Birmingham Animal Rights Collective have been holding peaceful, legal protests outside Opus Restaurant for approximately two months, after the management at Opus refused to consider removing foie gras from the menu.

Opus seemed to be trying to ignore the protests, hoping they would go away, perhaps they didn't seem to realize that this is an important cause and that there is no justification for the cruelty that is funded by the sale of foie gras.

However, after a long string of successful demonstrations, an email received today read as follows:

"CONGRATULATIONS

We have removed from our menu!

Opus Restaurant
54 Cornwall Street
Birmingham
B3 2DE
0121 200 2323

Irene Allan"

Well done to Opus for seeing the light and deciding to remove this, whatever their reasoning. We encourage other restaurants to follow suit and recognize foie gras for the extremely cruel and unnecessary dish it is.

The initial push with the campaign takes an educational angle, the methods by which the so called "delicacy" is produced are shown and explained with hope that restaurateurs will remove it from the menu because of the cruel production methods involved.

The British Government banned Foie Gras production in the UK as the methods contravened existing animal welfare laws, yet some restaurants still import and serve it.

The campaign will continue to name and shame all those still supporting the extreme animal cruelty behind this so called "delicacy".

For further information, if you would like to help us make Birmingham a Foie Gras Free Zone, or for information about what is wrong with foie gras please feel free to contact us or visit the website below.