California foie gras producer Tom Brock is now using a soft, rubber force-feeding tube to fatten his geeses' livers, according to Juliet Glass in today's New York Times. A Serious Eats prediction: This kinder, gentler force-feeding tube will not placate the Humane Society's anti–foie gras animal-rights activists in the slightest. It turns out that what's good for the geese is bad for the gourmand.
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