Goose fat is usually available from the Joie de Vivre this mail order company: http://www.frenchselections.com/ I got some this winter and remembered to cook with some of it last night after all this discussion about geese.

Not that anyone cares, but I'd rather have stuffed squash blossoms whether they are stuffed with truffles at a posh place or a simple countryside resto with their own ingredients

Let me see ... It's awful to force feed a duck for its liver but it's OK to eat an unfattened duck even though to eat it someone has to kill it?

Myself, I avoid vegetables. Those poor plants have to watch as we cut them off at their very roots, or rip off their fruiting organs, or tear their leaves off! And then we plung the still living plant flesh into BOILING WATER for goshsakes!!! Don't you know that the carrot could be replanted to grow a lovely flower head? Oh! The humanity!

We must all become carnivores!

poor PJ, we all have our cross to bear. :)

12 January, 2004: "Hungary foie gras farms under threat"

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/3346185.stm

Several years ago, an expert group of vets, commissioned by the Council of Europe, defined force-feeding as an inherently cruel activity, but stopped short of calling for its abolition.

Poland, Denmark, Germany and Norway have banned the activity, but still import the finished product. Founder EU member France and new member Hungary, due to join in May 2004, have been given 15 years to abolish force-feeding.

In Israel, the third biggest world producer after Hungary and France, the Supreme Court ruled last summer that it should be banned, but gave producers until 2005 to find a "gentler" method of fattening geese.

We regularly feed both ducks and geese and I find it hard to believe that given the chance they wouldn't overstuff themselves without any help.

Kismetcherima - thank you.

To Capo,

Thank you very much for the informations..it was Interesting..:)
ciao,
AnnaMaria

For madison..:):):)

Underhill...in nature that is exactly what they do before migration. They..ducks and geese ..overfeed themselves and enlarge their livers for the flight. Maybe there would be a market for naturally fat livers! Lord I can't imagine what that would cost.

Actually I don't care for it , either as pate or entier mi-cuit conserve en bocal.