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Help Us Make it Happen
- Tesco are selling foie-gras in their stores in Hungary. This
British company are profiteering off the back of 'torture in a
tin'.
Click here to complain to them.
- Click here for your foie-gras action pack, with stickers, leaflets, postcard to your local restaurant and more! Each pack contains 25 leaflets ideal for door-dropping.
- 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 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.
- No supermarkets are selling foie-gras because of people like
you putting pressure on them to stop. However, there are a few
large places still selling it (including Harrods, Selfridges and
Fortnum & Mason). Click here to find out how to contact them and a
sample letter to them and anyone else selling foie-gras.
- Contact your local councillor. York has banned foie-gras, so
has Bolton and Stockport - could yours be next? Click
here for a sample letter to write to
them. We can also provide you with everything you need.
Foie-gras production is so barbaric it already been ended in 15 countries – and the UK government has said that it would break existing welfare guidelines, so it is essentially banned here. However, although it violates UK animal welfare standards,
tons of foie-gras are imported into the UK every year and sold in shops and restaurants.
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www.fortnumandmason.com/contact-us.aspx
"Dear Fortnum & Mason
I was deeply upset to find out that you are selling foie-gras in your store and will not shop with you until this ends.
Foie-gras is the grossly enlarged liver of a duck or goose and is essentially a disease, marketed as a delicacy. Birds raised for this 'gourmet' cruelty are force-fed enormous quantities of food through a long metal pipe, three times a day. This process of deliberate and painful overfeeding continues for up to a month by which time the birds' livers have swelled to ten times their normal size. Every year, around a million ducks die during this period of force-feeding.
Foie-gras is not produced in Britain, as the Government has made it clear that its production would contravene existing animal welfare regulations, but sadly it is still perfectly legal to import it.
There is no excuse for a British company to profit off the back of extreme animal suffering and something that would be illegal to produce in this country.
Please remove foie-gras from sale and commit to not selling it in the future."
- Write to Caroline Spelman, and ask her to ban foie-gras
imports to the UK.
Caroline Spelman
Defra Secretary
Defra
Nobel House
17 Smith Square
London SW1P 3JR
helpline@defra.gsi.gov.uk (note:
use this email address from now on. She does not have her own
Ministerial address and emails are being sent back from her
constituency address saying they will only answer constituency
business. Put in email header: FAO
Caroline Spelman, Defra Secretary re: foie-gras ban in Britain
- Viva! is working with the French consumer group, Stop Gavage (French for forced feeding). Visit their website and sign their manifesto for the abolition of foie-gras across Europe.
- Call for a complete ban on force-feeding and the use of birds for foie-gras production in the European Union by writing to:
Commissioner Mariann Fischer Boel
Commissioner for Agriculture
European Commission
B-1049 Brussels
Belgium
Commissioner Markos Kyprianou
European Commission for Health and Consumer Protection
Commission of the European Union
200 Rue de le Loi
1049 Brussels
Belgium
Letter
Dear Letters to the Editor
I am very disappointed to see that a local business – [add the name of the restaurant or shop selling foie-gras here] is selling foie-gras.
Foie-gras is the grossly enlarged liver of a duck or
goose and is essentially a disease, marketed as a delicacy. Birds
raised for this 'gourmet' cruelty are force-fed enormous quantities
of food through a long metal pipe, three times a day. This process
of deliberate and painful overfeeding continues for up to a month by
which time the birds' livers have swelled to ten times their normal
size. Every year, around a million ducks die during this period of
force-feeding.
Foie-gras is not produced in Britain, as the Government has made it clear that its production would contravene existing animal welfare regulations, but sadly it is still perfectly legal to import it.
However, Viva! persuaded the state of California to pass legislation outlawing both the production and selling of foie-gras after recognising the barbaric methods employed in its production. After an appeal by Paul McCartney, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger signed the ban into law, conceding that foie-gras production is unacceptably cruel.
Local people also have the power to end the sale of foie-gras by not visiting establishments which sell this barbaric ‘delicacy’.
Of course, eating any animal causes suffering – the best way of stopping cruelty is to go vegetarian.
For more information on how to and for free info on how to go veggie, contact Viva!, 8 York Court, Wilder St, Bristol BS2 8QH, tel. 0117 944 1000, www.viva.org.uk/foiegras email info@viva.org.uk.
Your sincerely,
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In association with French consumer group Stop Gavage
“It’s comes from tortured ducks and geese, it’s a product of disease and it costs a fortune but some people still drool and dribble over foie-gras. It’s obtained by imprisoning birds in cages so tiny they can’t move, by forcing a pipe down their throats and force feeding them until their livers swell to ten times their natural size. There is always someone who’s ready to excuse barbarity and cruelty and that’s what those who eat it and those who sell it are doing. But there is no excuse and that’s why everyone should back Viva!’s campaign to make Britain foie-gras free. It certainly has my support.” Viva! patron Heather Mills
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