ForcefedAndMurdered.com | Foie Gras Cruelty
Pâté de foie gras is made from the fatty, diseased livers of ducks and geese who are kept in small barren pens and forced to stand on metal grating for 24 hours a day amid their own faeces. Several times a day, workers grab them roughly by their necks, force a metal pipe down their throats and pump massive amounts of grain into their stomachs. This terrifying ordeal continues day after day until the animals develop “hepatic steatosis”, or liver disease. Their livers swell to up to 10 times their natural size, pushing against other organs and causing the distressed birds to pant constantly. Sometimes they collapse, as their legs can no longer support their own weight.
“Force feeding quickly results in birds that are obese and in a pathological state, called hepatic lipidosis or fatty liver disease. There is no doubt that in this pathological state, the birds will feel very ill. In my view it is completely unethical to deliberately promote a diseased state in an animal. The birds’ obesity will lead to a myriad of other problems from skeletal disorders to difficulties in coping with heat stress and all of which are accompanied by feelings of malaise.”
– Dr. Ian Duncan, poultry welfare expert and emeritus chair in animal welfare at the University of Guelph in Canada
In 2012, PETA went undercover and obtained graphic video footage of these atrocities happening on one of the farms that supply Fortnum & Mason’s foie gras distributor. Yet despite calls from tens of thousands of people for the store to stop selling the inhumane product, foie gras continues to tarnish its shelves.
Responsible retailers and caterers across the UK have banished foie gras from their shops and menus, including Selfridges, Ocado, Compass Group UK & Ireland and Brakes Group, the UK’s leading food-distribution company.
Ask Fortnum & Mason to stop selling vile foie gras today!
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