FW: Foie Gras Protest at Nine On Nine on Valentine's Day!

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Sun, 10 Feb 2008 17:05:39 +0100voicesforanimalsSubject: Foie Gras Protest at Nine On Nine on Valentine's Day!

Valentine’s Day Protest Against Nine On Nine Thursday!

In our last issue of LYnX we told you that there is a local restaurant that has recently started selling foie gras again, despite having a prior agreement with Voices For Animals to remove it from their menu and to no longer sell it. That restaurant is Nine On Nine in the Cultural District Downtown. As you’ll see from these links, Nine On Nine now offer foie gras on their regular menu as well as their bar menu in the form of foie gras burgers:

http://nineonnine.com/mainmenu.pdf

http://nineonnine.com/bar9%20menu.pdf

A visit to the restaurant confirmed that this menu is current and accurate.

We are not going to let Nine On Nine get away with this. VFA is now launching a campaign against them as the next phase of our Foie Gras-Free Pittsburgh campaign, starting with a protest outside the restaurant on Valentine’s Day, the busiest day of the year for the restaurant industry. Nine On Nine is already booked solid all day on Valentine’s Day, so let’s let all their customers and the downtown public know that Nine On Nine is an unethical business that doesn’t hold to its agreements and is now supporting the extremely abusive foie gras industry again.

Since Nine On Nine prides itself on its “French inspired” cuisine and foie gras, after all, originates from France, our protest is going to have a French theme featuring heart shaped signs with French slogans like “Say Au Revoir to Foie Gras” and “Vive la Compassion!” The protest will be at 7:00 PM and will last about an hour. We know its Valentine’s Day and a lot of you have plans, but if you are able to spare an hour to come out and speak up for the ducks and geese suffering on foie gras farms, it would be greatly appreciated. We’ll have all the signs and literature so you only need to bring yourself and hopefully some friends. Let’s help make Nine On Nine go foie gras-free permanently!

WHERE: Nine On Nine restaurant, 900 Penn Avenue, 15222, Downtown

WHEN: Thursday, February 14th, Valentine’s Day, 7:00 PM

Foie gras production is one of the cruelest and most egregious forms of factory farming. It literally means "fatty liver" and is made by force feeding ducks and geese over a third of their weight in food each day through a metal tube. The force-feeding continues until the birds' livers are severely enlarged up to ten times their normal size, creating a serious and painful disease called hepatic lipidosis. This literally makes foie gras a disease sold as a delicacy. Force feeding wreaks such terrible havoc on these birds' bodies that many ducks are not able to walk or even stand up properly. Past investigations at foie gras farms have revealed conditions of the most horrific nature. Ducks were kept in such tight confinement that little room is allowed for any movement, ducks are denied any water to swim in, and many ducks were uncovered who were severely sick or dying from disease, infection, and force-feeding induced conditions, such as aspiration pneumonia and their stomachs literally burst open from being overstuffed with food. An undercover investigation of Elevages Perigord in Canada revealed appalling abuse where ducks were kicked and bashed to death by workers, and ducks’ heads were even ripped off.

Foie gras is so inherently cruel that over a dozen countries have banned its production, and in the United States, the production and sale of foie gras will be made illegal throughout the state of California in 2012. The city of Chicago has already banned its sale, and other states and cities, such as Philadelphia, are working hard to pass similar legislation. Here in Pittsburgh, VFA’s Foie Gras-Free Pittsburgh campaign has succeeded in convincing over a dozen restaurants and stores to stop selling foie gras since January of 2004.

For more information on foie gras visit www.stopforcefeeding.com

 

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