…a moment before cramming, the birds were so frightened that they huddled together as far away from the farmer as they could get – pushing themselves against the bars of the cage in an attempt to escape…the geese are terrified by the whir of the machinery, associating the sounds with more pain, they have been dragged struggling from the cage –usually by a wing…

This is part of the daily routine of those poor birds who never get the chance to fly, walk, forage and can hardly even breathe.

More than 25 million ducks and geese are forced-fed every year. At just a few months old, ducks and geese are confined inside dark sheds and force-fed enormous amounts of food several times a day, until the point of death, before they are slaughtered. Then their swollen and diseased livers are peddled as a "gourmet" delicacy known as foie gras - the French term for "fatty liver".

The workers enter the pen in a factory-farm building, where ducks are imprisoned, grab the ducks one at a time, hold them down, forcibly open their bill, shove a long pipe down their throat all the way to their stomach and then shove about 1.5 pounds of corn mixture into each duck's digestive system.
The ducks, know what is coming... they struggle to get as far away from the human as possible.
Both ducks and geese, endure this painful and distressing procedure at least 4 times a day for about 4 weeks.

Each worker is expected to force-feed 500 birds four times a day. Many ducks die when their stomachs burst from overfeeding. The workers, who killed fewer than 50 of "their" 500, receive bonuses.

In France (the world’s biggest producer of ‘Foie Gras’), 80% of all the forced fed ducks are now kept in individual cages in factory farms. This change has enabled costs to fall and production levels to increase by more than 100% over the past ten years, because they decrease the risk for disease spread and the injuries as a result of aggression between the ducks. The individual cages also make it easier for the workers, who don’t need to struggle with panicked ducks.

The individual cages are so small that the ducks are unable to stand or stretch their wings.
Their tails stick out at one end of the cage, and their necks at the other, allowing the force-feeder to grab their heads and force their beaks open.

Those humans cram the miserable birds with 1.5 pounds of salted, cooked maize, oil and water, often lubricated with goose fat. This is equivalent to about 17.5 pound (8 kilos) of spaghetti to a human– in only two seconds.

By the 12th day, the geese are being crammed every three hours – that is 8 times in one day – even during the night.

Their liver is sickly swollen, out of proportion to the birds' body, 10 to 12 times the normal size.

The force feeding causes severe injuries including bruising and tearing of the neck. Their increasing weight causes blisters as their breasts rub on the cage floor.

Sometimes the aggressive shoving of the pipe raptures their throat. Some of them die from bursting internal organs. Ducks and geese live in terror of these force-feeding horrors.

Autopsy show ruptured livers, throat injuries, esophagus trauma, and food spilling out of dead birds' nostrils.

"…One duck had a maggot-covered neck wound so severe that water spilled out of him when he drank."

Workers routinely carry ducks by their necks and sometimes forcing food down their trachea (breathing tube). The ducks struggle in terror while they suffocate to death.

The corn mixture is deliberately deficient in nutrients. This ensures that the liver does not function normally and accumulates fats instead of breaking them down.

The geese cannot even walk or stand, they are propelling themselves by pushing with their wings because their legs cannot support their own weight.

In addition to the extreme suffer they endure, many birds are debeaked, consequently they cannot keep themselves clean so their feathers become curled and sticky. Their bills become deformed or broken, and they suffer from severe damage to their pharynx and esophagus.

Only male ducks and geese are used for 'Foie Gras' – it is claimed that they 'produce' larger livers and are considered as more “convenient” to withstand the four weeks of torture. Female hatchlings are treated as trash – literally.

The workers stuff the female duckling into a nylon sack, tie the top and throw it to a trash can. Some of the ducklings manage to get out of the bags and the workers kill them by smashing their heads against the trash can.

After four weeks of force feeding, they are sent to be murdered. Their bodies are so swollen by this time that they can hardly move and have difficulty with breathing. Most of them only pant.

Between 30% and 70% of the birds suffer from multiple bone fractures by the time they reach the slaughterhouse due to the rough handling.

One farmer describes the “right time” to slaughter them:
"when they can’t breathe, appear as if they are about to have a heart attack or simply to have had enough…"

The geese and the ducks are reared to become deformed and diseased.
Almost all of the non-human animals are raised for the same purpose.
More than a hundred billion non-human animals are murdered every year after life of misery.
It will never stop. It is just getting worse.