields of wheat. I don't believe animals are above plants, unlike you. I also recognize in order to live others must die. That is the cycle of life.
And yes, absolutely I would eat a dog under favorable conditions.
This is the most ridiculous piece of pro-foie gras propaganda ever. What part of shoving a tube down an animal's throat to force feed them when they wouldn't willing choose that is humane? No, they don't choke, no they don't struggle much, but science is evidence and it shows rips in the esophagus, hemohages in the liver, and if that vet doesn't think that causes stress, then he's a bloody nut job!
The point is, even if people think they are 'just ducks' at the end of the day, they're still able to suffer and feel pain. I am French and certainly not a vegetarian but I acknowledge there is a difference between slaughtering an animal humanely and force feeding one until its liver is diseased.
@islakay Quick and painless, stunned so they are unconscious and then killed quickly. I believe that a humane way of slaughtering an animal is based on the idea of limiting any prolonged pain or suffering before death (this includes the life they live beforehand). Minimum being that it is unconscious and not able to feel pain or fear while being slaughtered. Just like there is a difference between burning yourself alive and blowing your brains out.
@bums009 You must first define what humane means. It means treated like a human, treated as you would want to be treated. I doubt that you would choose to be slaughtered.
@islakay Well actually I don't have to define anything, but I'll humour you. Humane does not mean necessarily to be treated as a human (try defining that), it just means to be treated with compassion in accordance to humanistic values. No, I would not choose to be slaughtered, but you seem to be assuming that humans and animals have the same capacity to make decisions and the same complexity of sentimental value that we place on life.
@bums009 "there is a difference between slaughtering an animal humanely and force feeding one until its liver is diseased"
Oh, please! The ducks don't mind in the least, and their livers are not diseased, they're "fattened". The ducks cheerfully come to the feeder. They like the deep-throat experience. Your gross exaggerations don't add to your credibility.
@sagradamoly i would consider your point of view, but there are other videos out there stating otherwise. what about the ones that die in the process? what about the ones cramped in cages w minimal space for even the slightest movement, and having to stew in their own filth? im all for having happy healthy ducks being force-fed for the satisfaction of our tastebuds but id like to know none of them has to undergo any form of torture.
@wednesdayblues88: "what about the ones cramped in cages w minimal space for even the slightest movement, and having to stew in their own filth?"
Nobody eats fowl that have been "stewing in their own filth" Those will be smelly, pus-rotten, diseased ducks. No chef wants to serve Bird Flu or Salmonella, so the only safe way raise eating ducks is to take tender loving care of them - all the way to the cooking pot.
@sagradamoly *facepalm* A person or animal gets a fatty liver when it's diseased. The farmers make the duck's liver store fat faster than normal and their bodies struggle to deal with the extreme nutrient imbalance.
@JDivinorumVideo Ducks are not humans and they gorge themselves in the wild - learn something about how they exist... their migratory habits and how they need that extra stored "energy" for the long flight. They stuff themselves to the point that they can barely fly at all. Take your PETA lies out of my foie gras-loving face.
@LairdDrambeg Sure ducks aren't humans but we are both animals. Everything I've read from scientiests says that ducks do not suffer from extreme nutrient imbalances in the wild. Also, what do you think happens to the female ducks? They throw them away because their livers aren't good for eating.
@JDivinorumVideo What is it that you do not understand here: ducks and humans have different physiology - they are fed the same grain-based product they gorge on in the wild. There is no nutrient imbalance - the swelling of the liver is a reversible process for storing energy and then using it when required just as it happens in the wild. Look - quit trying to sabotage the production of food which others like and choose to eat and we'll leave you alone to eat your vegan crap.
@LairdDrambeg You're still overlooking the damage being done to the duck's oesophagus. You're also overlooking what they do to the female ducks that they can't harvest diseased livers from. In the wild, ducks get cues to eat more from nature. Force feeding them isn't part of their natural life-cycle and it causes them discomfort. Their liver is unable to clean their blood and remove toxins which affects other organs in a negative way.
@JDivinorumVideo A duck's esophagus is different from a human's and is much tougher - more like the palm of your hand - to withstand abrasion from fish fins and rough vegetation... and the tube is smooth, so no damage. "Cues from nature" (titter) and "discomfort" of a duck are pure imaginary fantasies obtained from projecting human physiology on to a duck - conjured up by PETA to bring in the bucks from fools like you.
@LairdDrambeg No, cues from nature and discomfort aren't imaginary just because you think so. Can you provide me with any links that say that the ducks suffer no discomfort? All of the articles I've read say that the ducks suffer pain from this process, and they aren't PETA articles.
@JDivinorumVideo Just because an article is not associated with PETA directly, does not mean it is not written by a person who sympathizes with PETA. That means the article may be written by a biased author. Also, authors tend to enjoy money. Money, in stories like this, follow the line empathy. People are upset over the ducks and will become emotionally attached to an article that demonizes the behavior of farms, whether the ducks realy experience discomfort or not is not relevant to an author.
@sagradamoly i believe we as human beings need to come up with a solution to care more about the fatty livers of Americans rather than ducks...I love USA dont get me wrong, but there are some serious weight issues in USA...
These ducks live in better conditions than most factory farmed pigs, cows and chickens. I used to have MAJOR reservations about eating fois gras, but in the last few years, I've become a convert; yum : )
2. Proof that the ducks will voluntarily get an enlarged/swollen liver by giving them a buffet of feed. I'm not sure if there ain't force feeding, the duck will eat themselves to death.
Duck's don't have gag reflexes and their esophogus contain no pain receptors. If you've ever seen a Crane or a pelican swallow a fish whole while the fish is still flipping in the bird's neck, you'd know they aren't exactly like us. and you can't make the jump that tube feeding is stressful for the bird.
Quote "People actually believe that force feeding ducks is cruel".... does this guy even understand what he is talking about, he has no idea. Foie Gras production must stop !!!!!!!!!
A lot of other animals such as cows (especially for veal), chicken, turkeys,and lamb are treated the exact same. If you guys hate foie gras as much as you say you do, you should probably be a vegetarian or else it's wonderfully ironic.
@XoXoSakuraKissXoXo Yes, other food animal industries have their problems too, and we all need to work together to demand more humane production practices. I'm not vegan, veterarian, or an extremist, but I do work for an organization that is attempting to put a stop to these practices in the most legal and transparent ways possible. I DO eat meat, but I choose humanely raised "SPCA Certified" products. Google it.
