🔴 Foie gras produced by force-feeding is immensely cruel and controversial. Production of this so-called ‘delicacy’ causes unimaginable suffering to millions of birds each year. The process of force-feeding - known as ‘gavage’ - involves shoving a feeding tube down the duck or goose's throat to fatten them up 💔🦆 This ruthless process causes the birds’ livers to swell to ten times their natural size. The animal’s diseased liver is then sold and marketed as foie gras. ❌ Because of its cruelty,

Chefs see it as a culinary necessity. Activists see it as the product of torture. Farmers see it as their livelihood. How did foie gras become such a contested dish? EDITOR'S NOTE: In a previous version of this video, farmer Marcus Henley said the ducklings "double in weight every day for about twenty days," but in fact the ducklings double in weight roughly every three days. A previous version of this video also excluded the Sinai Peninsula from a map of Egypt. We corrected the map to include t