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Foire Gras and dairy farming family's women experience hardships together during breakfast at their home in Alsace. The Kesslers live on the farm in the quiet village of Boofzheim in Alsace, France. Their business is producing Foie Gras and they raise force-fed ducks near the German border region. The youngest member is their daughter with head in her hands. Beside her, her mother reads the local newspaper by the window and her grandmother who has just served breakfast. The family farm produces the French delicacy called Foie Gras so early mornings and long days are required. France produces and consumes the most Foie Gras in Europe using the French Gavage method of forcing ducks or geese to consume vast quantities of corn mash down the oesophagus two weeks before slaughter.

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Foire Gras and dairy farming family's women experience hardships together during breakfast at their home in Alsace. The Kesslers live on the farm in the quiet village of Boofzheim in Alsace, France. Their business is producing Foie Gras and they raise force-fed ducks near the German border region. The youngest member is their daughter with head in her hands. Beside her, her mother reads the local newspaper by the window and her grandmother who has just served breakfast. The family farm produces the French delicacy called Foie Gras so early mornings and long days are required. France produces and consumes the most Foie Gras in Europe using the French Gavage method of forcing ducks or geese to consume vast quantities of corn mash down the oesophagus two weeks before slaughter.