@brs054 man, you sound like everybody's eating PEOPLE! What confused nonsense. These are animals in case you didn't know. Animals are for eating. If you don't treat animals right, they taste bad. Is that so hard to understand?
@sagradamoly Your attempt to anthropomorphize my comments is lame. What is happening in the foie gras industry is animal exploitation. A fatty duck liver is not essential to human health. It is a luxury that comes at the cost of animal exploitation. We need to respect what sustains human life and realize that when taken for granted and treated poorly, that sustenance will cease to exist. Is that so hard for YOU to understand? FYI: people are animals too, in case you didn't know.
@brs054 There's something wrong in your ethics. Animals are not our friends or our children - they're for eating. Eating animals is not exploitation, it's feeding ourselves. If we want to fatten the creatures up before eating them, so much the better. Notice that we have to treat them nicely in order to fatten them up. There's more animals on this planet than there ever have been, so there's definitely something cuckoo about your logic as well as your ethics.
@sagradamoly Where are you getting this fluff? tra la la animals are our friends...weee! It is clear to me you have never worked in a barn before. You do not have to treat an animal nicely to make it fat. Put it in a bare concrete pen alone with all the food it can eat and watch what happens. I've had the misfortune of seeing that first hand. That IS exploitation. There are more animals on earth now b/c there are more people raising them to feed the growing population. It's not rocket science.
@sagradamoly Don't quit your day job. 1.) I'm a female, not a "city boy". 2.) I grew up on a farm on the prairies 3.) I spent over a decade working on different livestock farms - pigs, sheep, dairy cows, poultry 4.) I have a B.Sc. in Agriculture - Animal Science to be exact 5.) I worked on a farm to earn my M.Sc. in farm animal behaviour and have published in scientific journals - I know how mistreatment leads to stress 6.) look up "exploit" in the dictionary, you are unclear on what it means.
Foie gras is not everyday food; it is expensive and luxury. And off course there are also black sheep of farmers.
But I think the whole [PETA] activism is totally wrong.
We are eating animals and the human race is that big, that it is not enough to rely on few wild birds... and farming creates problems; environmental as they are not always "humane".
Though if humans losing their culinary culture, what leaves behind?
Who tried fake meat already? Taste very very wrong!
What a bunch of b*llshit! like anybody believes this. Lets ask the experts out of FRANCE, those are exactly the people who produce foie gras. Offcourse they agree with him! This slaughter must stop!!
Everyone has to remember that foie gras farms are the SAME as any other type of farm: there are good, and there are bad. As long as we promote the people who give-a-shit (organic, humane, etc) by buying their product, there is nothing to be ashamed of when enjoying foie gras, as well as any other meat, dairy, etc.
Not all Fois Gras is produced this way, many have the ducks in small individual cages to limit their movement. Regardless, even this farm is far from ideal. Ducks would prefer to be next to a pond, foraging for their food (they like bugs, slugs, etc.). People who like Fois Gras will justify this no matter what, but it should be stopped, we can live without it.
@Miss65boo Now that's when I do think that the production of foie gras is bad, but that kind of treatment towards animals is done in nearly ANY sort of animal agriculture. Caged Chickens, the 'slots' used by pigs and cows where they literally just stand there and eat out of one end and crap out of the other.
Banning foie gras doesn't change the fact that OTHER animals are still treated like this, rather than ban it, why don't they pass laws to ensure good treatment of ANY animal.
Regardless of the fuction of their throats, being force-fed is a stressful experience for any animal. The Dr claimed that a goose's liver stores more fat than a mammal, which is true, but not until the point where it gets diseased, which he gave no comment. Why didn't he comment on the fact the mortality rate is higher than in other industries and the fractures on the throats of many birds who have been examined? No scenes of the bird's condition right before slaughter either!
If you're trying to expel the myth that an industry is not cruel, you don't need to generalise those who are concerned about it, because you already have evidence to reply on. Instead we get rosy pictures of the dish, an unnecessary history, depictions of over-crowded birds with a voice over saying, "Look how happy they are!" and some 'not so skillful' editing of birds craning through the cage bars, making it look as though they're fighting to get to the tube. Hmm, funny. They weren't on 2:25!
So...after watching this, realizing the ducks ARE slammed together in tiny cages, living their short lives out hardly seeing the sun and are still force fed every day regardless of how tough their throats are, I'm supposed to be okay with this? I hope your families die.
@ErictheGreat dude, they're ducks... hoping that someone's families die simply establishes you as a fucked up cunt that probably idolizes extremist anti-foie gras terrorism.
HAHAHAHHA!!! oh.. i thought this was a joke. There are so many things wrong with this video, I don't know what to say. Anthony Bourdain, I didn't watch you in the first place, and now I'll never watch you, you can go fuck yourself and your bullshit propaganda. - It's like watching a trial where the plaintiff has no proof and a bunch of paid experts to tell us morons the difference between mammals and birds..
@natija08 I wasn't being serious, you twit. I support the natural process of killing animals for food, but I follow French belief that the animal should be treated respectfully while it is alive.
I support NO killing of humans or animals - not for food and not for other purposes.
Is it respectful to force feed an animal?
France is the country which "produces" the most foie gras of the world!
If you look at the law, force feeding is cruelty to animals. But the French Government declared foie gras as a "cultural tradition". It's so evil to do this.
@natija08 I would first like to point out that it's natural to kill other animals for food. Until you can convince a lion to eat tofu without it dieing of hunger, I'm sticking by this.
I don't think the ducks care either way if they're being force fed or not, why should we? Their livers are designed for this, and research has proven ducks will overeat large amounts anyway to prepare when migrating, I fail to see the problem.
Look, we are humans, aren't we? We can DECIDE what to eat - animals can't.
You may ask me, why we shouldn't eat animals.
I give you a simple answer: Because they suffer. Animals feel pain and fear as we do. We shouldn't torture them, because we can live a good life, perhaps a better life, without eating meat and other animal products.
If it would be true that ducks eat as much as they can and produce a fatty liver by themselves - why than forcefeed them?
@natija08 ...That's seriously your answer? We shouldn't eat them because we're BETTER than them? Even for a vegan, that's the most ARROGANT excuse I've ever heard. I fully support people who want to be vegetarians because they simply don't like the taste of meat or want to be healthier, that's fine to me, but come on.
And because a duck has this psychologically imprinted into their brain when to store fat. And if they're not flying south, why store fat? I don't think the ducks care either way.
Where did I see, we shouldn't eat animals because we are better? I said we shouldn't eat them, because they SUFFER pain and fear in our cages and slaughterhouses.
