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"A Southern Season" is selling Foie Gras, describing it as "meltingly
rich duck from the heart of France." Please let them know that the
cruelty behind the production of Foie Gras is never in season.
Contact:
Foie gras producers force-feed ducks and geese to abnormally distend
their livers. Birds are confined in small cages or crowded pens for
28 days of force-feeding. 16"-long tubes are rammed down their
throats, attached to a pressurized pump that gorges the birds,
leaving many birds unable to walk naturally. Necropsies during a foie
gras farm police raid showed heart disorders, ruptured liver cell
membranes, cirrhosis of the liver, and lesions (wounds) in the
gizzards and intestines of the force- fed birds. Dead birds have been
found with food spilling up from their stomachs out of their
nostrils.
United Poultry Concerns. November 28, 2000
United Poultry Concerns, Inc.
PO Box 150
Machipongo, VA 23405-0150
757-678-7875
FAX: 757-678-5070
www.upc-online.org
(Action Alert - "A Southern Season" Selling Foie Gras)
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