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Show - 1 SOME DANGER IN FOIE GRAS Geese From Which Livers Are Taken ' Are Now Fattened With ' Poison. I "Nothing Ih better," said Cordon rilou, "ihan fole gras, or fat goo.ie f llrer. A fole gras Is the !7e of a f- o- f pound steak, it Is as uhltu as in' c, and It tastes rather like ground peanut pea-nut butter. Vet no light and ethereal r la a fole eras greenhorn would take It for something powdered up und t whipped, like cream. I "You know bow they get these II v- j era? Thv phut up the goose, and they stuff him with . "d for;- d through a hose. He must eat, whether he wants to or not. He Is exactly like K the suffragette hunger strikers In (l London, hom the home office fed P through stomach pumps. y "It takes years to fatten a goose t to the point where his great whlta y liver is as big as a footbu.l, but lately y genius has arisen In France who will fatten him In a few months. This quick, cheap fattinltig Is accomplished ac-complished by the addition of salts of sorrel, or bluoxalate of potash, to the goose's food. The blnoxaVe of potash a works like a inarm. The i.nly trouble f with the superb livers It produces Is that these livers, containing oxalate of potassium, occasionally kill those who cat them." ' Cordon Uleu smiled lror'cally. 1 "rtut In these days of Industrialism," he said, "when property Is sacred and life cheap, ca no fait rein that doesn't I matter, t |