You don't THINK the duck cares?
Let's make an experiment: You offer the duck two possibilities: a cage with force feeding and a meadow with a pond. If the duck chooses the cage - you are right.
@natija08 You're suggesting it. And news flash, do you think animals in the wild don't suffer pain or stress? No, the lion is not going to give two hoots if the antelope is numbed by pain when it rips the flesh off it's bones. It's nature.
I don't support the use of slot pigs/cows or caged hens, I will give you that, the stress gives bad flavour to the meat and products. But under ethical treatment, animals are less stressed than they would be in the wild.
@natija08 And slaughterhouses, in theory, are supposed to be quicker and more painless than what they would suffer in the wild. Any slaughterhouse that doen't, such as what Mayalsian slaughterhouses were doing to Australian cattle, I'd happily burn to the ground.
And I'm saying I don't think ducks have the brain capacity to care if their force fed or not, it isn't as if it's painful or dangerous. I also NEVER said I support caged force feeding.
Veggie-fascist propaganda has been countered with the truth.
MrManrush 13 hours ago
Anthony Bourdain you fucking son of a bitch. Just look at how cruel these animals are force fed.
rcpola 1 week ago
Is there seriously a debate as to whether or not ducks are people?
ShrugMeSilly245 1 week ago
Not surprised CA is banning foie gras but they can let illegals get heath care and grants to go to college. F'in liberal communists.
fooootos 1 week ago
Anthony bourdain what the hell is this? If i hated how this process works, the more i hate now. If i was a vegan, the more i am now. That guy talking on the video, completelly biased. Ridicolous.
portair12 2 weeks ago
@portair12 And all the anti videos aren't biased and showing it in as bad a light as possible....................
edrusharry 1 week ago
@edrusharry as far as i know, the anti videos arent BUSINESS biased, as it happens with this duck farm, and also with the CHEF anthony. The anti videos care about animals only. Fortunatelly, fois gras is being banned in some countries, more will follow.
portair12 1 week ago
@portair12 What about rhubarb, they keep it in the dark and force it to grow faster, I think thats cruel to rhubarb and that it should be banned, you dammned veggies are so cruel to your fruit..............
edrusharry 1 week ago
@edrusharry vegetables, as far as science knows, dont have a central nervous system. So they dont feel pain or pleasure. Animals do.
portair12 1 week ago
Here's a point that not many in the anti foie gras camp really recognize. How is foie gras any more cruel than say chicken nuggets? The conditions for those animals are far more inhumane. So dare I say it? If you consume any type of mass produced eat and are against foie gras, you fall under the definition of a hypocrite.
beastlycubist4 2 weeks ago
what the hell going here?it just a animal asshole,accept a reality,food is food i dont give a damn about how they got killed,
kalimacho1 2 weeks ago 2
Lol y'all need to chill out ,these are animals ,all he think of is food sleep,and reproduce ,,
lanternarrow 3 weeks ago
vegans and tree huggers need to stop forcing their views on others
EngineerDeven 3 weeks ago
@EngineerDeven Never happen mate, they are so hungry they are grumpy all the time so need to vent their frustrations on us happy people lol
edrusharry 1 week ago
They're birds, jesus. So many complainers, if you don't agree with it then don't eat it! Don't ruin foie gras for the rest of us!
ChewbacaChunx 3 weeks ago
What a douchebag. He is so disrespectful to vegans and vegetarians and shows no compassion for other organisms.
0Blue0Sparkle 1 month ago
@0Blue0Sparkle or·gan·ism/ˈôrgəˌnizəm/
Noun: An individual animal, plant, or single-celled life form. The material structure of such an individual
rangerbagel 1 month ago
@0Blue0Sparkle Actually, he investigated the experience of the birds and spoke to a vet; a person who specializes in the health and well being of animals. In reality, the investigation shows he is interested in and is compasionate for other living things. Furthermore, his niche as a celebrity, is to make unpopular statements. Despite that, he provided valid evidence. Also, just because some one does not eat meat, does not neccesarly mean they are against foie gras. You confuse diet/politics.
666NedFlanders 3 weeks ago
@0Blue0Sparkle How much compassion am i supposed to show mushrooms and e-coli??
You kill billions of little organisms everytime you take antibiotics, you mass murderer.
And you are disrespectfull to other people who choose to eat what THEY would like to eat, your view is not the only one........................
edrusharry 1 week ago
Let's see, high crime rates, terrorists, greedy politicians, union scams....glad people are looking out for the ducks instead.
edom7 1 month ago
asshole!!!! force-feeding is not cool however you present it!
vineram 1 month ago
Fuck you by saying happy animal.!
audreyjee 1 month ago
Sorry I don't buy this as cruelty free. Besides, there is no need to do it this way. There is a time of year you can slaughter the animals in which they naturally gorge themselves and get their livers that fat on their own. No force feeding necessary. And it tastes exactly the same.
Theliberaldiva 1 month ago
I eat meat all the time. I'm not an animal rights activist in any sense. Yet I think forcing a length of pipe into the throat of a goose to force feed it is kinda cruel. Killing an animal for it's meat takes seconds. Forcing it to grow big livers takes their lifetime. It really doesn't seem right to me.
eikons 1 month ago
@eikons Not a lifetime, 3-4 weeks.
edrusharry 1 week ago
I love foie gras en croute!
12Antoniobu 1 month ago
@12Antoniobu
you hardly can afford a big mac with your white-trash unskilled worker sallary. LMAO - you really are a hero, huh? insulting people hiding behind the anonymity of the internet. i'd really like to meet you in real life - you little sub human
scott30428 1 month ago
@scott30428 Oh lolololo! You're actually threatening me over the internet!! You sir are hilarious. Stereotyped shitty insults and all. The sheer irony of a person who writes in badly punctuated, uncapitalised English accusing me of being 'unskilled' is breathtaking. I'd love to meet you in real life too so I can laugh at you and pinch your fat little cheeks.
12Antoniobu 1 month ago
@12Antoniobu
do you actually get a stiff cock when you try to be someone (you will never be) on the internet? regarding the NUMBER of postings you write on youtube (countless) and the aggressive way of dealing with other people i only can come to the following conclusion: your life must be very very very random and shitty. but you're kind of funny though - in a kind of disgusting way. btw i speak 5 languages (4 fluently), so excuse my "breathtaking uncapitalised english. LOOOL
scott30428 1 month ago
@scott30428 No I don't get a stiff cock when I comment on the internet. Only when I have long hard fucking sessions with your mother. Why did you need to show off about being a polyglot? You seem a bit insecure.
