• Don’t eat duck from supermarkets or restaurants - it’s almost all factory farmed. Go veggie! Click here for more information.

• Read about our latest Day of Action for Ducks on November 11 2006, to ‘Free Jake’ and the millions of factory farmed ducks like him.

• Viva! needs your support. Please donate to our campaign and help us stop the misery of factory farming. Join Viva! if you are not already a supporter.
  

• Write to: Minister for Farm Animal Welfare, DEFRA, Nobel House, 17 Smith Square, London SW1P 3JR. For a sample letter, click here.

• Write to your local newspaper (this always gets a fantastic response). For a sample letter, click here.
  For a list of local newspapers email addresses, click here.

Since the launch of Viva!’s campaign, Sainsburys, Marks & Spencer, Tesco, Waitrose, Somerfield and ASDA have stopped selling meat from debeaked Muscovy (also known as Barbary) ducks. Harrods have withdrawn all factory farmed duck meat. Waitrose now only sells meat from 'free-range' ducks, and now provides outdoor ponds for swimming. Marks & Spencer and Tesco (both share the same supplier as Waitrose) have also said they will trial providing swimming water (although neither currently allows their ducks access to the outside). These victories show that consumer pressure works! However, many still stock intensively farmed meat from Mallard-type ducks. Please write or call the following and ask them to withdraw it.

Also, Keep the pressure on: find out the latest on each supermarket how to reply to those generic responses (updated November 06).

Sellers of Mallard-type factory farmed duck meat (Please note: Waitrose sell duck meat from intensive 'free-range' flocks - all other supermarkets sell meat from ducks that have no access to the outside and no access to water for swimming) :

Stuart Rose, Chief Executive,
Marks & Spencer, Waterside House, 35 North Wharf Rd, London, W21 NW
Email at: retailcustomer.services@marks-and-spencer.com.
Call customer services on 0845 302 1234

Justin King, Group Chief Executive
J Sainsbury plc, 33 Holborn, London, EC1N 2HT
Email Sainsbury's from their website: http://www.sainsburys.co.uk/contactus/main.asp
Call customer Services on freefone 0800 636 262.

Robert Winston Stott, Chief Executive, Morrisons / Safeways, Hillmore House, Thorton Rd, Bradford, West Yorkshire BD8 9AX
Call customer services on 0845 611 6111

John Von Speckelsen, Chief Executive,
Somerfield Stores, Somerfield House, Whitchurch Lane, Bristol BS14 OTJ
Email Somerfield from their website: http://www.somerfield.co.uk/site/contact/feedback/index.asp
Call on 0117 935 6669

Martin Beaumont, Chief Executive,
Co-Op, PO Box 53, New Century House, Manchester M60 4ES.
Email Co-op from their website: http://www.coop.co.uk/fscontactsall.htm
Call on 0161 834 1212

Terry Leahy, Chief Executive,
Tesco, Tesco House, PO Box 18, Delamare Road, Cheshunt, Herts EN8 9SL.
Email at: customer.services@tesco.co.uk.
Call customer services on freefone 0800 505 555

Steven Esom, Managing Director,
Waitrose, Southern Industrial Area, Bracknell RG12 8YA
Email at: customer_service@waitrose.co.uk
Call on 01344 825232 or by Freephone: 0800 188 884

Andy Bond, President,
Asda, Asda House, Southbank, Great Wilson Street, Leeds, LS11 5AD
Call customer services on 0500 100055

You can use our letter to write to the above supermarkets. 

Keep the pressure on: find out how to reply to those generic supermarket responses