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Get cruelty off the menu in the Midlands

No excuse for animal abuse | 24.08.2010 00:17 | Animal Liberation | Ecology | Birmingham

More cruelty on the menu in the Midlands.



Frog legs are a delicacy in countries like France and Belgium. Most frog legs come from Asian bullfrogs, imported from countries like Indonesia, China and Vietnam.

Some of the imports consist of live frogs, but for the most part it's just the legs. The legs are usually cut off while the frogs are still alive. The rest of their bodies are then tossed aside and left to slowly die.

Help to stop this trade in death. All animal abuse is unnacceptable. Please contact the companies below and ask them to cease their trade in cruelty.

Frogs legs being sold at:

Yum Yum Oriental Foods
1 & 2 Haswell House
St Nicholas Street
Worcester
WR1 1UW
Tel: 01905 23450

Yum Yum get the frogs legs from:

Ruskim Seafoods
Marine House,
Stafford Park 15,
Telford, Shropshire.
TF3 3BB
TEL: 01952 29 33 44
FAX: 01952 29 33 45
EMAIL:  kim@ruskim.co.uk
 http://www.ruskim.eu/products/oriental-specialities/

Foie gras, French for "fatty liver," is made from the grotesquely enlarged livers of male ducks and geese. The birds are kept in tiny wire cages or packed into sheds.

Pipes are repeatedly shoved down the birds' throats, and up to 4 pounds of grain and fat are pumped into their stomachs two or three times every day. The pipes puncture many
birds' throats, sometimes causing the animals to bleed to death.

This cruel procedure causes the birds' livers to become diseased and swell to up to 10 times their normal size. Many birds become too sick to stand up. The birds who survive the force-feeding are killed, and their livers are sold for foie gras.

Please contact the restaurants below and ask them to remove foie gras from their menu.

The Bailiffs House
68 High Street
Bewdley, Worcestershire DY12 2DJ
Tel: 01299 400 100
Email:  contact@bailiffshouse.co.uk
Menu: foie gras, served with Madeira jus

Bellman Cross Inn
Bridgnorth Road,
Shatterford,
Bewdley,
Worcestershire,
DY12 1RN
Tel: 01299 861322
Menu: Chicken and foie gras terrine

Thank you.

No excuse for animal abuse


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  1. what about halal meat ? — le boucher
  2. Halal meat - not pre-stunned — l'abatteur
  3. comments — Dominic
  4. je deteste les vermine communiste — piere dommage
  5. Re Halal — Lynn Sawyer
  6. Je déteste fascistes racaille d'extrême droite — -
  7. latest — X

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