12Antoniobu 1 month ago
FUCK PETA
kb82481 1 month ago
Stop eating those helpless plants - you bastards.
Atlasmark 1 month ago 18
she's not evil at all...she's just a huge SELFISH
hariworks 1 month ago
I really don't care if some ducks are force fed. It doesn't really bother me.
darrenmuse 2 months ago
@darrenmuse And if you get a cancer (which i wish you get) i won't give a fuck about you! What about that now? Coward!
TopplingColossus 1 month ago
@TopplingColossus What do I think about that? I think you're retarded! I think you're a huge disappointment to your family. I think you're an uneducated douchebag who doesn't understand that a duck doesn't have a gag reflex in its throat like humans do and therefore don't react to "force feeding" as if it were done to humans. I think this is what makes you stupid: an absolute disregard for reality. Enjoy your stupidity! Thankfully that's not cancerous!
darrenmuse 1 month ago
@darrenmuse You must understand, or at least appreciate, that CAPITALISTS always come up with a "satisfying" and "assuring" justification. You should be more inquisitive in your observations.
TopplingColossus 1 month ago
@TopplingColossus What the FUCK does foie gras have to do with capitalism versus whatever bullshit political philosophy you espouse. FUCK OFF!
12Antoniobu 1 month ago
@darrenmuse The ducks enjoy being fed you dumb shit. Fuck off and die.
12Antoniobu 1 month ago
@12Antoniobu You are very stupid and shitty. Actually Mr Darren Muse is pro-fois gras. So why are you attacking him? What is your Intelligence Quotient?
TopplingColossus 1 month ago
@TopplingColossus "you are very stupid and shitty" WOW! I bow down to the intelligent and cutting retort uttered forth from the mouth of a genius with an intelligence quotient that puts Einstein to shame. (sarcasm intended)
12Antoniobu 1 month ago
@TopplingColossus Pathetic.
Y0uTjuber 1 month ago
Force feed human infants, and eat their livers. Yummmmy ! MMMMMM.
qwondoflex 2 months ago
@qwondoflex our/your culture of compassion is the reason the world is falling apart. both socially and economically. if you want to save the planet: kill yourself and while you are at it eat your kid. you are a parasite if you are human... as a fellow human i beg you to be rational and understand and embrace a much greater sense of "wrong" from which you can not and will never escape. enjoy your fois gras kids. its fucking delicious ..none of this shit matters...
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FUCK VEGANS!!
1jager17 2 months ago
FUCK VEGANS!!!
1jager17 2 months ago 7
@1jager17 Fuck heartless bastards!
MrStokeGuy 2 months ago
@MrStokeGuy I fucked your mother then we ate foie gras together.
12Antoniobu 1 month ago
@1jager17 I'd like to fuck vegans with a nice big salami for the lulz
12Antoniobu 1 month ago
@12Antoniobu If you eat a vegan does that count as all your portions of fruit and vegetables for the day? Bet they taste better than cabbage 8)
edrusharry 1 week ago
I don't necessarily condone the force-feeding of ducks, but there are far more cruel things happening in this industry. Let's sort out the most evil deeds before we attack these.
Lunarvx22 2 months ago
my solution, dont eat it
JessicaXMayhem 2 months ago
Life feeds on life feeds on life feeds on life....this is necessary....
yakuzelizard 2 months ago
I've eaten this foie gras and holy shit, it's amazing. Thanks to Tony for battling the PC lies!
luminousball 2 months ago
i love anthony bourdain but i think hes only defending this cruel act because he loves foie gras. obviously the ducks shown in this video arnt the ones dying, nor the ones confined to a compartment so small they cant even spread one of their wings.
it breaks my heart seeing how people defend things like this just to satisfy their tastebuds. its inhumane.
wednesdayblues88 3 months ago
@wednesdayblues88 i agree that he is a biased source, but at the same time i also think there are MANY different ways to raise and care for and even slaughter livestock. some people are cruel sick bastards who really don't give a f*ck, but i think these guys genuinely see their livestock as living breathing animals and they're not torturing them. there's two sides to every process, just pay attention to where you get your food from =)
OnlySuzyV 2 months ago
@OnlySuzyV agreed! :)
wednesdayblues88 2 months ago
@islakay Overall, there's nothing wrong with wanting to show a bit more respect for animals while they're alive, I fully support stopping caged and slotted livestock.
But you PETA freaks need to just get the hell over yourselves and stop screaming 'abuse' at everything. Half the shit you get angry about happens naturally anyway, so even if humans stop it, doesn't the rest of the animal kingdom will.
LadyLatias 3 months ago
@LadyLatias To really show respect to animals, you must consider what they would want, not simply lessen their pain as they do what YOU want them to do. There is no such thing as humane slaughter. When you say you support stopping caged livestock, what are you actually doing to stop it? Don't make the mistake of assuming everyone who cares about animals supports PETA. Slaughtering entire genders at birth and keeping cows perpetually pregnant then making their babies veal is NOT natural.
islakay 3 months ago
@islakay I show my respect by giving them a healthy, stress free life before they are butchered as quickly and painlessly as possible. That is FAR more respect han any other predator would give them. I actually protest against caged livestock, I just know it's also natural to eat meat.
And even if you aren't with PETA, you sound as ridiculous and naive as them. I'm perfectly happy eating meat as nature intended.
LadyLatias 3 months ago
@LadyLatias You keep comparing yourself to a predator. So am I to assume that you have the same reasoning skills as an animal? Yes, from what I've read. I choose to evolve.
You know what is truly naive? Letting yourself be brainwashed by the mass media— letting them tell you what nourishment is. You're clearly part of the mainstream that does what the media tells you to. Nature did not intend for humans to eat meat. The first humans were vegan. We came from primates. Makes sense, right?
islakay 3 months ago
@islakay Humans ARE animals. No matter how much we try to pretend we've evolved, we're still victims to our base urges. Just because I'm more evolved than another species, I should go out of my way for them?
And yes, humans did evolve from a species of primate that did majoritly eat fruits, vegetables, etc. We then discovered meat. As it became a more vital part of our diet, our brain size grew. That is the process of evolution, that is nature. Other animals are going through the same process.
LadyLatias 3 months ago
@islakay Primates aren't vegan. They eat plenty of bugs. Haven't you seen the videos of them picking the bugs out of each others' hair and eating them? Great source of protein and healthy fats. :) Just checking on wikipedia, there are primates that eat: insects, crustaceans, small vertebrates, snakes, , bird eggs, small birds, lizards, squirrels, and bats. Primates are quite omnivorous.
