We need your help raising awareness about the suffering of ducks exploited for foie gras. At Farm Sanctuary, we are privileged to know three special ducks Kohl, Harper and Burton all of whom were rescued from a foie gras farm. These three constantly remind us why it’s so important to keep educating others about this cruel industry. When Kohl first arrived at our New York Shelter in Watkins Glen, he was barely able to stand, unable to eat on his own, and in respiratory distress due to his enlarged liver. For Kohl, Harper, Burton, and other ducks who once endured or are now facing the horrors of foie gras production, we hope to make changes one restaurant at a time.
Every kind of help is needed to put a stop to foie gras cruelty whether you are able to write letters to establishments or letters to the editor, or attend a demonstration. Contact
campaign (at) farmsanctuary.org for more information on how you can help. You can also join Farm Sanctuary and Syracuse Animal Rights Organization as we demonstrate outside L'adour in downtown Syracuse.
Upcoming Demos:
Sunday, July 13 noon to 1 p.m.
Friday, July 18 6:30 to 8 p.m.
Friday, July 25 6:30 to 8 p.m.
L'Adour
110 Montgomery St.
Syracuse, NY 13202
By definition, foie gras can only be made by force-feeding ducks or geese such a huge amount of food that their livers swell to six to 10 times their normal size in just a few weeks. The sick birds suffer from liver disease and have a mortality rate that is 20 times greater than that of birds raised on conventional duck farms. More than a dozen countries, as well as the state of California, have already banned this culinary cruelty.
Activists across the U.S. and Canada have convinced a growing number of restaurants to drop this inhumane product from their menus, and more than 1,000 restaurants have signed our No Foie Gras Pledge. Help us convince others to do the same!
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Re: Syracuse: Help Take Foie Gras Cruelty Off the Menu
1. Not all foie gras is made through force feeding. Duck raisers have found that if they wait until the winter harvest to slaughter the ducks they have a naturally fatty liver. Hence no need for force feeding.
2. Foie Gras costs about $30 a pound -- very expensive so when the article says that more than a 1000 restaurants have signed the petition I seriously doubt more than a 100 restuarants in ny serve or have served dishes with foie gras. You will only find this dish in the most expensive of restuarants so have more than a 1000 people signed the pledge? sure that's possible, but what does it matter if your local dennys, mcdonalds, street meat vender or olive garden signed this petition. They'd never use foie gras anyway.
3. some places have banned the force feeding of ducks -- but they have not banned foie gras. As they realize that it can be made ethically. If foie gras was banned restuarants and stores would simply change its name. "no no officer that's not foie gras -- its something new -- its blah gras
For more info check out the wikipedia entry on foie gras and this article below:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foie_gras
news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/6301715.stm
Re: Re: Syracuse: Help Take Foie Gras Cruelty Off the Menu
The BBC article you link to describes a single company in Spain that provides "ethical foie gras". It then goes on to quote critics who say "without the force feeding, it is not foie gras." It seems very unlikely that the restaurants being picketed are not using force-fed geese.
The original article talks about activists across the United States and Canada, not just NY state. Surely there are 1000 restaurants in the two countries that serve foie gras.
Finally, you third point doesn't seem likely at all. NYC recently banned trans fats. Are you claiming that restaurants are now going to use margarine that contains trans fats, but say they're "wans mats?" I highly doubt the city will buy that. Why would it be different for foie gras? For that matter, where does the original article discuss a goventment ban on foie gras at all?
Re: Syracuse: Help Take Foie Gras Cruelty Off the Menu
Re: Syracuse: Help Take Foie Gras Cruelty Off the Menu
Re: Syracuse: Help Take Foie Gras Cruelty Off the Menu
Re: Syracuse: Help Take Foie Gras Cruelty Off the Menu
Re: Syracuse: Help Take Foie Gras Cruelty Off the Menu