Well, mama is reading this book about a little town in the Perigord where one of the specialties is foie gras and lots of small producers make what, according to the book, is found on 2/3rds of French tables at one time or another, and so mama started looking up ethical foie gras producers and found that in Spain, there is an ethical raiser of geese who is essentially green, meaning that his geese run free and actually stuff themselves with no help from anyone else when the season for migration begins and so the fattened geese are sold for food and their livers are made into the French delicacy, foie gras.
Now maybe you have stopped reading already, but I thought it was important to know that not all foie gras is the product of force-feeding the birds and that according to this goose-raiser, foie gras was only eaten in his home at Christmas when the geese had taken care of their own livers in their own way.
Just a little food for thought…not an opinion.
And what’s good for the goose may not be entirely understood by animal rights’ advocates.
You decide.
It just occurred to me that chicken livers get bigger when chickens are raised on farms that feed chickens to make them fat for market. Certainly free-range chickens are better for everyone, but they eat alot
Well who’da thunk it! Thank you Loulou, we didn’t know there was such a thing as ethical Fois Gras. This farmer needs some PR to spread the word to the unethical producers!
Luff
Mungo & Jet
Mama still has trouble eating any of it, even though even I know that it’s really good…I had a little piece once. Heavenly…
Still, mama says a nice piece of Brie makes her happy enough.
Mom says raising animals for food is a complicated issue. It’s good to know there are ethical producers of foie gras. It is sad when animals are mistreated for any reason.
All of it is so complicatedbut food tastes are complicated.