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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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what about halal meat ?

24.08.2010 07:25

total double standards as usual, what about halal methods of slaughter isn`t that cruelty, in these abattoirs animals are not stunned and then have their throats cut, and slowly die in agony

le boucher


Halal meat - not pre-stunned

24.08.2010 08:22

Largest supplier of poultry products in the UK for non pre-stunned is based in the West Midlands.

That's up to 3200 chic chics being turned towards Mecca, with a quick shout of Allahu Akbar (yes, pedants, I know they don't say that) and a slice of the neck and left to bleed to death. But that's okay isn't, that isn't animal cruelty, is it?

 http://salim7860.tripod.com/id17.html

"LINE SPEED 3200 Chickens per Hour"

"Summers Poultry Products Ltd are HMC approved and do 100% non-stunned chicken."

l'abatteur


comments

24.08.2010 15:54

The above comments stink of EDL

Dominic


je deteste les vermine communiste

24.08.2010 16:57

il s vos funerailles

piere dommage


Re Halal

25.08.2010 08:01

I have recently had a very interesting conversation with a Muslim lady who told me that what passes for Halal i.e the mechanised slaughter of hundreds with some token prayer being uttered is nowhere near what it says in the Koran. Halal slaughter is supposed to be instant, by someone highly trained and very competant, consists of one stroke with a very sharp knife, the victim is supposed to be utterly unaware of his or her fate, nor should s/he be transported. Slaughterhouses are not in accordance with her beliefs she explained. She also said that taking a life was a VERY big deal, veganism was discussed. Some Muslims are vegan.
Abbatoirs are theatres of violent abuse, pre stunning is a sop to a squeamish public and ALL slaughter "Halal" or not is nothing short of murder. Neither Muslims or Jews eat pork and pigs often enter the scalding tanks still concious and are literally boiled. A campaign against meat eating in general is far more apt especially as Kosher and Halal meat enters the "normal" food chain from the bits unwanted by Muslims and Jews and very few meat eaters really care about this and after all if they are eating meat from some poor factory farmed chicken why would they suddenly get upset to know that there was no half arsed attempt to plonk that individual's head in an electric current when the murder was committed? In fact the electric current in a tank of water through which many chickens are put through often does not stun them at all but just adds to their pain and terror.

Foie Gras is in a different league entirely and has been banned in the UK for the gross cruelty involved, I think I am right in saying that Foie Gras would not ever be considered Halal. It is great that pressure is being put on those who sell it and good luck to those involved in this campaign.

Lynn Sawyer


Je déteste fascistes racaille d'extrême droite

25.08.2010 13:53

So do us all a favour and fuck off.

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latest

06.09.2010 21:18

Yum Yum in Worcester have now stopped selling frogs legs. Well done to all involved in the campaign.

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