A small demonstration was held today in front of the ‘French Products’ stall at the Cambridge city centre market due to its sale of Foie-Gras, a so-called delicacy the production of which commonly involves force-feeding geese by shoving tubes down the animals’ throats. The animals’ liver then swells painfully. With a number of businesses now refusing to sell this product, ‘French Products’ needs to move with the times and end the sale of this unacceptable product.

The stall holder was visibly irritated by the presence of the peaceful protesters, calling them ‘idiots’ and hiding his jars of Foie-Gras. The public, on the whole, however, was brilliantly receptive with one woman even voicing her concerns to the stall holder in French! Hopefully the stall holder will see that Foie-Gras is only a small part of his business and rather than simply lose his trade the sensible option is simply to stop stocking it.

While it is not legal in the UK to force feed birds, the UK government claims they cannot ban its import under international trade rules. No matter what the British public thinks about this abusive product, under current trade rules, it cannot be banned on welfare grounds! To stop this atrocity we need all businesses to stop selling this product.

This is where you come in. Please (politely) ask ‘French Products’ to stop selling Foie-Gras, remind them about the cruelty involved and that stopping the sale of the product would probably be not only the right choice but a commercially valid one as well.

You can contact ‘French Products’ by e-mail and by phone

E-mail  frenchproducts@hotmail.com

Phone 0044-7847213011 (for UK callers, I believe you simply take off ‘0044’ and add ‘0’)
To learn more about Foie-Gras see

 http://www.viva.org.uk/campaigns/foiegras/index.html
 http://www.ciwf.org.uk/campaigns/other_campaigns/exotic_foods.html

To get active for animals in Cambridge check out the website of Animal Rights Cambridge at  http://animalrightscambridge.bravehost.com and come to one of the meetings on the fourth Monday of every month @ The Bath House, just off Mill Road. (£1 hall hire per person)