College's Christmas Cruelty Taken Off The Menu December 4, 2008

Any reasonable person will agree that it's cruel to stuff ducks and geese with so much food that their livers become enlarged, right? But that's what happens for foie gras! So it's nice to know that one college in the UK decided to stop selling the stuff after consumer pressure. I'll let Sarah tell you more...
-Pulin

I never thought I'd see the day that a college would have foie gras on its menu—well it didn't for long after complaints of cruelty began.

Disappointingly it was at a college in my homeland of Wales. Foie gras was to be served as part of a Christmas menu at Yale College's Rendezvous Restaurant in Wrexham. You can read the full news article here about how the school decided not to sell it!

Foie gras is so cruel that it is illegal to produce in the UK so it has to be imported. It is the diseased liver of ducks or geese, who live in complete misery from the day that they are born until the day they die. After being forced fed by a pipe that is shoved down their throat, they are finally slaughtered once their livers have swollen up to 10 times the normal size.

Why anyone would want to contribute to such unnecessary suffering really is beyond me.

Whilst it seemed relatively easy to convince Yale College not to sell foie gras, unfortunately one of the top department stores here in the UK, Selfridges, notorious for its international designer names, continues to serve such cruelty in its food hall delicatessen.

Please click here to ask Selfridges to stop selling foie gras in its stores.

Compassion is the new fashion!

-Sar

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