Reply #26: What is your basis for deciding what's natural?

[jgraz]

If the ducks and geese didn't have the natural capacity to gorge and enlarge their livers, they would simply die from the overfeeding. The fact is that far more suffering goes on in industrial slaughterhouses and feedlots than ever occurs at one of these small foie gras farms.

Trust me, the commercial meat industry LOVES the focus on foie gras. I have an acquaintance in Chicago who works for the meat board, and the beef and pork producers couldn't be happier with the ban. For them, it means full speed ahead on all the really horrible stuff.