Foie gras, or “fatty liver,” is produced by force-feeding birds with a tube down their throat till their livers develop into diseased and unnaturally enlarged—and for its cruelty, it’s broadly opposed by customers. In reality, a current survey throughout 10 U.S. states discovered that 89% help banning the force-feeding of geese and geese and 81% help banning foie gras gross sales.
In 2019, our President and Co-founder, Gene Baur, joined a whole bunch of animal activists to testify in help of New York Metropolis’s laws. “Geese who’ve come to Farm Sanctuary after being rescued from foie gras farms are among the many sickest animals we now have cared for in over thirty years,” he stated. “Foie gras has no place in a society that values compassion, and New York Metropolis is usually a chief in bringing a couple of extra humane world.”
For many years, Farm Sanctuary has been on the forefront of the motion to finish the sale and merciless manufacturing of foie gras, together with sponsoring the landmark 2004 legislation that made California the primary state within the nation to ban foie gras.
At this time, we rejoice the court docket ruling that has ushered within the subsequent step within the combat in opposition to foie gras, prohibiting New York Metropolis’s eating places from serving this merciless dish, and we applaud the entire advocates who’ve stood collectively to guard birds from abuse.