Even 007 Turns His Nose Up to Foie Gras
Imagine having to live in a room so small that you wouldn’t have enough space to stretch out your arms or legs. Imagine being endlessly kept in that same room, never being able to go for a walk or to a party or enjoy any of the other social activities that we all take for granted. Imagine that, every day, someone came along with a pipe that they force down your throat and into your stomach, force-feeding you 45lbs of pasta – every day. And imagine that this treatment carries on until you are eventually allowed out of your small room to be slaughtered simply for the pleasure of other peoples’ palettes…
Welcome to the world of ducks and geese that are mistreated and tortured inside foie gras factories all over the world.
In these factories, ducks and geese are crammed into small cages with no access to fresh air or water and with no means of exercise whatsoever. They can’t even spread their wings. Heartbreaking. Worst of all, these poor birds are forcibly fed corn boiled with fat, daily amounts that are far higher than the birds would otherwise eat naturally. The purpose of this over-feeding is to damage and cause disease to the liver, causing it to swell up to ten times the size of a healthy liver. The diseased liver is then sold on as foie gras – but not before the poor birds are overfed and tortured for one whole month and then hanged upside-down to have their throats cut. The poor duck or goose slowly bleeds to death, all for the sake of the demand for the “delicacy” that is sold in restaurants.
The video shown below details the horrific existence that ducks and geese in foie gras factories have to endure. Please watch and see for yourself how gruesome and vile the mistreatment really is. Although action has been taken in some countries and American states to ban the practice of foie gras production, there are still countless birds who continue to suffer this awful fate all over the world.
Ducks and geese, like any other living being, desire only peace and happiness and to be able to live in their own environment without disturbance. They are magnificent, graceful and intelligent beings who provide so much beauty and wonder within nature. To see these poor beings mistreated and suffering in this way is beyond words. Nothing can describe such barbaric practice nor can such practice ever be justified.
Celebrities who speak up have courage, use their fame for the good of others and definitely earn my respects. Thank you Mr Roger Moore for what you are doing….thank you so much.
So please watch and share the video and help to raise awareness of this dire situation in the hope that we can be a part of further bans and the eventual complete cessation of foie gras factory production. Never eat foi gras…be kind to animals no matter what animals they are and no matter who you are….start now…don’t eat meat.
Tsem Rinpoche
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Its heartfelt to watch the video, seeing how those poor goose who cannot defence themselves were treated. Its wonderful to know that even 007 trying to bring awareness of cruelty to those animals. Foie gras is considered a gourmet delicacy product made of the liver of a duck or goose that has been especially fattened. To produce the delicacy farm workers ram pipes down to the throats of ducks or goose which is called force-feeding. It is essentially a form of force-feeding, which is seen as a animal cruelty that goes beyond, raising them and to be slaughtered for food. Very cruel indeed . The gourmet delicacy foie gras has long been a controversial matter due to the abuse and cruelty . Glad to know that foie-gras production is banned in several countries, such as, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Italy, Luxembourg, Norway, Poland, Turkey and the UK.
Roger Moore using his fame as a famous actor bringing awareness for what farm workers are doing to the rest of world. Go meatless or go on vegetarian is the best choice not to hurt animals. (Be kind to animals no matter what animals they are and no matter who you are…)…quoted.
Thank you Rinpoche for this sharing.
Foie Gras is a very special and expensive delicacy in French cuisine. Many people are willing to pay a high price to taste it. But the way Foie Gras is obtained is really disgusting.
Foie Gras is the fatty liver of a goose. In order to make the goose develops a fatty liver, it has to be forced feed. A pipe tube is pushed down to the goose’s throat to force feed it. Can you imagine yourself to be forced feed? Having a pipe pushed down to your throat and food just go straight to your stomach? It is awful, isn’t it? It is the for the goose too. It is suffering.
If fatty liver is not a healthy sign for human beings, it will be the same for the goose too! The liver itself might be full of toxins but it becomes a delicacy, why do we want to stuff ourselves with toxins? Animals have feelings and emotions too, we have to stop creating suffering to them, stop eating meat and opt for a healthier vegetarian diet.
I think that out of so many types of foods, one of the most inhumane ones is Foie Gras. Its made up of geese livers, how disgusting is that? Are we really that out of food until we have to consume intestines? I have never tried and will never try it, just the thought of eating it makes me sick. Geese are such beautiful and pure animals and yet they have to face the ‘man-made fate’ of getting their feathers plucked and stomachs cut open.
This is so scary. I have never ate a foie gras before and will never try it, it’s so disgusting! I really cannot imagine myself crammed up with hundreds and thousands of people, it’s definitely not a good feeling. I hope more people will stop consuming them.
Thank You for sharing Rinpoche.
Love, beatrix.
this is good that Roger Moore says no to foie gras. this is absolutely horrible that they torture them make them overfed so that they get more money, and then they kill them. be a vegetarian now and say no to foie gras!!!!
