Delicacy that heaps shame on the entire luxury food industry.

(From Western Daily Press)

It's one of the most celebrated and sought-after gastronomic delicacies on the planet; it's expensive and sublimely delicious... but its creation is so barbaric and unspeakably cruel that production is outlawed in many countries around the world, including Britain.

Foie gras (which is French for "fatty liver") is made from the hideously enlarged livers of male ducks and geese which have been inhumanely force-fed. The appalling process, which involves putting pipes down the throats of the terrified birds and then endlessly pumping them full of grain and fat, is so grotesque that it's spawned a massive campaign to have foie gras completely banned.

The James Bond actor, Sir Roger Moore, once a devotee of the controversial dish, has lent his name and voice to the movement and, in a gruesome documentary film, has described it as the "delicacy of despair".

But foie gras, this anything-but-ordinary luxury product, raises great passions on both sides of the argument, and no more so ...