Scientists from the Max Planck Institute in Germany have developed a way to replicate the taste and texture of foie gras without force-feeding ducks or geese, using a key enzyme to restructure fat.

MORRISTOWN, N.J. — An anorexic and bulimic New Jersey woman who petitioned a court to refuse force-feeding has died three months after a judge granted her request. Her court-appointed lawyer, Edward D ...

The French delicacy foie gras could be made more ethically thanks to a technique that replicates the way fats are metabolised in force-fed birds, although the process still depends on farmed animals.

More than 12,400 inmates across California have been fasting since Monday, to protest solitary confinement and call for improved prison conditions. The strike, involving roughly two-thirds of the ...

A Navy nurse who refused to manage the force-feeding of hunger-striking inmates at Guantánamo Bay over the summer is now facing a potential discharge and the loss of his pension. Nurses’ groups have ...