Animal Ethics

AUGUST 21, 2012

To the Editor: “ Some in California Skirt a Ban on Foie Gras ” (news article, Aug. 13) might give readers the impression that California chefs are free to serve foie gras as a complimentary side dish and so evade the state ban on sales. PETA urges everyone to avoid this product of cruelty to animals.

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Animal Person

MAY 17, 2009

Do you agree with the New York Times ' William C. Let's deconstruct the concept: Do you think that people who have spent their lives harming animals by eating them, just like I did and much of my family still does, deserve a second chance? Like "producing" foie gras? Like eating foie gras?

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Animal Ethics

APRIL 25, 2007

Here is a New York Times story about goose-liver paste, a.k.a. pâté de foie gras. Nobody with a conscience should eat this.

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Animal Ethics

SEPTEMBER 17, 2009

9 editorial “ Justice on the Farm ” describing a “visit to a duck farm in Sullivan County where workers toil through exhausting shifts to force feed poultry for foie gras” encapsulates one of the fundamental problems facing agriculture today: the perpetual chain of exploitation that occurs on many farms.

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