Maria Daines
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11/14/2006 8:16:45 PM
Diseased Liver on the Menu, Delicacy of Despair...
Know the facts behind this sickening industry !
Ducks and Geese used for Foie Gras often die from being force-fed up to 2 pounds of grain per day.
Foie gras is one of the most sickening examples of humans' using cruelty to get “luxury.” The term “foie gras” literally means “fatty liver.” It is the bloated liver of male ducks and geese who are force-fed enormous quantities of food until their livers expand well beyond their normal size. Workers ram pipes down the birds' throats two or three times a day and pump as much as 4 pounds of grain and fat into the animals' stomachs while the birds desperately struggle to get away. The pipes puncture many birds' throats, sometimes causing them to bleed to death or suffer painful wounds. On some farms, a single worker may be expected to force-feed 500 birds three times each day. Because of this rush, animals are often treated roughly and left injured and suffering.
Many birds have difficulty standing because of their engorged livers, and they may tear out their own feathers and cannibalize each other because of stress.
Undercover video footage taken at Sonoma Foie Gras shows rats eating the flesh of live ducks who are too bloated and crippled to defend themselves.
VIDEO LINK
This torture lasts 12 to 21 days and causes the birds' livers to bloat until they are up to 10 times their normal size. Because of the injuries and disease caused by force-feeding, the death rates on Foie Gras farms are between 10 and 25 times higher than the mortality rates on other duck and geese farms, and carcasses of animals from these farms show wing fractures and severe tissue damage to the throat muscles.
Force-feeding ducks and geese is illegal in several countries, and Chicago banned the sale of Foie Gras in 2006.
The practice of force-feeding ducks and geese to produce Foie Gras is undeniably cruel. A 1996 report by Belgian veterinarians states, “There is absolutely no doubt that force-feeding subjects them to physiological and behavioral suffering which dramatically reduces their well-being.” The report further concludes that “force feeding constitutes a reprehensible practice from an ethical point of view.”
Foie gras is so inhumane that, in 2004, the state of California banned the production and sale of products made by force-feeding animals, and in 2006, the city of Chicago enacted its own Foie Gras ban.14,15 The practice has also been outlawed in the U.K., Austria, Germany, the Czech Republic, Finland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, South Africa, Sweden, Switzerland, Denmark, and Israel.
Read more about this cruel industry.
HERE
You can help by signing the petition -
HERE
And by making your feelings known here -
www.food24.com
Via the forum on Foie Gras.
Thank you!
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Christpher Charles Pollard
Singer/Songwriter & Author
And yes we know how our food comes to us - we are proud vegetarians !
John XX111 wrote .....
Man must never hurt animals. Must never ill treat them nor torture them physically because they are sensitive creatures. If anyone told me that to achieve my purpose it would be sufficient to kill an ant, I would not do it.
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