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The production of foie gras has been banned in Argentina, Austria, California (USA), Czech Republic, Denmark, England, Finland, Germany, Holland, Italy, Ireland, Israel, Luxembourg, Norway, Poland, Sweden, Switzerland and Turkey. The only European Union countries where it is permitted are Belgium, Bulgaria, France, Hungary and of course => Spain !!!
Now is the time to move forward, show our respect for animals and ban this abhorrent practice.And you can make a difference.There are many of us who believe, as you do, that animals deserve respect.
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**FOIE GRAS (source Wikipedia)
---Physiology and preparation---
Geese and ducks are omnivorous, and, like many birds, have expansive throats allowing them to store large amounts of food, either whole or pre-digested, in the crop, an enlarged portion of the esophagus, while awaiting digestion in the stomach, similar to python feeding. In the wild this dilation allows them to swallow large foodstuffs, such as a whole fish, for a later, long digestion. Wild geese may consume 300 grams of protein and another 800 grams of grasses per day. Farmed geese allowed to graze on carrots adapt to eat 100 grams of protein, but may consume up to 2500 grams of the carrots per day. A wild duck may double its weight in the autumn, storing fat throughout much of its body and especially on the liver, in preparation for winter migration. Force feeding produces a liver that is six to ten times its ordinary size !!! Storage of fat in the liver produces steatosis of the liver cells !
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Main producers:
Today, France is by far the largest producer and consumer of foie gras, though it is produced and consumed worldwide, particularly in other European nations, the United States, and China
Country Production (tons, 2005) % of total
France 18,450 78.5%
Hungary 1,920 8.2%
Bulgaria 1,500 6.4%
United States 340 (2003) 1.4%
Canada 200 (2005) 0.9%
China 1500.6%
Others 940 4.0%
Total 23,500 100%
France is the leading producer and consumer of duck and goose foie gras. In 2005, the country produced 18,450 tonnes of foie gras (78.5% of the world's estimated total production of 23,500 tonnes) of which 96% was duck liver and the rest goose liver. Total French consumption of foie gras was 19,000 tonnes in 2005. Approximately 30,000 people are members of the French foie gras industry, with 90% of them residing in the Périgord (Dordogne), the Midi-Pyrénées régions in the southwest, and Alsace. The European Union recognizes the foie gras produced according to traditional farming methods (label rouge) in southwestern France with a geographical indication of provenance.
Hungary is the world's second-largest foie gras (libamáj) producer and the largest exporter (1,920 tonnes in 2005). France is the principal market for Hungarian foie gras; mainly exported raw. Approximately 30,000 Hungarian goose farmers are dependent on the foie gras industry. French food companies spice, process, and cook the foie gras so it may be sold as a French product in its domestic and export markets.
Bulgaria produced 1,500 tons of foie gras in 2005; Canada also has a thriving foie gras industry. The demand for foie gras in the Far East is such that China has become a sizeable producer.
**Controversy : source " Wikipedia "
Gavage feeding as documented by animal rights and welfare group, GAIA -Voice of the Voiceless
Main article: Foie gras controversy
See also: Force-feeding#Force-feedin
Gavage-based foie gras production is controversial, due to the force feeding procedure, and the possible health consequences of an enlarged liver.[citation needed]
A number of countries and other jurisdictions have laws against force feeding or the sale of foie gras due to how it is traditionally produced. In modern gavage-based foie gras production, force feeding takes place 12–18 days before slaughter. The duck or goose is typically fed a controlled amount of corn mash through a tube inserted in the animal's cuticle-lined esophagus.
Foie gras production has been banned in some nations because of the force-feeding process, including some members of the European Union,.The city of Chicago banned the production and selling of foie gras from 2006 until 2008, when it reversed its decision based on the criticisms that the ban was maneuvered into a larger package that the city council had voted on.
The state of California has also prohibited the production and sale of foie gras, effective 1 July 2012. Violators will receive a $1,000 fine. Some restaurant owners have declared they plan to use a loophole in the new law; if restaurant goers bring in their own foie gras, restaurants may legally prepare and serve it.
Animal rights and welfare groups such as PETA, Viva!, and the Humane Society of the United States contend that foie gras production methods, and force feeding in particular, constitute cruel and inhumane treatment of animals. Specific complaints include livers swollen to many times their normal size, impaired liver function, expansion of the abdomen making it difficult for birds to breathe, death if the force feeding is continued, and scarring of the esophagus[citation needed]. PETA claims that the insertion and removal of the feeding tube scratch the throat and the esophagus, causing irritations and wounds and thus exposing the animal to risk of mortal infections.
