My palate has no conscience, so I don't need a justification to eat foie gras, but in case you've ever felt morally iffy about it, here's an excellent and informative article in its defense from Incanto Restaurant of San Francisco. My favorite bit:

Working to ban something that 99% of people never eat is not an act requiring great moral or physical courage in the same vein as was, say, the fight for civil rights in the U.S. or the fight for self rule in India. By comparison, the anti-foie gras mo