Animal activitists have slammed TV celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay for promoting the French delicacy Foie Gras which is described as "a disease marketed as a delicacy".
The foul-mouthed chef triggered the row when cooking contestants on the latest episode of his Channel 4 show The F Word served the dish in a cook-off competition.
Foie Gras - "fatty liver" - is produced by force feeding ducks or geese until their livers swell-up to ten times the normal size.
Ramsay described the luxury food item as a "chef’s ultimate ingredient" and "rich, sumptuous, melt in your mouth and absolutely delicious".
The programme failed to mention the processes involved in the production of Foie Gras - which are banned by EU law in a number of countries including the United Kingdom, Germany, Italy and Poland.
But there is no ban on importing or purchasing the controversial ingredient, which is protected in French law as a part of the country’s cultural and gastronomical heritage.
Ramsay’s programme comes after the high-end department store Selfridges stopped selling the product after a campaign by Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) fronted by Sir Roger Moore.
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