Scientists from the Max Planck Institute in Germany have developed a way to replicate the taste and texture of foie gras without force-feeding ducks or geese, using a key enzyme to restructure fat.

MORRISTOWN, N.J. — An anorexic and bulimic New Jersey woman who petitioned a court to refuse force-feeding has died three months after a judge granted her request. Her court-appointed lawyer, Edward D ...

More than 12,400 inmates across California have been fasting since Monday, to protest solitary confinement and call for improved prison conditions. The strike, involving roughly two-thirds of the ...

A Navy nurse who refused to manage the force-feeding of hunger-striking inmates at Guantánamo Bay over the summer is now facing a potential discharge and the loss of his pension. Nurses’ groups have ...

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