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Foie Gras is one of the many products in the culinary world that are being banned to the American people. Foie Gras is French for “enlarged liver” which was being used heavily is some culinary dishes from duck liver. The main issue in this was how they were getting the enlarged duck livers. The “Animal Protection and Rescue League” started protesting as soon as they got wind of this “crime”. They marched down the streets of California and protested with signs about how they stuff metal tubes down duck throats to shovel food into their body to get an enlarged liver on the farms. They stated how it’s was animal cruelty and needed to be stopped. This was their main perspective in the story. They twisted and manipulated the evidence to make the companies look evil and show the uneducated American people of this subject. These caused great uproar in the communities and cause a ban in the production of this.

On the other side of the controversy, the producers of the enlarged liver stated how the ducks do not have a gag reflex and it was not cruel punishment for the animals. Even with science to back it up, they did not get many followers. They stated how these are not used on humans, and it’s animals with no gag reflex or problem. They are knocked unconscious before being hacked up. They state how it is nice for the average culinary chef, because it produces a nice and easy product that can be bought cheap for how much there is.

Even with all of these perspectives on the issue, the court system sided with a ban against producing anymore of the Foie Gras.

http://www.utsandiego.com/news/2012/jun/23/foie-gras-long-controversial-road-food-ban/