The force-feeding process, called gavage, causes the animals liver to expand up to 10 times its size.

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What do they think when they see that through the bus windows on their way to the next gavage of geese?

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Worse, as the public sector fails to use sound management practices and simply resorts to the workplace equivalent of gavage, productivity and morale will inevitably fall.

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At Hudson Valley, ducks are raised to 12 weeks before they begin the gavage process in pens 4-feet by 6-feet with 11 ducks in each enclosure, according to Marcus Henley, the farm's operations manager.

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