NovaStarr 3 months ago
@islakay "the first humans were vegan"
Holy FUCK, you're stupid.
ItsSomeDeadGuy 2 months ago
@islakay And you have been brainwashed by the PETA brigade, those teeth at the front, yup, they are for ripping tearing and chewing meat, try em on a coconut and then a burger, I think you will realize which they are better for........................
edrusharry 1 week ago
@islakay And at this point, I'm agreeing to disagree.
No matter how much you kick and scream, I'm perfectly content eating a steak that I know has come from a good source because I live in a country that ensures happy, grass fed cattle. If someone wants to be a vegan/vegie, good for them.
But the type of vegan you are? It's more like a bloody cult with you shoving your beliefs down other people's throats. If anything, you've turned me even more OFF the idea of being a vegan.
LadyLatias 3 months ago
@islakay I respect my dog but he wants to fly a 747, should I let him?
He also wants to bite the postman every time he sees him, I let him do that so I must be a good guy?
edrusharry 1 week ago
What a fucking loser with too much time on his hands. You like force feeding? Force feed yourself.
islakay 3 months ago
I hate apologists who say that it doesn't really hurt the bird. Who cares? I eat foie gras because it tastes good and I'm not going to debate the ethics of it because offending one's sensibilities shouldn't be a reason to apologize. Some try to justify that it's cruel, some try to justify it's not. If you think eating foie gras is okay, then don't indulge the haters by trying to justify it. Just eat the fucking thing. Dopes it cause pain? Yes, no, maybe. I just don't care. I really don't.
chefkoo 3 months ago
@chefkoo Honestly, I would rather hear a response like yours than someone trying to justify force feeding. At least you stand by your ignorance and mediocrity willingly.
islakay 3 months ago
@islakay I'm neither of those. I'm fully aware of the issue. I just don't care if it's "cruel" or not.
chefkoo 3 months ago
ha ha ha ha it's so funny that when people are wrong and proven wrong, they resort to name calling. way to act 5, losers!
brs054 3 months ago
Since 2500 BC!!! Quite a while, huh? This exploitation thing, and how it will, what was it that you had said, sagradamoly, that it will "Cease to exist", sure is taking a long, damn time to prove that theory to be correct, huh? That's 'cause you're WRONG!!! AND, only goes to show that when people (Wooooops, I meant "Animals") EAT animals, and raise them in an environment so that they can do just that, is not going to drive a species to extinction. Pretty retarded, for all those useless degrees!
INFIDEL82AA 3 months ago
This is fucking bullshit, total propaganda, just as bad as the vegan extremists, you can tell that the vet was paid off, or some bullshit, my ass it is stress free for the ducks, they are being FORCE fed how is that stress free?? and living at such high densities, cant be good. Fuck you Anthony B.
beastbosswarrior 3 months ago
@beastbosswarrior wtf do you know about anything you vegan moron? Have you ever had to work a day in your life? I bet you still live in your mom's basement. Get a life or get lost.
sagradamoly 3 months ago
@beastbosswarrior ...Even if the vet has been paid off, that doesn't make his information any less true. That is duck physiology, a duck isn't harmed nor bothered with having the tube down it's throat and a ducks liver DOES function in a different way than a humans.
It's less stressful because the duck is in a closed and proteced environment where it is not at the mercy of foxes, hounds, etc. meaning it doesn't fear for it's life (ironic, I know) and also has a ready supply of food/water.
LadyLatias 3 months ago
I fully support foie gras production, but this is no at all a critical assessment of its farming. Yes, some animals are hurt, as it is with all other animal farming. A necessary "evil" just like the eventual slaughter of every farm animal. That's what they are there for - to feed us. If not for farming, they would never have been born.
mightisright 3 months ago
@mightisright
I think you can't imagine the pain and fear the ducks have to suffer.
It would be much, much better for them they would never have been born.
natija08 3 months ago
@mightisright Why would you assume that animals exist to feed us? Do black people exist to be slaves? Absolutely not. Do women exist to serve men? Hell no. There is plenty to eat on this planet without involving animals. In fact, we would be able to feed a lot more people if we didn't rely on animal agriculture.
islakay 3 months ago
@islakay Think you will find the worlds population is increasing faster than food production!
And you veggies will be the first to go because after all you campaigning for bio fuels you will realize we turned all your veggie fields into bio fuel fields,now wheres my two stroke dirt bike got to?
edrusharry 1 week ago
@mightisright Why do you think that animals are here to serve you? Would you eat a dog?
islakay 3 months ago
@islakay Animals, plants, fungi and the rest aren't here to DO anything. They simply exist and die. Millions of cows exist today for the sole reason that they were bred and fed by humans for consumption. The same is true of fields of wheat. I don't believe animals are above plants, unlike you. I also recognize in order to live others must die. That is the cycle of life.
And yes, absolutely I would eat a dog under favorable conditions.
mightisright 3 months ago 2
This is the most ridiculous piece of pro-foie gras propaganda ever. What part of shoving a tube down an animal's throat to force feed them when they wouldn't willing choose that is humane? No, they don't choke, no they don't struggle much, but science is evidence and it shows rips in the esophagus, hemohages in the liver, and if that vet doesn't think that causes stress, then he's a bloody nut job!
brs054 3 months ago
The point is, even if people think they are 'just ducks' at the end of the day, they're still able to suffer and feel pain. I am French and certainly not a vegetarian but I acknowledge there is a difference between slaughtering an animal humanely and force feeding one until its liver is diseased.
bums009 3 months ago 4
@bums009 How do you slaughter an animal humanely? If you were to be slaughtered, what would be your method of choice? Just curious.
islakay 3 months ago
@islakay Quick and painless, stunned so they are unconscious and then killed quickly. I believe that a humane way of slaughtering an animal is based on the idea of limiting any prolonged pain or suffering before death (this includes the life they live beforehand). Minimum being that it is unconscious and not able to feel pain or fear while being slaughtered. Just like there is a difference between burning yourself alive and blowing your brains out.
bums009 3 months ago
@bums009 You must first define what humane means. It means treated like a human, treated as you would want to be treated. I doubt that you would choose to be slaughtered.
islakay 3 months ago
@islakay Well actually I don't have to define anything, but I'll humour you. Humane does not mean necessarily to be treated as a human (try defining that), it just means to be treated with compassion in accordance to humanistic values. No, I would not choose to be slaughtered, but you seem to be assuming that humans and animals have the same capacity to make decisions and the same complexity of sentimental value that we place on life.
