The force feeding of ducks and geese is one of the most cruel methods to gain a so called delicacy - Foie Gras (French for fat liver). Force feeding, visceral injuries and caging are the cruel everyday life of geese and ducks.
We, the undersigned, are very concerned with the practices of Chef, and restaurant owner, Peter Schitler. We are asking him to remove foie gras from his menu, and to stop promoting torture and animal cruelty.
The city council of Chicago has overturned a ban on foie gras, less than two years after it was imposed.
The ban was repealed in a vote by 36-6, and the decision will go into effect later this month. The city had issued few warnings to restaurants that
Foie gras - French for 'fatty liver' - is produced by forcing metal pipes down the throats of ducks and geese and force-feeding them until their livers become infected with a disease called 'hepatic steatosis,' and unnaturally enlarged to up to ten
If you thought that travelling around Europe by train was a cruelty-free option, think again. PETA has recently discovered that Eurostar are serving foie gras, or "fatty liver" - the grossly enlarged livers of ducks and geese - on board their trains.
The Prince of Wales has risked angering the French by banning the delicacy foie gras from royal menus and he has instructed chefs at all of his royal residences to stop serving the dish....my kinda prince!!
One of Britain's leading restaurants has been forced to remove foie gras from the menu after it was subjected to protests and vandalism by animal activists. Midsummer House in Cambridge - one of only a handful of restaurants in Britain to have two
Young ducks or geese have over four pounds of corn mush forced down their throats through a long metal pipe each day for two to three weeks until they can barely move and are on the verge of organ rupture and death.
As breast, leg or whole animal - duck and goose meat fills the supermarket freeezers. But what the consumer doesn't know: A large number of these birds are from the foie gras industry. Force-feeding ducks and geese is the cruel method used to produce this
Several South African restaurants have foie gras on the menu. This cruelly obtained item can surely be replaced by any one of a number of exotic alternatives. I am trying to get something going regarding banning the sale of foie gras. SIGN PETITION!
As the peak retail season approaches, Peta plans an ad campaign and protests outside stores stocking the luxurious foodstuff. By Jonathan Owen
Published: 25 November 2007
Dubbed the "delicacy of despair" by animal welfare campaigners, foie gras is the
Arrests have been plenty, and one activist was even rendered unconscious after sitting down during his arrest. Activists have been assaulted repeatedly by members of staff, mainly by the head chef who seems to mimic Gordon Ramsey's jumped up ego and aggre
executive vice president of the 75,000 member American Veterinary Medical Association (AVMA), Dr. DeHaven joins an organization that supports animal research, confinement farming and pregnant mare urine collection and just refused to oppose foie gras.
The video footage reveals horrific images of abuse including slaughter house workers kicking and throwing ducks, pulling the heads off live ducks, smashing ducks against cement walls and metal fencing. In the hatchery, baby ducklings are crushed and suffo
