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In case you haven’t seen the cover in your neck of the woods (thank you Clustrmap.com!) The Village Voice gave prime real estate to foie gras production in the Hudson Valley. I think its spot on. Please read it here and discuss. Here’s what I wrote to the article’s author: Dear Sarah, I am a student [...] No comments yet to A Great Article on Foie GrasMark & I are antsy for spring. We’ve got all of our seed catalogues and spend evenings pouring over heirloom herbs and vegetables to soon be planted in our backyard. Until the 50 degree days are here to stay (and turn into 70, 80, 90 degree days after that) we’ve been working hard to keep [...] Yesterday, I went with Mark to the Northeastern Organic Farmer’s Association (NOFA) annual meeting at Rutgers in New Brunswick, NJ. I wasn’t going to go. I love farmer’s as much as the next foodie, but I had a perfectly good Saturday to stay home and read/knit/sleep/cook/eat/whatever. I realized though that Mark would be taking the [...] No comments yet to Hanging Out With Farmers
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I am so glad you are discussing these issues. I think some foie gras producers are more humane than others. And I think the methods for producing foie gras are become more and more humane, check out a producer in Spain, where they don’t force feed them at all. They do it by the seasons, the ducks fatten themselves right before winter. Pretty awesome. I will check out this article.