Three western delicacies: foie gras, truffles, caviar! The most controversial is the French foie gras! In French: foie refers to the liver, gras means "fat, fat", so foie gras is actually "fat liver". Duck liver, foie gras both became foie gras.
In fact, 96% of the world's French foie gras is used duck liver, mainly because ducks and geese are fed in the same way, duck liver and foie gras taste similar, but ducks reproduce faster and lay more eggs, which means that the labor cost of raising geese is higher, so most of the foie gras is replaced by duck liver!
More than 2000 YEARS BC, the ancient Egyptians discovered that the geese and ducks of the Nile would eat and hoard fat in large quantities before migration, thus forming a fatty liver and a fat taste! So began the artificial feeding!
Later spread to the Roman Empire and carried it forward! In the 18th century, King Louis 16 of France called foie gras the national dish, which swept the entire French high society, and today, French foie gras has become a representative of French cuisine!
The biggest controversy of this dish is the feeding process, in order to get a fat fatty liver, it is necessary to insert a metal tube directly into the stomach of the duck and goose, mechanically feed it, and keep them in a narrow cage to prevent them from moving. This way you can feed the foie gras to 10 times the size!
But because it is too cruel, animal protection associations continue to resist, many countries have banned the production of foie gras, including India, Germany, Argentina and some states in the United States, and India is the only country in the world that bans the consumption of foie gras!
In fact, China's famous food Beijing roast duck uses a similar feeding method to this, and scientists are also trying to find ways to get fat ducks through artificial breeding, so as to abandon this cruel feeding method!