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    Force-feeding is the practice of feeding a human or animal against their will. The term gavage (UK: /ˈɡævɑːʒ, ɡæˈvɑːʒ/, US: /ɡəˈvɑːʒ/, French: [ɡavaʒ])...
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    initiated force-feeding programs. In 2005, Captain John Edmonson, who was then Naval Base's chief medical officer, asserted that force feeding was a last...
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    supplementation. The state of being fed by a feeding tube is called gavage, enteral feeding or tube feeding. Placement may be temporary for the treatment...
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    Foie gras (category Force-feeding)
    gras is defined as the liver of a duck or goose fattened by gavage (force feeding). Foie gras is a popular and well-known delicacy in French cuisine....
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    even a week, to which the government responded by force-feeding them. The first suffragette to be force fed was Evaline Hilda Burkitt. The death of one...
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    Hunger-striking detainees claimed that guards were force feeding them in the fall of 2005: "Detainees said large feeding tubes were forcibly shoved up their noses...
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    strike is often terminated by the custodial entity through the use of force-feeding. Fasting was used as a method of protesting injustice in pre-Christian...
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    of Leblouh (Arabic: البلوح, romanized: lə-blūḥ) is the practice of force-feeding girls from as young as five, through to teenagers, in Mauritania, Western...
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  • that Burkitt was being force-fed up to four times a day. She "suffers agonies with her nerves ... She is sick after every feeding ... Her throat is in a...
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    frequently force-fed the women, using tubes inserted through the nose or mouth. The painful techniques (which, in the case of mouth-feeding, required the...
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    have been attributed in part to the trauma of her hunger strike and force feeding by the prison authorities. Lytton was the third of seven children of...
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  • regarding the Bouvia case. Bouvia tried to resist the force-feeding by biting through the feeding tube. Four attendants would then hold her down while...
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    Foie gras controversy (category Force-feeding)
    controversial force-feeding of birds with more food than they would eat in the wild, and more than they would voluntarily eat domestically. The feed, usually...
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  • prison hospital for observation; force-feeding began two weeks later. British policy at this time was to force feed hunger strikers. According to the...
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  • Leblouh (category Force-feeding)
    Leblouh (Arabic: البلوح, romanized: lə-blūḥ) is the practice of force-feeding girls from as young as five to nineteen, in countries where obesity was...
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  • for people to stay active and healthy. Ensure has been used in the force feeding of hunger-striking prisoners at the United States' Guantanamo Bay detention...
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    in Arms Act Case). and 30 others. Singh died on 17 May 1933 due to force feeding. Mohit Moitra and Mohan Kishore Namadas also died during the hunger...
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    DeSantis oversaw force-feeding detainees and DeSantis acknowledged that he advised the commander of the base about the use of force feeding. In 2007, DeSantis...
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    Ortolan bunting (category Force-feeding)
    when feeding their young. For centuries, a rite of passage for French gourmets was the eating of the Ortolan. These tiny birds—captured alive, force-fed...
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    has media related to Guantanamo force-feeding. Carol Rosenberg, "Ramadan at Guantanamo Bay includes nightly force-feedings", Miami Herald, 24 August 2010...
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    strike; the authorities broke down the cell doors and force-fed the strikers. Following the force-feeding, Davison decided on what she described as a "desperate...
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    precursor to forcible feeding and militancy was against the will of God, therefore the church could not act against forcible feeding. Research indicates...
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    China some 3000 years ago, and possibly much earlier.: 121 : 3 : 2  Force-feeding of ducks is documented from the tenth century, under the Five Dynasties...
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    Aquatic feeding mechanisms face a special difficulty as compared to feeding on land, because the density of water is about the same as that of the prey...
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    faltered and the impasse continued. The authorities then attempted force-feeding the prisoners but this was resisted. With the matter still unresolved...
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    (aka Mos Def) force-fed under standard Guantánamo Bay procedure – video". The Guardian. Retrieved July 8, 2013. "Yasiin Bey force-feeding video launches...
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    strike and forcible feeding. The medals could be issued with more than one bar representing multiple hunger strikes or force-feeding. Each Hunger Strike...
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  • but is killed by a masked figure, The Grinder, whom Thomas witnesses force-feeding Jeremy’s body to The Goddess. Sneaking past, he finds Jennifer alive...
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    was force fed twice a day by having a feeding tube inserted in his nose and down into his stomach. His lawyer, Stephen Oleskey, described the force feeding...
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  • force-feeding. Since then, he has supported the animal protection organisation on its campaign to ban the import of foie gras made by force-feeding in...
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