French foie gras, now 'Made in China' for the Chinese

A worker watches over a group of ducks at a duck farm for the production of foie gras, meaning 'fatty liver' in French, in the town of Yanqing, located 70km north-west of Beijing. - Reuters

Prompted by an import ban, a French firm plans to be fattening a million ducks in China by 2020 to supply a growing appetite there for foie gras.

It may seem sacrilegious to suggest that foie gras can be made by anyone but the French – or anywhere else but France – the main reason for “Made In China” foie gras is that the authentic stuff is banned in China.