PETA'S new billboard against foie gras coming to SF!

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For Immediate Release:

 

December 3, 2003

 

 

 

PETA’S NEW BILLBOARD AGAINST FOIE GRAS ASKS CONSUMERS TO SPURN CRUELTY TO DUCKS

 

Investigation of Sonoma Farm Reveals Filth, Suffering, and Death; Image from

Investigation to Appear on Billboard

 

San Francisco — Showing an actual photo of a dead duck with her feathers and

skin worn away to the flesh, next to the tagline “Ducks Die Like This to Make

Foie Gras,” PETA’s new anti-foie gras billboard will go up at 3845 Main St., 55

feet north of Folsom Street, facing south, just blocks from San Francisco’s Aqua

restaurant, which serves the product. Foie gras is made from the grossly

enlarged livers of ducks who are force-fed through pneumatic tubes stuck down

their throats. The ad comes in the wake of investigations into both Sonoma Foie

Gras in California and Hudson Valley Foie Gras in New York by

GourmetCruelty.com, an organization dedicated to exposing the cruelty behind the

“delicacy.”

 

Investigators witnessed ducks crammed into filthy, feces-ridden sheds and others

isolated in wire cages so small that they could barely move. They also observed

barrels full of dead ducks: Ducks can die from choking and from having their

organs rupture or explode during the traumatic force-feeding process. The

investigators rescued 15 ducks, including two who could not move and were being

eaten alive by rats.

 

On foie gras farms, workers shove inflexible pipes down the throats of ducks and

geese three times per day, every day, pumping 6 to 7 pounds of mash into their

stomachs. Those who survive the feedings suffer from a painful illness that

causes their livers to swell up to eight to 10 times their normal size. Some

birds can no longer walk and are reduced to propelling themselves over the cage

floors by pushing with their wings. When the birds are slaughtered, their livers

are sold for foie gras.

 

 

 

Said Oscar winner John Gielgud in a PETA public service announcement recorded

shortly before his death, “Foie gras is an abomination that every humane

individual and organization must reject as a disgrace in civilized society.”

 

Many countries have restricted force-feeding animals, and last August, the

Israeli Supreme Court banned the production of foie gras.

 

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