Force-feeding, an act whereby some amount of liquid food such as pap is forced down the throat of a baby who does not want to eat is a common and safe practice in my community.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials have confirmed they are force-feeding nine detainees who initiated a hunger strike at an El Paso, Texas, detention center.
I've been covering the campaign by the charity Animal Equality to get restaurants to stop selling foie gras, which is produced by the horrific force-feeding of geese and ducks.
Paul Shapiro, a spokesman for the Humane Society of the US, which pushed the original ban, said a broad spectrum of consumers in many countries have expressed revulsion at the practice of force-feeding poultry to satisfy the palates of a niche group of gourmands.
The Israeli Supreme Court on Sunday turned down several appeals against the country's law permitting force-feeding of prisoners on hunger strikes if their lives are in danger.
The commission's lawyer, Tareq Barghout, noted that the ethics committee at Wolfson Medical Center, in Holon, Israel, is mulling force-feeding Balboul, which he stressed violates the detainee's right to protest the "inhumane and unethical" administrative detention.
Conclusion: Mothers from all educational and social backgrounds believe that their children are underweight for age and use force-feeding and appetite stimulants to improve their feeding.
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