bums009 3 months ago
@bums009 "there is a difference between slaughtering an animal humanely and force feeding one until its liver is diseased"
Oh, please! The ducks don't mind in the least, and their livers are not diseased, they're "fattened". The ducks cheerfully come to the feeder. They like the deep-throat experience. Your gross exaggerations don't add to your credibility.
sagradamoly 3 months ago 15
@sagradamoly i would consider your point of view, but there are other videos out there stating otherwise. what about the ones that die in the process? what about the ones cramped in cages w minimal space for even the slightest movement, and having to stew in their own filth? im all for having happy healthy ducks being force-fed for the satisfaction of our tastebuds but id like to know none of them has to undergo any form of torture.
wednesdayblues88 3 months ago
@wednesdayblues88: "what about the ones cramped in cages w minimal space for even the slightest movement, and having to stew in their own filth?"
Nobody eats fowl that have been "stewing in their own filth" Those will be smelly, pus-rotten, diseased ducks. No chef wants to serve Bird Flu or Salmonella, so the only safe way raise eating ducks is to take tender loving care of them - all the way to the cooking pot.
sagradamoly 2 months ago
@sagradamoly *facepalm* A person or animal gets a fatty liver when it's diseased. The farmers make the duck's liver store fat faster than normal and their bodies struggle to deal with the extreme nutrient imbalance.
JDivinorumVideo 1 month ago
@JDivinorumVideo Ducks are not humans and they gorge themselves in the wild - learn something about how they exist... their migratory habits and how they need that extra stored "energy" for the long flight. They stuff themselves to the point that they can barely fly at all. Take your PETA lies out of my foie gras-loving face.
LairdDrambeg 1 month ago
@LairdDrambeg Sure ducks aren't humans but we are both animals. Everything I've read from scientiests says that ducks do not suffer from extreme nutrient imbalances in the wild. Also, what do you think happens to the female ducks? They throw them away because their livers aren't good for eating.
JDivinorumVideo 1 month ago
@JDivinorumVideo What is it that you do not understand here: ducks and humans have different physiology - they are fed the same grain-based product they gorge on in the wild. There is no nutrient imbalance - the swelling of the liver is a reversible process for storing energy and then using it when required just as it happens in the wild. Look - quit trying to sabotage the production of food which others like and choose to eat and we'll leave you alone to eat your vegan crap.
LairdDrambeg 1 month ago
@LairdDrambeg You're still overlooking the damage being done to the duck's oesophagus. You're also overlooking what they do to the female ducks that they can't harvest diseased livers from. In the wild, ducks get cues to eat more from nature. Force feeding them isn't part of their natural life-cycle and it causes them discomfort. Their liver is unable to clean their blood and remove toxins which affects other organs in a negative way.
JDivinorumVideo 1 month ago
@JDivinorumVideo A duck's esophagus is different from a human's and is much tougher - more like the palm of your hand - to withstand abrasion from fish fins and rough vegetation... and the tube is smooth, so no damage. "Cues from nature" (titter) and "discomfort" of a duck are pure imaginary fantasies obtained from projecting human physiology on to a duck - conjured up by PETA to bring in the bucks from fools like you.
LairdDrambeg 1 month ago
@LairdDrambeg No, cues from nature and discomfort aren't imaginary just because you think so. Can you provide me with any links that say that the ducks suffer no discomfort? All of the articles I've read say that the ducks suffer pain from this process, and they aren't PETA articles.
JDivinorumVideo 1 month ago
@JDivinorumVideo Just because an article is not associated with PETA directly, does not mean it is not written by a person who sympathizes with PETA. That means the article may be written by a biased author. Also, authors tend to enjoy money. Money, in stories like this, follow the line empathy. People are upset over the ducks and will become emotionally attached to an article that demonizes the behavior of farms, whether the ducks realy experience discomfort or not is not relevant to an author.
666NedFlanders 3 weeks ago
@sagradamoly If they like it so much, why do they have to be force fed? Why won't they just eat that much on their own?
ninjajesus81 1 month ago
@sagradamoly i believe we as human beings need to come up with a solution to care more about the fatty livers of Americans rather than ducks...I love USA dont get me wrong, but there are some serious weight issues in USA...
retrotw 4 weeks ago
@sagradamoly are you kidding me?!?!?!? one video and you are bought by the media?
are you that gullible?!?!
check this out for a change.
life is but a bed of roses!!
why dont you search "The Foie Gras Assembly Line"
darylhar1 1 week ago
They're tasty. who cares?
belliouse 4 months ago
Is this satire or what?
AimiriZ 4 months ago
This video is fucking bullshit. The reason the ducks' feathers look so weathered and abnormal is a direct result of stress.
Ignorance is bliss I guess.. fucking moronic humans.
philogos0 4 months ago 2
These ducks live in better conditions than most factory farmed pigs, cows and chickens. I used to have MAJOR reservations about eating fois gras, but in the last few years, I've become a convert; yum : )
arbutusviper1 4 months ago
It's not just extremists that think that this is a disgusting act.
snackpants 4 months ago 6
heh I can't afford this stuff let alone care about it
spuddles31 4 months ago
are those Geese's going to cure cancer or create a better version of the ipad?
MoonBHAA 4 months ago
If your species can't save this planet from an asteroid, I say that, that makes you fair game to any species that can.
Tommy9834 4 months ago
@Tommy9834 Sorry, the zombie apocalypse is going to come first...
rxheaven13b 4 months ago
@Tommy9834 how's that crack cocaine for ya? Lemme know when you save us from the next asteroid.
brs054 3 months ago
1. Tradition is a not a valid reason
2. Proof that the ducks will voluntarily get an enlarged/swollen liver by giving them a buffet of feed. I'm not sure if there ain't force feeding, the duck will eat themselves to death.
fi5hyfi5h 4 months ago
Duck's don't have gag reflexes and their esophogus contain no pain receptors. If you've ever seen a Crane or a pelican swallow a fish whole while the fish is still flipping in the bird's neck, you'd know they aren't exactly like us. and you can't make the jump that tube feeding is stressful for the bird.
savvysearch 4 months ago
Foie gras is nature's butter.
savvysearch 4 months ago
I feel bad for anyone who has never eaten Foie Gras. Its definately my #1 food
combo187 4 months ago
Quote "People actually believe that force feeding ducks is cruel".... does this guy even understand what he is talking about, he has no idea. Foie Gras production must stop !!!!!!!!!
jankaplan87 4 months ago
@jankaplan87 No but that expert seems to know a bit more then you do.
