Contact M & S

Contact Marks & Spencer to register your protest at their involvement in animal suffering, and ask them to stop selling duck meat.

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Contact:
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Phone Customer Services on:
0845 302 1234

Or write to:
Stuart Rose
CEO
Marks & Spencer
Waterside House
35 North Wharf Rd
London
W2 1NW

Dear Marks & Spencer

I am extremely disappointed to discover that M&S has gone back on its word, and is once again fully involved in the shameful practice of factory farming ducks despite assuring its customers that it had a commitment to "promoting free-range poultry".

A recent undercover investigation on a national TV news channel revealed shameful conditions at your supplier, MFD Foods. They discovered dead and dying ducklings littered throughout the sheds, birds suffering from eye infections and in considerable distress, filthy ducks unable to clean themselves because their water supply was so restricted and others who could not walk, dragging themselves along by their wings. These are exactly the same kind of conditions Viva! exposed at this supplier in 2004, which led to you dropping factory-farmed whole duck.

I understand that in light on this footage you are no longer taking ducks from this supplier, but I would like an explanation as to why M&S went back on its word and has misled its customers. I would also like to know who is currently supplying duck meat to you, and what welfare scheme is in now in place in an attempt to prevent the scenes shown in this latest investigation.

However, I understand that similar conditions exist everywhere these essentially wild birds are intensively farmed, and you simply cannot have high welfare on a factory farm. In light of this, I call on you to immediately end the sale of all factory-farmed duck meat.