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Advocates urge Olympic chefs to drop foie gras at the 2024 Games

AnimalEquality.net

Over a month ago, Animal Equality’s global team launched a campaign to remove foie gras from the 2024 Olympic hospitality menu. Foie gras production involves force-feeding ducks and geese multiple times daily until their livers swell up to ten times their natural size.

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Changing the world for ducks and geese used for foie gras

Animal Equality

For over a decade, Animal Equality has been on a global mission to end the force-feeding of ducks and geese for foie gras. Foie gras, French for “fatty liver,” is produced by force-feeding ducks and… Source

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Animal Equality delivers 60,000 signatures to Olympic organizers

AnimalEquality.net

On July 22, just days before the Olympics, Animal Equality intensified its global campaign against foie gras by traveling to Paris. Advocates carried over 60,000 petition signatures, urging the Olympic organizers to remove foie gras from the VIP hospitality menu.

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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

9 editorial “ Justice on the Farm ” describing a “visit to a duck farm in Sullivan County where workers toil through exhausting shifts to force feed poultry for foie gras” encapsulates one of the fundamental problems facing agriculture today: the perpetual chain of exploitation that occurs on many farms.

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On Small Victories

Animal Person

A famous Ottawa restaurant removed foie gras from its menu after being pressured by activists. The removal of foie gras came after "months of nasty, anonymous phone calls, insulting e-mails, and noisy demonstrations outside. restaurants by animal rights activists."

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