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Discover LudwigThe word "gavage" is a correct and usable word in written English
It is typically used to refer to the process of force-feeding an animal, most often through a tube inserted through its mouth or nose into the stomach. Example sentence: The veterinarian was forced to administer gavage to the ailing goose to ensure it received enough food and nutrition.
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gavage
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A process of force-feeding a goose for foie gras
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E-mail address GO SIGN UP Share Tweet I asked the Gonzalezes if foie gras without gavage would be possible.
Given that, the new owners of the farm where the Gonzalezes rent are probably unlikely to replace the gavage pens with battery cages, since they'll soon be illegal in California).
The process, which they call gavage, takes two to three weeks and expands a bird's liver to around ten times its natural size.
(About that earlier post: Pease wrote me an e-mail refuting what Guillermo Gonzalez, the proprietor of Sonoma-Artisan, said about the activists ignoring the battery-style chicken cages and focussing only on gavage.
I asked the Gonzalezes if foie gras without gavage would be possible.
We are also featuring a tasting gavage, in which every appetizer on the menu is wheeled to your table and forced down the gullets of two to four people.
He tells his readers that, all around the world, governments previously hospitable to foie gras — Israel (the world's third-largest producer), Hungary (its second), and even France itself (No. 1) — have charged the foie-gras-sie with finding a way to fatten the livers without what the French call le gavage.
For the past month or so, the human gavage has been on, with foie dinners, like the one I wrote about earlier this week, being held across the state.
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Black-and-white ducks — male Pekin-Muscovy mules — pecked at the water, as workers broke down wooden structures previously used to protect the birds during the "pre-gavage," two months of outdoor, free-range binge-training to stretch the esophagus.
Black-and-white ducks male Pekin-Muscovy mules—pecked at the water, as workers broke down wooden structures previously used to protect the birds during the "pre-gavage," two months of outdoor, free-range binge-training to stretch the esophagus.
If the Panic of '08 had never happened, and the city kept gavaging itself on luxury, there would be plenty of other delis transformed into purple-colored dandy stores like this one.
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