Critter News

OCTOBER 18, 2011

In eight months, the sale of foie gras will be banned in California. There was smoked foie gras, roasted foie gras, steamed foie gras and liquefied foie gras, injected into agnolotti. There was even a foie gras dessert: a brownie sundae with foie gras Chantilly.

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Critter News

MAY 8, 2009

San Francisco supervisors have passed a resolution supporting city restaurants that remove foie gras from their menus. Foie gras is the liver of a duck or a goose that has been specially fattened by force feeding. Tags: meat california foie gras. I just find the whole description vile and gruesome.).

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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. 13, 2012

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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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