Empirical research regarding the health and welfare of the bird during the production of foie gras is limited in quantity and quality.
A recent study demonstrated oral amyloid-A fibril transmissibility which raised food safety issues with consumption of foie gras over "concerns that products such as pâté de foie gras may activate a reactive systemic amyloidosis in susceptible consumers". Foie gras as an amyloid-containing food product hastened the development of amyloidosis. Amyloidosis may be transmissible, akin to the infectious nature of prion-related illnesses. However, a correlation between foie gras consumption and these diseases has not been confirmed.
EU Scientific Committee on Animal Health and Welfare
The report of the European Union's Scientific Committee on Animal Health and Animal Welfare on Welfare Aspects of the Production of Foie Gras in Ducks and Geese, adopted on 16 December 1998, is an 89-page review of studies from several producing countries. It examines several indicators of animal welfare, including physiological indicators, liver pathology, and mortality rate. It strongly concludes that "force feeding, as currently practised, is detrimental to the welfare of the birds."
Members of the committee describe how geese and ducks show "avoidance behaviour indicating aversion for the person who feeds them and the feeding procedure". Although the committee reported that there is no "conclusive" scientific evidence on the aversive nature of force feeding, and that evidence of injury is "small", in their overall recommendations, the committee stated that "the management and housing of the birds used for producing foie gras have a negative impact on their welfare".
Please watch also those videos:
**Ducks are cruelly force fed to produce foie gras which is made from their enlarged livers.
http://youtu.be/
**Cruelty exposed inside Elevages Perigord, Canada's largest foie gras producer. An investigation by Farm Sanctuary and Global Action Network
http://youtu.be/
**Kate Winslet Exposes Foie Gras Cruelty by Peta►http://youtu.be/
**Published on Aug 10, 2012 by PETA Europe The distressing video footage, narrated by PETA's foie gras campaign ambassador, Sir Roger Moore, shows the grim reality for geese whose diseased livers are sold as foie gras ! PLEASE WATCH
http://youtu.be/
**Please watch also inside a farm How Foie Gras Gets Made..In The Hudson Valley farm is at made up of long, low buildings constructed of lumber or corrugated steel, the birds arriving in the farms as baby chickens
Click on Slideshows (pic by pic)and you will see from the begin to the end !
at =>http://
PLEASE READ THE LATEST NEWS ABOUT THE FOIE GRAS INDUSTRIES IN CRUEL CHINA !!
Green Beagle said at the press conference that the process of producing foie gras was similar in terms of cruelty to extracting bile from live bears, a process with which many local members of the public will be more familiar as bear bile is often used in traditional Chinese medicine products.
http://
**AND MORE AT => http://www.vopus.org/en/
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The production of foie gras has been banned in Argentina, Austria, California (USA), Czech Republic, Denmark, England, Finland, Germany, Holland, Italy, Ireland, Israel, Luxembourg, Norway, Poland, Sweden, Switzerland and Turkey. The only European Union countries where it is permitted are Belgium, Bulgaria, France, Hungary and of course => Spain !!!
Now is the time to move forward, show our respect for animals and ban this abhorrent practice.And you can make a difference.There are many of us who believe, as you do, that animals deserve respect.
Sign now and spread word about this investigation to your friends and family so that the suffering of animals is no longer silenced.
**FOIE GRAS (source Wikipedia)
---Physiology and preparation---
Geese and ducks are omnivorous, and, like many birds, have expansive throats allowing them to store large amounts of food, either whole or pre-digested, in the crop, an enlarged portion of the esophagus, while awaiting digestion in the stomach, similar to python feeding. In the wild this dilation allows them to swallow large foodstuffs, such as a whole fish, for a later, long digestion. Wild geese may consume 300 grams of protein and another 800 grams of grasses per day. Farmed geese allowed to graze on carrots adapt to eat 100 grams of protein, but may consume up to 2500 grams of the carrots per day. A wild duck may double its weight in the autumn, storing fat throughout much of its body and especially on the liver, in preparation for winter migration. Force feeding produces a liver that is six to ten times its ordinary size !!! Storage of fat in the liver produces steatosis of the liver cells !
