I have hunted most of my life and still fish. I'm rural and understand that pork and beef does not grow on grocery store shelves and often shake my head at the animal rights crowd. I am a meat eater!
But apparently California banned force feeding geese and ducks in order to make a snobby dish I cannot pronounce but have long heard of. If memory serves, they give the bird a fatty liver to make the liver taste better.
Anyway, it's ridiculous and always has been, I quit eating Veal for similar reasons.
When a true farmer raises an animal for food it does not involve the equivalent of torture or a miserable existence.
Apparently, California banned the practice over a decade ago and the "farmers" can't seem to get over it. Their third challenge was declined by state SC.
What do you think?
You’re talking about this “force feeding” being akin to torture. I’d have to see just what that force feeding consists of. I’d have to see the conditions these animals are being raised under.
When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.“ - Benjamin Franklin.
I've never had it that I know of. I'd give it a try, and judge from there.
My DO NOT EAT list is fairly short, from what I have tried. Lima beans are at the top of the list, along with store bought liver, scungilli and calamari.
I hate lima beans. Calamari is great. I try to avoid the breaded version.