Six Restaurants Drop Foie Gras as MARN Campaign Kicks Off

Midlands Animal Rights Network (MARN) | 23.12.2011 17:42 | Animal Liberation | Birmingham

Foie gras is a product of extreme animal cruelty, produced by caging birds and forcing large amounts of grain into their stomachs.

This week the Midlands Animal Rights Network (MARN) have kicked off a campaign to rid the region of foie gras.

Ducks and geese on foie gras farms are caged, unable to spread their winds nor have access to water. On a daily basis huge amounts of grain are pumped into their stomachs via pipes - this in turn creates a diseases liver sold as this sick 'delicacy'.

In the past three days six restaurants, hotels and deli's across the Midlands have agreed to stop selling and serving this barbaric product.

* The Talbot Hotel - Northants
* Brandon Hall Hotel – Coventry
* Launays Restaurant – Mansfield
* French Living – Nottingham
* Winster Foods – Chesterfield
* The Royal Oak - Northants

The campaign wages on as part of a national concerted effort to rid the nation of foie gras. Get up, get active and get involved!

Midlands Animal Rights Network (MARN)
e-mail: midlandsarn@yahoo.co.uk
Homepage: www.midlandsar.wordpress.com

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hmm

24.12.2011 01:06

Well, I do see the point. But just pop over the channel to Belgium or France, you'll notice that almost every fancy food place has this kind of pate on the menu. I had a meal in the Ardennes where without even asking for the stuff it was put at the side of the plate - completely normal there, no questions asked, not even advertised. Not sure your tactics are going to work to be quite honest.

Brit

one eye open

24.12.2011 17:11

Three of these places still claim to sell foie gras on their websites. Do a google search and check out their menus (especially the xmas ones).

Just sayin

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MARN often do this

25.12.2011 09:56

MARN and NARN (really the same people) often claim success where none exists.

Take any news from them with a big pinch of salt

SHAC