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Default Force feeding ducks and geese


"Portland" > wrote in message
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>I was watching the food network yesterday. They showed a farm in
> Quebec where they raise and also force feed ducks. It's kind of neat,
> and a little gross. They make a mixture of corn meal and water, then
> hook this feed up to a type of gun. I think this gun has a trigger
> mechanism, and a long tube. The fowl gets this gun pushed down it's
> throat and the trigger is squeezed releasing the feed.
> I thought this practice was outlawed in Canada. I guess not.
>
>

Interesting! They must be making fois gras. I haven't heard that word since
the last trip to France. Did they give a product name where one can find it?
It does great things to your cholesterol levels.

Kent