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I think that the question that this article is trying to answer is not whether it is ethical to produce foie gras, but whether it is less ethical than producing
by 8_hours_ago 12y ago
I think that the question that this article is trying to answer is not whether it is ethical to produce foie gras, but whether it is less ethical than producing other farm animals. Only the 4th point you made is specific to the production of foie gras, and I believe that the article argued fairly well that force feeding is not painful for the ducks.
Whether eating farm-raised meat is ethical or not is another topic all together, which this article doesn't touch on.
- stolio 12y agoI don't believe there's a comparison to be made between foie farms and traditional farms because they exist for different reasons, one for luxury and the other for utility. The reasons things are done matter: if you shoot somebody for pleasure the punishments are very different than if you shoot them out of some type of fear or necessity.
- sukilot 12y ago90+% of industrialized-world animal-farming is for luxury consumption far in excess of biological need for a healthy life.
- Ntrails 12y agoYou simply cannot make such a distinction in any meaningful fashion. As a civilisation we've attempted to make food a pleasure at every opportunity, even when constrained by scarcity or ethics. Foie gras is inefficient on every possible food production for energy/resource metric. So is Beef. Foie Gras is seen as a luxury product. So is steak. Comparing them is completely logical imo.