A July 28 image of packaged foie gras at a store in Venice. California has banned sales of foie gras since 2012. (Noah Haggerty / Los Angeles Times) Despite California's ban on foie gras, the ...

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Researchers wondered if there was a more ethical way to enjoy foie gras, so they created a process to replicate the dish without force-feeding ducks and geese beyond their normal diets. They treated ...

Foie gras could be on the menu for DC voters next year. An animal welfare group called Pro-Animal Future is attempting to get an initiative on the ballot next November that would ban the sale of the ...

The golden, buttery delicacy known as foie gras sits at the heart of one of the food world’s most heated debates. This controversial French dish – made from the fattened liver of ducks or geese – has ...

Free food at a fancy restaurant sounds like a win (especially when it's sent out by the chef), until you realize you have no interest in eating what's ...

The French delicacy foie gras could be made more ethically thanks to a technique that replicates the way fats are metabolised in force-fed birds, although the process still depends on farmed animals.

A successful citywide campaign to remove foie gras (fattened duck or goose liver) from local restaurant menus is increasingly garnering attention. Earlier this week, Jacqueline Bonanno, the co-owner ...

While not sparing the lives of ducks and geese, the technique lets the birds eat and grow normally. By Ari Daniel Thomas Vilgis, a food physicist at the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research in ...

Foie gras, which is made by force-feeding ducks and geese, was seen on the shelves of Wild Fork Foods stores in Venice, Manhattan Beach and Westlake Village this week despite a state ban. Wild Fork ...

WASHINGTON, March 25, 2025 — Foie gras is a unique delicacy made from the liver of a duck or goose. While it can be an acquired taste, the buttery, fatty dish is an indulgent cuisine prized in many ...