Dan Barber: A surprising parable of foie gras

http://www.ted.com At the Taste3 conference, chef Dan Barber tells the story of a small farm in Spain that has found a humane way to produce foie gras. Raising his geese in a natural environment, farmer Eduardo Sousa embodies the kind of food production Barber believes in.

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[Ebvardh]

It hardly classifies as cruel.

Cruel means to cause pain or suffering without feeling concern about those you're hurting.

Making sure an animal lives the best life possible before you kill it is hardly a lack of concern.

[knottytrevor]

FOIE.

[samala51]

Far from cruel...

[cyberdemon107]

I hate to break it to you, but every animal that ever lived, died. And every animal alive now (even you) will die. And in 99.999% of the cases, they die when they don't want to.

QED

[Nick Michal]

meh

[FuzzFace80]

What a pathetically ignorant human being you are.

[Andrew Tejano]

this was uploaded more than 4 years ago.

[richardhod2]

Here was are, December 2011 this American Life. radio-archives/episode/452/pou­ltry-slam-2011

[richardhod2]

This was on "This American Life" last year. This is how he heard about it.

[soon2bLt]

Who gives a shit if it's humane or not, it tastes amazing!!

[JKayification]

When the geese topple our human regime and institute a brutal avian autocracy, only a few chefs will survive the initial carnage.

[WhatInTarnationn]

chefs aren't supposed to be fat