Its terrible the method they used to faten up the duck. I couldn’t imagine the pain that the animals are in. And they also get no freedom. They cannot even walk around or even stretch out their wings. They need to be free. And i agree with what Rinpoche has said, dont eat meat. Be vegetarian.
I’ve personally not tried it before and I didn’t know they have to go through so much pain and torture to have it on our table as delicacy. How wrong! When I 1st saw my friend eating it, I was like why would someone want to eat the liver of an animal. Isn’t it unhealthy? Now I know and I will advise my friends not to eat it.
Looking at this, i feel bad on purposely went to try foie gras when i visited Paris earlier. I will not take it again.
You know, being in Samsara, you tend to follow what society thinks is good because you want to be just like the rest. And you think it is right. From that, you gain your confidence, your face, your ego.
I was just like you, well most of you. The first time I had Foie Gras, I didn’t know what it was, I just blindly followed and ate it, because it was “expensive” and “exclusive”. So I felt posh eating it, at a high-class restaurant. It tasted fatty, nothing I particulary fancied, but I ate it anyway. My first time, second time then third and so on.
Anyways I found out what it was after my first time. I was told it was goose liver, and just like all the other meat that has landed on my plate, I never thought too much about it – “oh,okay” was my immediate reply.
It was not long after that Jean Mei shared the video with me, first, animal cruelty videos here and there, then Earthlings. It was to my horror how I remained oblivious to how these animals were tortured and suffered for our palates alone. It was a choice I made that throughout my life, I never cared to look and explore further how the non-vegatarian dishes ended up on my dining plate. Yes, selfishness lingers within and around us.
Now everytime I see foie gras, I just feel like throwing up, because I imagine their little bodies being stuffed down with a tube and the sufferings the poor little goose/duck had to endure. Also, the diseased liver looked gross!! Yuck!
Thank you for this video and strong reminder, Rinpoche.
Love,
Camen
Hey carmen, I like what you said about eating foie gras (and other foods like it) only because we’re told that this is something special, “expensive and exclusive” and that therefore it must be good. Unlike you, I did actually really like it when I used to eat it. I mean, there is one type of meat that all of us particularly like – be it chicken, pork, lamb, foie gras, pate etc etc.. But then, you see what goes into making these “exclusive” dishes available to us and you wonder if it’s really worth it? I don’t think so.
Knowing what goes into making foie gras, you realize the irony that the very reason it is so expensive is because so much money, time, effort and resources have to go into fattening up the geese in this way. Isn’t that twisted? That we we spend money to torture these animals, and then we pay just as much money to eat the product that comes out of these tortured animals. What a sick society we have become!
Surely there are plenty of other things we could be eating!! Of all the culinary options, do we have to pick the ones that inflict the most suffering? It doesn’t make sense to me and seems completely contradictory to the fact that humans are supposed to be the most rational animals on the planet. Our behaviours towards other beings that share our same planet are completely contradictory to this.
Animals deserve for love same as others. They do no harm to us but we human keep hurting and harming them just for our taste bud. Imagine if we are the animals in the same situation, how do we feel? We should be vegetarian from now on.
I remember back in the day when I were an animal eater I actually liked the taste of pate, and the different blends found in the gourmet section of the supermarket.
Then when I worked in the restaurant I would see the head chef working his culinary magic on the hotplate. Searing the livers and kidneys to make dishes out of the offal of animals.
Though I stopped eating meat before I had a chance to foie gras the visuals above really stop and make you think. Pate made from chicken liver is just as bad if not worse as how many chickens have to be killed to get a substantial amount of liver from them?
Whereas above is just as cruel, how long can you keep a goose allive until you have enlarged its organs to a size ripe for killing.
Alot of suffering and killing to satisfy ones stomach and tastebuds. Hidden amongst the tantilising flavours of seasoning and searing.
I used to love Foie Gras a long time ago until when I was met a friend in Paris who told me how they force feed the duck/geese and she recommended me to watch the documentary on youtube. I immediately stop eating Foie Gras from then on as it was so painful to watch. And like what Rinpoche said in many occasion “why eat meat still if you find these type of documentaries too painful or frightening to watch?”
Sometimes we are ignorant about where our meat come from, and sometimes, we just choose to pretend not to know how and where they come from.
Thank you for posting articles like this. When we know how our meat come from, we can’t say we don’t know anymore. The more people know about it, the more people will stop eating foie gras, and I sincerely hope that this food will come to an end soon.
I think if people had to make their own foie gras most of them will give it up eventually. One of the things rinpoche teaches is that we should always put ourselves in other people’s shoes in this case we should put ourselves as the duck or geese. Can’t we appreciate it is pure suffering as an animal bred just for the palettes of human beings.
Thank you james bond for giving a voice to those who can’t voice out their opinions.
Glad you posted it!