I don’t know, blaming activists for the actions of farmers seems specious.
And there’s a lot of “The animals are okay because they’re not humans, and humans would have a harder time with the same treatment. Also other animals have worse things done to them, don’t forget.”-type hand-wavey what-abouty arguments. Or don’t ban this because a certain fraction of the farms do it to less abusive standards.
It boils down to, “A famous chef wants you to know you can eat this without guilt, because it’s not as bad as it could be.” If you already wanted to believe that, this thread maybe provides some helpful rationalisations.
My “favorite” part of that article was where he started making the argument that ducks probably don’t mind force-feeding that much because cormorants are also birds and they eat big fish all the time. Super-science.
