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Article: Foie Gras isn't funny.(LETTERS FROM OUR READERS)(Letter to the Editor)
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- Sunset
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- May 1, 2005
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As a California licensed veterinary technician and former zookeeper at the Los Angeles Zoo, I read "Seriously Funny Food" (Best of the West, March, page 24) with dismay. The dish Tuna Foie Gras Melt is not funny food if you know anything about foie gras (literally "fatty liver"), which is marketed as a gourmet delicacy.
It is possible to humanely raise and slaughter a variety of food animals, including free-range poultry and beef cattle. It is not possible to humanely produce foie gras because it is derived from the grossly enlarged and diseased livers of ducks or geese that have been confined and force-fed massive ...