Foie gras, ( French: "fat liver") a delicacy of French cuisine, the liver of a goose or duck that has been fattened by a process of force-feeding.
"It was a choice of letting him starve or of taking the risk of killing him by a broken vertebra in the process of force-feeding," he later recalled.
To the Editor: Buried in the deeply disturbing Op-Ed article by Samir Naji al Hasan Moqbel is the revelation that military physicians remain actively involved in the process of force-feeding competent detainees.
In some commercial plants, geese are fattened by a special process of force-feeding, resulting in a considerable enlargement of their livers, which are sold as the delicacy foie gras.
Gavage — the process of force-feeding geese through funnels in order to fatten their livers — is a standard part of foie-gras production, but there are some who claim that it can be done without hurting the birds, and others who claim that geese can be coaxed into overfeeding themselves.
Rather than the protracted process of forcing down wages to regain competitiveness, the devaluation would be a prompt remedy.
This study shows how ordinary people, though often complicit with this process of forced forgetting, are responsible for ensuring the survival of that cultural knowledge.
This meant that with Shelly's blessing, the NBA could bypass the contentious process of forcing Donald to sell, and could proceed right to the bidding war.
They have a lot to learn, especially the arrogant Bobby, and, Ron Wertheimer wrote in the New York Times, the "process of forced metamorphosis is both fascinating and frightening".
