To highlight the ongoing Nottingham campaign against the sale of foie gras, (the diseased liver of a grossly force fed goose or duck), in support to the imminent vote against foie gras in York, and drawing strength from the successful campaign in Sheffield, supporters of Nottingham Animal Rights held a protest on the opening night of Nottingham's Goose Fair.
It was too good an opportunity to miss - a four meter high goose on one of the busiest road junctions in Nottingham, at the beginning of Nottingham's biggest annual event, the Goose Fair. It was just sitting there begging to give it's support to free it's brothers (for once it is the males that suffer) from the barbarous trade in foie gras.
Although the practice is to cruel to be legally practiced in the UK, ducks and geese on the continent are force fed through pipes to fatten their livers for this supposed 'delicacy'. This can damage their throats and can cause bloating, ulcers and disease.
The protest was held to highlight the campaign by Nottingham Animal Rights to remove foie gras from the small number of unscrupulous restaurants that continue selling it in Nottingham (see below) and in support of colleagues in York who, the next day, would be holding an demonstration in support of vote for a proposed York-city-wide council ban on the product.
The restaurants in Nottingham to whom you should complain over their sale of foie gras are:
French Living
http://www.frenchliving.co.uk
27 King St
Nottingham, NG1 2AY
0115 958 5885
The Living Room
http://www.thelivingroom.co.uk
The Lace Market
7 High Pavement, Nottingham, NG1 1HF
0870 442 2716
Merchants
http://www.lacemarkethotel.co.uk/brasserie.html
29-31 High Pavement, Lace Market, Nottingham, NG1 1HE
0115 958 9898
Sat Bains
http://www.restaurantsatbains.com
Lenton Lane
Trentside, Nottingham, NG7 2SA
0115 986 6566
World Service Restaurant
http://www.worldservicerestaurant.com
Castle Gate
Nottingham, NG1 6AF
0115 847 5587
PLEASE LET US KNOW ABOUT ANY OTHERS.
More on this campaign at:
http://www.myspace.com/nottinghamanimalrights
and
http://www.veggies.org.uk/event.php?ref=1120
Demo as York Council vote on future of foie gras – Thursday October 4th:
https://lists.riseup.net/www/arc/arc-uk/2007-10/msg00000.html
http://york.indymedia.org.uk/node/1270
Previous Indymedia posting:
'Kick foie gras out of Nottingham' demo 20.08.2007
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/nottinghamshire/2007/08/379271.html
More on foie gras:
http://www.viva.org.uk/campaigns/foiegras/index.html
Nottingham Animal Rights meets fortnightly on Thursdays at the Sumac Centre. For details of the next meeting see http://www.veggies.org.uk/event.php?ref=112
Nottingham Animal Rights (NAR) website:
http://www.veggies.org.uk/nar
Join the NAR mailing list at http://lists.riseup.net/www/info/nar
Full UK Animal Rights Calendar:
http://www.veggies.org.uk/arc.php
Official Goose Fair website: http://www.nottinghamgoosefair.co.uk/
Technical note
The pictures were taken in a crappy mobile phone at night under street lighting. They are hopefully good enough to document the demo. Other potential indymedians - don't hesitate - just do it!
Although the practice is to cruel to be legally practiced in the UK, ducks and geese on the continent are force fed through pipes to fatten their livers for this supposed 'delicacy'. This can damage their throats and can cause bloating, ulcers and disease.
The protest was held to highlight the campaign by Nottingham Animal Rights to remove foie gras from the small number of unscrupulous restaurants that continue selling it in Nottingham (see below) and in support of colleagues in York who, the next day, would be holding an demonstration in support of vote for a proposed York-city-wide council ban on the product.
The restaurants in Nottingham to whom you should complain over their sale of foie gras are:
French Living
http://www.frenchliving.co.uk 27 King St
Nottingham, NG1 2AY
0115 958 5885
The Living Room
http://www.thelivingroom.co.uk The Lace Market
7 High Pavement, Nottingham, NG1 1HF
0870 442 2716
Merchants
http://www.lacemarkethotel.co.uk/brasserie.html 29-31 High Pavement, Lace Market, Nottingham, NG1 1HE
0115 958 9898
Sat Bains
http://www.restaurantsatbains.com Lenton Lane
Trentside, Nottingham, NG7 2SA
0115 986 6566
World Service Restaurant
http://www.worldservicerestaurant.com Castle Gate
Nottingham, NG1 6AF
0115 847 5587
PLEASE LET US KNOW ABOUT ANY OTHERS.
More on this campaign at:
http://www.myspace.com/nottinghamanimalrights and
http://www.veggies.org.uk/event.php?ref=1120 Demo as York Council vote on future of foie gras – Thursday October 4th:
https://lists.riseup.net/www/arc/arc-uk/2007-10/msg00000.html http://york.indymedia.org.uk/node/1270 Previous Indymedia posting:
'Kick foie gras out of Nottingham' demo 20.08.2007
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/nottinghamshire/2007/08/379271.html More on foie gras:
http://www.viva.org.uk/campaigns/foiegras/index.html Nottingham Animal Rights meets fortnightly on Thursdays at the Sumac Centre. For details of the next meeting see
http://www.veggies.org.uk/event.php?ref=112 Nottingham Animal Rights (NAR) website:
http://www.veggies.org.uk/nar Join the NAR mailing list at
http://lists.riseup.net/www/info/nar Full UK Animal Rights Calendar:
http://www.veggies.org.uk/arc.php Official Goose Fair website:
http://www.nottinghamgoosefair.co.uk/ Technical note
The pictures were taken in a crappy mobile phone at night under street lighting. They are hopefully good enough to document the demo. Other potential indymedians - don't hesitate - just do it!
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04.10.2007 18:21
here's the email addresses i could find
rich
E-mail them.
04.10.2007 21:50
and expect a polite response from Langar Hall:
'There are so many more cruel and nasty things going on to do with food and people that foie gras, which is an old French custom seems less cruel than factory farming of poultry. I was the first restaurant in the area, more than 15 years ago to insist on buying only farm reared happy animals from the locality and quite frankly foie gras has never been an issue since few people even like it.
I have no sympathy with your organisation any more than I have for the smoking ban, health and safety and all those other busy body laws that are so fashionable these days when people have little else to do but interfere in other people's personal lives. If someone loves to eat foie gras,
loves to smoke a cigar, loves caviar, lobsters flown live from Canada suffering weeks of agony that's their choice. How about turning your energies into the apauling suffering in refugee camps or the misery caused to human beings from heroin or child poverty in Rumania etc etc just for a start?
We don't have foie gras on our menu but if someone asked for it specially I would not deny them. Sorry no sympathy since there is so much worse going on that I can do something about. But good luck in your quest and have fun demonstrating against the restaurants on a busy night..If you come to Langar meet up at the Unicorn Pub and spend a little money there to help a local Inn which are having hard times.
Imogen
(Manager, Langar Hall)
Bee