The facts about foie gras won’t upset your stomach

IN response to Gerry Boland’s letter (Dec 8) entitled “Scandalous food practice turns my stomach“, while I do not want to enter a much-heated debate, usually fanned by extremist animal right campaigners (who are usually also followed by more sensible people), I would nonetheless like to clarify a few points.

Mr Boland seems to ignore a fundamental fact: ducks and geese oesophageal tract and liver working is highly different from humans’ and other mammals’ ones. This is one reason the force-feeding practice is more adapted to these animals than to cattle for example.

And this is a reason why it has been discovered a few thousand years ago in Egypt — this delicacy is nothing new.