Tommy9834 4 months ago
A lot of other animals such as cows (especially for veal), chicken, turkeys,and lamb are treated the exact same. If you guys hate foie gras as much as you say you do, you should probably be a vegetarian or else it's wonderfully ironic.
XoXoSakuraKissXoXo 5 months ago
@XoXoSakuraKissXoXo Yes, other food animal industries have their problems too, and we all need to work together to demand more humane production practices. I'm not vegan, veterarian, or an extremist, but I do work for an organization that is attempting to put a stop to these practices in the most legal and transparent ways possible. I DO eat meat, but I choose humanely raised "SPCA Certified" products. Google it.
brs054 3 months ago
@brs054 man, you sound like everybody's eating PEOPLE! What confused nonsense. These are animals in case you didn't know. Animals are for eating. If you don't treat animals right, they taste bad. Is that so hard to understand?
sagradamoly 3 months ago
@sagradamoly Your attempt to anthropomorphize my comments is lame. What is happening in the foie gras industry is animal exploitation. A fatty duck liver is not essential to human health. It is a luxury that comes at the cost of animal exploitation. We need to respect what sustains human life and realize that when taken for granted and treated poorly, that sustenance will cease to exist. Is that so hard for YOU to understand? FYI: people are animals too, in case you didn't know.
brs054 3 months ago
@brs054 There's something wrong in your ethics. Animals are not our friends or our children - they're for eating. Eating animals is not exploitation, it's feeding ourselves. If we want to fatten the creatures up before eating them, so much the better. Notice that we have to treat them nicely in order to fatten them up. There's more animals on this planet than there ever have been, so there's definitely something cuckoo about your logic as well as your ethics.
sagradamoly 3 months ago
@sagradamoly Where are you getting this fluff? tra la la animals are our friends...weee! It is clear to me you have never worked in a barn before. You do not have to treat an animal nicely to make it fat. Put it in a bare concrete pen alone with all the food it can eat and watch what happens. I've had the misfortune of seeing that first hand. That IS exploitation. There are more animals on earth now b/c there are more people raising them to feed the growing population. It's not rocket science.
brs054 3 months ago
@brs054 "You do not have to treat an animal nicely to make it fat. "
Haha - that statement alone shows how clueless you are, city boy! People can be exploited, but animals aren't people. They're for eating.
sagradamoly 3 months ago
@sagradamoly Don't quit your day job. 1.) I'm a female, not a "city boy". 2.) I grew up on a farm on the prairies 3.) I spent over a decade working on different livestock farms - pigs, sheep, dairy cows, poultry 4.) I have a B.Sc. in Agriculture - Animal Science to be exact 5.) I worked on a farm to earn my M.Sc. in farm animal behaviour and have published in scientific journals - I know how mistreatment leads to stress 6.) look up "exploit" in the dictionary, you are unclear on what it means.
brs054 3 months ago
retard is interviewing people that have the biggest stake in Foie gras ever!!
PolitischeTier 5 months ago
@PolitischeTier
Bleeding heart fuckwad commenting on a video who fanatically loves animals probably to the point that he'd probably enjoy fucking them.
TheAntiV 5 months ago
@TheAntiV
thats why they are called animal lovers, they make love to animals
abdulbade 4 months ago
Studies have been done showing that Africans live in more stress in Africa than as slaves in America, it is therefore alright to have slavery.
PolitischeTier 5 months ago
Is this for real? I mean, seriously...
Anthropophagism 5 months ago
Foie gras is not everyday food; it is expensive and luxury. And off course there are also black sheep of farmers.
But I think the whole [PETA] activism is totally wrong.
We are eating animals and the human race is that big, that it is not enough to rely on few wild birds... and farming creates problems; environmental as they are not always "humane".
Though if humans losing their culinary culture, what leaves behind?
Who tried fake meat already? Taste very very wrong!
Dominikmj 5 months ago
I'm sold. I'm gonna eat foie gras whenever I get the chance.
NobbyKNobbs 5 months ago
What a bunch of b*llshit! like anybody believes this. Lets ask the experts out of FRANCE, those are exactly the people who produce foie gras. Offcourse they agree with him! This slaughter must stop!!
rbergman1979 5 months ago
BOURDAIN IS SUCH A DOUCHE!!!! NUMEROUS COUNTRIES HAVE BANNED THE PRACTICE!!! YEAH, IT'S ALL FUCKING DISNEY, EH BOURDAIN?!!!!
mrbuster1964 5 months ago
fucking idiot!!!!!!!!!!!!!
DarkCherry88 5 months ago
I hate this man with all my heart
Gethazzor3 5 months ago
check2wice is telling you guys to check twice about foie gras
check2wice 5 months ago
Foe Gras is divine and those ducks are treated like babies because if you dont then it'll taste like shit.
boardertotheline 5 months ago 2
@boardertotheline
However well treated that may be they, an enlarged, swollen liver which is incapable of doing what it's supposed to do causes a great deal of pain.
1997xander 4 months ago
I have to admit i went into watching this video feeling that it was cruel and unusual.......but I have to say I don't feel the same anymore.
sourboy31 5 months ago 2
Everyone has to remember that foie gras farms are the SAME as any other type of farm: there are good, and there are bad. As long as we promote the people who give-a-shit (organic, humane, etc) by buying their product, there is nothing to be ashamed of when enjoying foie gras, as well as any other meat, dairy, etc.
aujeimune 5 months ago
Um, it's not only vegans who think foie gras is inhumane. And caring about animals doesn't make you an extremist crazy activist. Good grief.
Let's see....ask owners of a foie gras company and foie gras enthusiasts if its production is cruel. What do you think they're going to say??
thermoregulator 5 months ago
@thermoregulator Dude, I don't like foie gras and I don't think it cruel. =/
LadyLatias 5 months ago
Long live Bourdain
dingbatbanana 5 months ago
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RedJohnO22 5 months ago
Nice pond in the back--that the ducks never see!
HeidiWaukechon 5 months ago
Yes while I believe that not all farms are this gentle we must make a push to have them raised to the standard set by these people.
vilmanation 5 months ago
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I'd like to force-feed Anthony Bourdain my shit, and I don't give a shit about animals. I just think he's a big tool.
lemonrind 5 months ago
Not all Fois Gras is produced this way, many have the ducks in small individual cages to limit their movement. Regardless, even this farm is far from ideal. Ducks would prefer to be next to a pond, foraging for their food (they like bugs, slugs, etc.). People who like Fois Gras will justify this no matter what, but it should be stopped, we can live without it.
