Noodles (fattening)

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Fattening geese on an Egyptian bas-relief, New York Public Library
Goose noodles

Pasta, or darning, is a form of poultry farming in which geese or ducks are “darned” by force-feeding them .

General

Maize and water are used as fattening feed .

The aim of the fattening is to achieve massive enlargement and fatty degeneration of the liver through an unnaturally large feed intake , the foie gras , which is then usually further processed into foie gras (French: pâté de foie gras ):

The fatty livers are created by a certain fattening shape ( gavage ), the stuffing, in which the animals are force-fed for the last 21 to 28 days . Around three to four times a day, the animals are pumped into the stomachs of the animals using a pipe, for example 95 percent corn and 5 percent lard . The birds are conscious. As a result, the livers weigh 1000 to 2000 grams instead of the usual 300 grams at slaughter, and the fat content fluctuates between 31 and 51 percent.

The animals are in an enclosure and are driven through a lock to be stuffed and held there in a narrow space. The actual noodle process takes a few seconds: an approximately 30 cm long metal tube is inserted into the throat of geese, through which the fattening feed is pressed from a storage container under pressure into the stomach. When pressure is too high it comes to tearing of the esophagus , the goitre or the stomach , resulting in the death of the animal. During this phase of fattening, 2-4% of the animals die. To reduce the risk of injury , the metal tubes are mostly covered with soft plastic today.

This form of mast is now practiced almost exclusively in France (in Périgord and Alsace ); In the past, however, plugging was also widespread in other countries, for example in Germany in Baden and the Palatinate . Other production countries are Hungary , Bulgaria and Canada .

Legal Aspects

Overview of foie gras producing countries (red), countries in which this type of fattening is prohibited (blue)

This type of fattening is now regarded as cruelty to animals in numerous countries and is prohibited there by the animal welfare act or other laws, for example in Argentina , Denmark , Germany , Finland , Great Britain , Ireland , Israel (since 2005), Italy (since 2004), Luxembourg , Netherlands , Norway , Austria , Poland , Sweden , Czech Republic and Switzerland . However, import and sale are still permitted in the EU, for example .

In France, was Foie gras (French: foie gras ) in 2005 by the French National Assembly in an addendum to the farm bill for national and gastronomic heritage explained and is therefore exempt from the French animal protection laws.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Facts on foie gras / fatty liver production (PDF; 107 kB), pro iure animalis, accessed on August 31, 2011
  2. ↑ Leber und Leber Lassen , Spiegel Online, May 30, 2012
  3. ^ French National Assembly declares foie gras a cultural asset ( memento of October 26, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) , netzeitung.de, October 18, 2005