An Offal Idea?

Well your partly right and partly wrong. While it does sound horrible what is being done, i have to say from first hand experience that with most of these high price items, since the people making them know where it is is going, i.e to fancy restaurants and in the hand of picky chefs who pay for it, the animals actually get better care then in a normal farm. I myself am a professionally trained chef from one of the top culinary schools in the world. As part of my education i spent time in different farms to see the product all the way from farm to plate.

AS for foie gras, i know it sounds wrong, but the geese LOVE. basically they are in a large free roaming farm with much better facilities then a normal poultry saluter farm, which i also have seen. When it comes time for feeding, the farmer walks in the pen and takes what looks like a giant funnel that is on a track from the roof, then he simply pulls it down and the duck flock to him, they want to be feed there is no force feeding at all.

Veal is a little bit different, while it is true, they are baby cows, the thought is that the less the muscles work the more tender and less tough and gritty the meat is. To be classified as real veal the cow must be slaughtered before it reaches one year of age.
Again the framers of real veal (most grocery store labeled veal really isn't veal) they are taken care of MUCH better than the cows that a "regular" steak would come from.

Lastly the caviar, there you are true. Caviar is the eggs from a fish. The most expensive and best is the beluga caviar that can only come from a sturgeon fish in the tiny caspian sea near russian. The countries that border the Caspian sea have over fished the sturgeon in THAT sea near extinction. however they have stopped all production now and hope for the fish to come back, however any eggs from any fish can be considered caviar, and there many, many , many kinds. I am partial to Salmon roe (caviar is also called roe by the Japanese).

hope this helps clear things up a bit. I don't think that the food prepared for people in the US is anywhere near what it should be, but to hawk at gourmet food producers is not the right place to be looking. the worst crimes are being committed by the people that slaughter cows and poultry for the likes of tom thumb, kroger, wal-mart, albertsons, Mcdonalds . . .