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November 19, 2022
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David Perle 202-483-7382
Washington – Forward of the annual presidential turkey “pardon,” PETA despatched a letter right this moment to President Biden, asking him to additionally lengthen some mercy to geese and geese by banning foie gras—produced by force-feeding birds till their livers turn out to be swollen—from the White Home, as King Charles simply did from all royal residences.
“If King Charles can ban tormented birds’ diseased livers from Buckingham Palace, we hope President Biden will observe his lead and maintain foie gras out of the White Home,” says PETA President Ingrid Newkirk. “Extending the vacation spirit of giving to geese and geese would set an instance of compassion for the entire nation, and PETA would gladly ship some scrumptious and decadent fake gras for the president and his cooks to pattern.”
Throughout foie gras manufacturing, a number of kilos of fats and grain are pumped into birds’ stomachs every single day by means of tubes shoved down their throats, inflicting their livers to swell to as much as 10 occasions their regular measurement. A PETA investigation right into a foie gras producer in New York discovered {that a} single employee was anticipated to force-feed 500 birds thrice every day—a tempo that steadily left birds injured—and so many geese died from ruptured organs resulting from overfeeding that employees who killed fewer than 50 birds a month got a bonus. Different investigations into farms within the U.S. and Europe have revealed sick, dying, and useless animals, some with holes of their necks from overfeeding accidents.
Foie gras manufacturing is outlawed in additional than a dozen nations in addition to in California—the place Vice President Kamala Harris, throughout her tenure because the state’s legal professional common, efficiently fended off makes an attempt to reverse the state’s prohibition on the sale of foie gras—and quite a few firms, together with Costco, IKEA, Sam’s Membership, Goal, and Entire Meals, refuse to promote it.
PETA—whose motto reads, partially, that “animals should not ours to eat,” and which opposes speciesism, a human-supremacist worldview—additionally encourages everybody to rejoice “ThanksVegan.” For extra info, please go to PETA.org or observe the group on Twitter, Fb, or Instagram.
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