ABSTRACT
The controversy focuses on animal welfare and rights and mobilizes supporters, ethicists, stockbreeders, artisans, chefs, scientists, veterinarians, politicians, legislators, judges, lobbies, the media, citizens, and consumers. It addresses two broader social issues: the modern relations between animals and human beings and foie gras as an authentic cultural icon of local food heritage. In the surroundings, at least one stall in every producer-market or weekly open-air market is related to fat duck products and foie gras. The chapter looks at the tourist food experience as being embedded in daily life and includes social structures. It discusses the body of works focusing on tourist-eater experience from a consumer studies perspective by examining the motivations of the tourists to visit a food destination or to experiment with local food. The qualitative approach is rooted in ethno-methodology and phenomenology that take onboard individual subjectivity and lived experiences.