Miss65boo 6 months ago
@Miss65boo Now that's when I do think that the production of foie gras is bad, but that kind of treatment towards animals is done in nearly ANY sort of animal agriculture. Caged Chickens, the 'slots' used by pigs and cows where they literally just stand there and eat out of one end and crap out of the other.
Banning foie gras doesn't change the fact that OTHER animals are still treated like this, rather than ban it, why don't they pass laws to ensure good treatment of ANY animal.
LadyLatias 5 months ago
Regardless of the fuction of their throats, being force-fed is a stressful experience for any animal. The Dr claimed that a goose's liver stores more fat than a mammal, which is true, but not until the point where it gets diseased, which he gave no comment. Why didn't he comment on the fact the mortality rate is higher than in other industries and the fractures on the throats of many birds who have been examined? No scenes of the bird's condition right before slaughter either!
ooOooHeatherooOoo 6 months ago
If you're trying to expel the myth that an industry is not cruel, you don't need to generalise those who are concerned about it, because you already have evidence to reply on. Instead we get rosy pictures of the dish, an unnecessary history, depictions of over-crowded birds with a voice over saying, "Look how happy they are!" and some 'not so skillful' editing of birds craning through the cage bars, making it look as though they're fighting to get to the tube. Hmm, funny. They weren't on 2:25!
ooOooHeatherooOoo 6 months ago
Anthony Bourdain's the man.
BijanTab 6 months ago 3
Ppl gotta chill about foie gras, if you don't like it, don't eat it
but FUCK YOU AND FUCK HER TOO if you think you're gonna stop other people from eating it
klu501 6 months ago
I love goose foie gras
thesouthga 6 months ago
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@Dealow12 Lol, fight me.
ErictheGreat 6 months ago
So...after watching this, realizing the ducks ARE slammed together in tiny cages, living their short lives out hardly seeing the sun and are still force fed every day regardless of how tough their throats are, I'm supposed to be okay with this? I hope your families die.
ErictheGreat 6 months ago
@ErictheGreat dude, they're ducks... hoping that someone's families die simply establishes you as a fucked up cunt that probably idolizes extremist anti-foie gras terrorism.
klu501 6 months ago 11
HAHAHAHHA!!! oh.. i thought this was a joke. There are so many things wrong with this video, I don't know what to say. Anthony Bourdain, I didn't watch you in the first place, and now I'll never watch you, you can go fuck yourself and your bullshit propaganda. - It's like watching a trial where the plaintiff has no proof and a bunch of paid experts to tell us morons the difference between mammals and birds..
contrasvoid 6 months ago
This video does not show that the ducks are resisting the force-feeding, and it claims that the ducks are happy, what's wrong.
Vegans aren't extremists!
Fois Gras is cruelty to animals.
natija08 6 months ago
@natija08 ...Okay, let's ban the pork, the beef and the egg industries then. THEY ARE TREATED THE EXACT SAME WAY IN MAJORITY OF AGRICULTURE BUSINESS.
Instead of bitching about how one animal is being treated, why don't you work towards ensuring the good treatment of all animals?
LadyLatias 5 months ago 5
@LadyLatias
I'm with you to ban the beef and the egg industries too.
A good treatment of all animals is, not to use them.
Visit my channel and you will see, that I speak out for all the speachless of the world.
natija08 5 months ago
@natija08 I wasn't being serious, you twit. I support the natural process of killing animals for food, but I follow French belief that the animal should be treated respectfully while it is alive.
LadyLatias 3 months ago
@LadyLatias
I support NO killing of humans or animals - not for food and not for other purposes.
Is it respectful to force feed an animal?
France is the country which "produces" the most foie gras of the world!
If you look at the law, force feeding is cruelty to animals. But the French Government declared foie gras as a "cultural tradition". It's so evil to do this.
And the reason is: greed!
natija08 3 months ago
@natija08 I would first like to point out that it's natural to kill other animals for food. Until you can convince a lion to eat tofu without it dieing of hunger, I'm sticking by this.
I don't think the ducks care either way if they're being force fed or not, why should we? Their livers are designed for this, and research has proven ducks will overeat large amounts anyway to prepare when migrating, I fail to see the problem.
LadyLatias 3 months ago
@LadyLatias
Look, we are humans, aren't we? We can DECIDE what to eat - animals can't.
You may ask me, why we shouldn't eat animals.
I give you a simple answer: Because they suffer. Animals feel pain and fear as we do. We shouldn't torture them, because we can live a good life, perhaps a better life, without eating meat and other animal products.
If it would be true that ducks eat as much as they can and produce a fatty liver by themselves - why than forcefeed them?
natija08 3 months ago
@natija08 ...That's seriously your answer? We shouldn't eat them because we're BETTER than them? Even for a vegan, that's the most ARROGANT excuse I've ever heard. I fully support people who want to be vegetarians because they simply don't like the taste of meat or want to be healthier, that's fine to me, but come on.
And because a duck has this psychologically imprinted into their brain when to store fat. And if they're not flying south, why store fat? I don't think the ducks care either way.
LadyLatias 3 months ago
@LadyLatias
Häh?
Where did I see, we shouldn't eat animals because we are better? I said we shouldn't eat them, because they SUFFER pain and fear in our cages and slaughterhouses.
You don't THINK the duck cares?
Let's make an experiment: You offer the duck two possibilities: a cage with force feeding and a meadow with a pond. If the duck chooses the cage - you are right.
natija08 3 months ago
@natija08 You're suggesting it. And news flash, do you think animals in the wild don't suffer pain or stress? No, the lion is not going to give two hoots if the antelope is numbed by pain when it rips the flesh off it's bones. It's nature.
I don't support the use of slot pigs/cows or caged hens, I will give you that, the stress gives bad flavour to the meat and products. But under ethical treatment, animals are less stressed than they would be in the wild.
LadyLatias 3 months ago
@natija08 And slaughterhouses, in theory, are supposed to be quicker and more painless than what they would suffer in the wild. Any slaughterhouse that doen't, such as what Mayalsian slaughterhouses were doing to Australian cattle, I'd happily burn to the ground.
And I'm saying I don't think ducks have the brain capacity to care if their force fed or not, it isn't as if it's painful or dangerous. I also NEVER said I support caged force feeding.
LadyLatias 3 months ago