Flapper Thanks Foie Gras Protestors
Friday evening (April 17th), Flapper will join a group of good eggs who are trying to get foie gras banned from Seattle restaurants. If you don’t know how foie gras is made, be warned… it’s one of the cruelest forms of animal torture out there. And it passes as a “delicacy” in fine restaurants. Here is a link to a video inside Hudson Valley Farms, the largest seller of foie gras in the US.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XNJDZm1bgVA
WARNING: It’s a very graphic video.
Foie gras is fatty duck or goose liver. Ducks & geese are force-fed many times a day, an enormous amount of food. This causes their livers to grow to 10-TIMES their normal size from swelling and disease. Then the ducks are slaughtered for this “delicacy.” Read more about it from the Humane Society’s website:
http://www.hsus.org/farm/resources/research/welfare/the_foie_gras_industry.html
The Northwest Animal Rights Network (http://www.narn.org) has been protesting a local Seattle restaurant called Lark every Friday evening, to convince them to take foie gras off of their menu. Lark has so far resisted, but they have said they will take the public’s opinion into consideration.
Since Lark is taking the public’s reaction into account in continuing to serve foie gras, please contact Lark and let them know that you would like to see them remove it from their menu. Taking two minutes to do this will really make a difference for the ducks and geese who are force fed to create this cruel product.
Tel: (206) 323-5275
Email: info@LarkSeattle.com
Flapper will drop by the protest this Friday evening to thank the good eggs who help prevent cruelty to his fellow feathered friends. If Flapper likes his visit, we’ll probably do it again. If not, I’ve promised him some french fries on the way home.
Special thanks to all the good eggs who are working to prevent cruelty to animals. We’ll report back after the protest to let you know what Flapper thought of it.
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Awwww, Flapper, we love you too!!
We have our own foie gras campaign going up here in Vancouver. (http://liberationbc.org/campaigns/foie_gras) If only you lived here–I bet you’d be great for morale!
I will send off an email. Wonder if people entering the restaurant and or if there was a way to show how ducks and geese are force fed – it might have those entering change their minds.
Thank you Flapper and Tiff!
I won’t watch the video as I’m sure it’ll upset me, but I will send them an email. I’m so proud of Flappy pants.
I can’t believe I watched that video….
It is HORRIBLE.
How can anyone possibly just grab a little duck by it’s wing and stick glomp down it’s throat to fill it full and then move onto the next one…..
How very horrible.
I hope so badly this stops.
At the protest, Flapper should charge a couple bucks to for the privilege to be photographed with a celebrity duck. I’m sure that since he’s such a generous duck, he’d donate the proceeds to the Northwest Animal Rights Network. Hell, I’d pony up a few bucks to have my picture taken with Flapper!
Hi tiff,
french foie gras campaign at http://www.stopgavage.com/en/index.php (page in english)
Please sign the manifesto.
thanks
Hi Dominique -
I signed the manifesto. Thanks for sharing the link.
Best,
Tiff
Becci – All the best from Flapper to everyone in Vancouver working to stop foie gras production in Canada. XOXOX and quacks, Tiff, Flap & the flock.
When i have eaten at a restaurant that even serves duck let alone the foie gras, i always speak up about it. It makes me so mad the way they fatten up these ducks. I didn’t look at the video because i know what happens. I have for years fought against this including bringing it up with friends of mine who dare to eat duck or any of a duck’s contents.
I would love to have my picture taken with the Flap.
That’s all for a good cause Flapper, thank you for sticking up for your fellow ducks and geese, and Tiff too. I will write them an email later.
Nope, I won’t think of watching that video, I know all about it and can’t look at it (I’ve seen it once long ago and that was more than I could stand).
Why people have to eat that stuff boggles my mind, it’s decadent and disgusting (because of how they abuse the birds).
I wish you both a good protest, I’m looking forward to hearing about it.
Flap, my favorite activist! Although I believe all forms of animal abuse are equally barbaric in principle, Foie gras is the correct place to begin resistance (as it is the most transparently cruel, and thus is the most effective grounds for consciousness raising).
Thanks, Flapper, for your community service. I really enjoy your blog and will do whatever I can to protect ducks, and other beings, wherever I can.
I sent a polite little email asking them to please remove it from their offerings.
I wrote to Lark and signed the manifesto. I can’t even read the details on foie gras production that are given on the Humane Society’s website. It’s too painful.
Go Flappy, go!
Looking forward to seeing pics of the Flaptivist at the protest.
Go FLapper, Go! When I tell people not to eat foie gras, they come back with.. “well, you eat chicken” and I try to tell them that it’s totally different. I think I’ll send them the video link…
It was quite horrible to wade through those sites for the link to the manifesto but I did it. I feel like throwing up.
Tell em Flapper! It’s hard to believe but there’s silly humans out there that just don’t KNOW.
Full confession (Flapper please forgive me): In my distant past I have eaten Peking Duck, pate, and foie gras. That was because I was unaware and hiding behind the reality of how these foods come to appear on my dinner table.
After reading about the foie gras making process and meeting Mr. Quack Quack, I have not only stopped eating these items, and but have convinced most people with whom I have eaten to do the same. Since then I have also stopped eating meat and started reading Omnivore’s Dilemma, because I feel like a hypocrite for eating the animals I regular feed at the local cooperative extension farms.
Hurray, Flapper and Tiff, for making all of us aware and responsible for what we put in our mouths.
i know i CAN’T even watch that video. the description conjures up terrible enough images. the video will kill me.
i emailed Lark just to drop in my voice against foie gras. kudos to you, mr. flapper, and the good peeps who are protesting at the restaurant.