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foie gras · ducks and geese, force-fed · already counted under ducks
force-fed
40 million
a year
1.3
a second
109,514
a day
countries where it is illegal to make
over 20
and legal in france, which makes three quarters of it. the eu bans it in principle and exempts it in practice.
method CIFOG / EU production statistics: ducks and geese force-fed per year.
- a tube down the throat two or three times a day for about two weeks. the liver swells to ten times its size. the medical name is hepatic steatosis.source: EFSA 1998; CIFOG
- not added to the total on this page: these ducks are already there.source: methodology note
live. this is the channel itself. embed it anywhere:
<iframe src="https://thetoll.earth/?channel=foie%20gras" width="100%" height="520" style="border:1px solid #D9DDDB" title="the toll · foie gras"></iframe>
or the whole broadcast, every channel, the same for everyone:
<iframe src="https://thetoll.earth/?embed=1" width="100%" height="520" style="border:1px solid #D9DDDB" title="the toll · on now, everywhere"></iframe>
how this number is built
- method
- CIFOG / EU production statistics: ducks and geese force-fed per year.
- range
- 35–45 million/yr
- confidence
- count
- weakness
- a subset of the ducks channel; explicitly not added to the total.
- dispute
- dispute LGR-036 · corrections are credited
- data
- channels.json (sign-in) · full entry · CC BY 4.0