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• v  feed someone who will not or cannot eat

• The technique is to force-feed ducks with cornmeal through a tube put down their throats several times a day, causing their livers to enlarge.
• To make foie gras, farmers force-feed their fowl via a metal tube inserted in the ducks' throats.
• Because rodents have a lot of brown fat, it's very difficult to make them obese, even when you force-feed them in labs.

News & Articles

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• Military doctors urged to refuse force-feeding at Guantanamo
  By Jane Sutton GUANTANAMO BAY U.S. NAVAL BASE, Cuba (Reuters) - U.S. military doctors should refuse orders to force-feed hunger strikers at the Guantanamo detention camp because it violates their ethical obligations, two doctors and a medical ethics professor wrote in the New England Journal of Medicine on Wednesday. "Force-feeding a competent person is not the practice of medicine; it is ...
  June 13, 2013 - Reuters via Yahoo! News

Quotes

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• Arnold Schwarzenegger in San Francisco Chronicle
  I feel most comfortable with the way it is right now,Schwarzenegger said. "Eventually, in a few years from now, you can re-address it again and see what the people of California think. You cannot force-feed those kind of things."
• Phil Jackson in Los Angeles Times
  Two things working against him - he's injured his hand and the fact he hasn't found a comfort zone on the floor,Jackson said. "I've been trying to force-feed him in games, and it's hurting us and it's hurting him."