Please help stop the proposed foie gras production unit in China.

Image from The Telegraph Newspaper.

It's back to the Far East again, this time it is geese that are being cruelly treated.  

HSI and CIWF have learnt of plans to open a huge foie gras producing unit which just happens to be next to a vital wildlife habitat and water source.  

The facility aims to confine millions of geese with a goal of producing 1,000 tonnes of foie gras each year.  In order to produce foie gras, ducks and geese are force fed an unnatural amount of food via a long pipe which reaches directly into their stomachs.  This causes the birds livers to become enlarged and diseased.

This practice is prohibited in most of Europe as well as Argentina, Israel and more recently in the U.S state of California.

Despite this, a British company has recently been exposed by CIWF and HSI as helping to fund the development of this foie gras factory farm.  Creek Projects Investments PLC has invested millions of pounds into the project, both organisations have written to Creek Projects urging them to stop funding animal cruelty.

Please click on this link to ask the Chinese government to stop plans for the cruel foie gras production facility.

What is foie gras?

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Foie gras (Pronounced "fwa gra") is French for "fat liver" and is made out of the liver from a duck or goose.  In order to produce foie gras the duck or goose concerned will be force fed corn.  Often the ducks and geese used in foie gras production are forced to live in tiny pens or cages amongst their own faeces, often they develop skeletal disorders and respiratory problems due to the force feeding they endure.  According to PETA, they are force fed two kilograms of grain, maize and fat which is the equivalent of us eating roughly 20 kilograms of pasta per day. 

This is no life for an animal.

Back in 2008, PETA engaged in talks with department store Fortnum & Mason who agreed that they would no longer sell duck foie gras.  Unfortunately, the store continues to sell goose foie gras in both its stores and restaurants.  Sir Roger Moore amongst other celebrities has in the past spoken out against foie gras and has previously helped persuade Selfridges and Harvey Nichols to drop the product, Sir Roger has now turned his attention to Fortnum & Mason but he and PETA need further support to help convince them to do the right thing.

How to Help

Click here and read more about PETA's campaign (warning, upsetting content) and then use their form to send a readily prepared e-mail to Fortnum & Mason asking them not to sell foie gras in their stores.

Don't forget to tell your friends!