Over 21 days the ducks are fed three times a day by a worker who uses a tube to fill the bird's esophagus with grain.

CNN: Foie gras causes uproar

Last month, she was walking her boxer and two Chihuahuas in Buena Vista Park with a friend while they discussed an impending state ban on foie gras, pate made from the livers of force-fed geese and ducks.

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French for "fat liver, " this delicacy comes from ducks and geese that are fed massive amounts of food in the last weeks of their life.

CNN: Foie gras causes uproar