------------------
Main producers:
Today, France is by far the largest producer and consumer of foie gras, though it is produced and consumed worldwide, particularly in other European nations, the United States, and China
Country Production (tons, 2005) % of total
France 18,450 78.5%
Hungary 1,920 8.2%
Bulgaria 1,500 6.4%
United States 340 (2003) 1.4%
Canada 200 (2005) 0.9%
China 1500.6%
Others 940 4.0%
Total 23,500 100%
France is the leading producer and consumer of duck and goose foie gras. In 2005, the country produced 18,450 tonnes of foie gras (78.5% of the world's estimated total production of 23,500 tonnes) of which 96% was duck liver and the rest goose liver. Total French consumption of foie gras was 19,000 tonnes in 2005. Approximately 30,000 people are members of the French foie gras industry, with 90% of them residing in the Périgord (Dordogne), the Midi-Pyrénées régions in the southwest, and Alsace. The European Union recognizes the foie gras produced according to traditional farming methods (label rouge) in southwestern France with a geographical indication of provenance.
Hungary is the world's second-largest foie gras (libamáj) producer and the largest exporter (1,920 tonnes in 2005). France is the principal market for Hungarian foie gras; mainly exported raw. Approximately 30,000 Hungarian goose farmers are dependent on the foie gras industry. French food companies spice, process, and cook the foie gras so it may be sold as a French product in its domestic and export markets.
Bulgaria produced 1,500 tons of foie gras in 2005; Canada also has a thriving foie gras industry. The demand for foie gras in the Far East is such that China has become a sizeable producer.
**Controversy : source " Wikipedia "
Gavage feeding as documented by animal rights and welfare group, GAIA -Voice of the Voiceless
Main article: Foie gras controversy
See also: Force-feeding#Force-feedin
Gavage-based foie gras production is controversial, due to the force feeding procedure, and the possible health consequences of an enlarged liver.[citation needed]
A number of countries and other jurisdictions have laws against force feeding or the sale of foie gras due to how it is traditionally produced. In modern gavage-based foie gras production, force feeding takes place 12–18 days before slaughter. The duck or goose is typically fed a controlled amount of corn mash through a tube inserted in the animal's cuticle-lined esophagus.
Foie gras production has been banned in some nations because of the force-feeding process, including some members of the European Union,.The city of Chicago banned the production and selling of foie gras from 2006 until 2008, when it reversed its decision based on the criticisms that the ban was maneuvered into a larger package that the city council had voted on.
The state of California has also prohibited the production and sale of foie gras, effective 1 July 2012. Violators will receive a $1,000 fine. Some restaurant owners have declared they plan to use a loophole in the new law; if restaurant goers bring in their own foie gras, restaurants may legally prepare and serve it.
Animal rights and welfare groups such as PETA, Viva!, and the Humane Society of the United States contend that foie gras production methods, and force feeding in particular, constitute cruel and inhumane treatment of animals. Specific complaints include livers swollen to many times their normal size, impaired liver function, expansion of the abdomen making it difficult for birds to breathe, death if the force feeding is continued, and scarring of the esophagus[citation needed]. PETA claims that the insertion and removal of the feeding tube scratch the throat and the esophagus, causing irritations and wounds and thus exposing the animal to risk of mortal infections.
Empirical research regarding the health and welfare of the bird during the production of foie gras is limited in quantity and quality.
A recent study demonstrated oral amyloid-A fibril transmissibility which raised food safety issues with consumption of foie gras over "concerns that products such as pâté de foie gras may activate a reactive systemic amyloidosis in susceptible consumers". Foie gras as an amyloid-containing food product hastened the development of amyloidosis. Amyloidosis may be transmissible, akin to the infectious nature of prion-related illnesses. However, a correlation between foie gras consumption and these diseases has not been confirmed.
EU Scientific Committee on Animal Health and Welfare
The report of the European Union's Scientific Committee on Animal Health and Animal Welfare on Welfare Aspects of the Production of Foie Gras in Ducks and Geese, adopted on 16 December 1998, is an 89-page review of studies from several producing countries. It examines several indicators of animal welfare, including physiological indicators, liver pathology, and mortality rate. It strongly concludes that "force feeding, as currently practised, is detrimental to the welfare of the birds."
Members of the committee describe how geese and ducks show "avoidance behaviour indicating aversion for the person who feeds them and the feeding procedure". Although the committee reported that there is no "conclusive" scientific evidence on the aversive nature of force feeding, and that evidence of injury is "small", in their overall recommendations, the committee stated that "the management and housing of the birds used for producing foie gras have a negative impact on their welfare".
Please watch also those videos:
**Ducks are cruelly force fed to produce foie gras which is made from their enlarged livers.
http://youtu.be/
**Cruelty exposed inside Elevages Perigord, Canada's largest foie gras producer. An investigation by Farm Sanctuary and Global Action Network
http://youtu.be/
**Kate Winslet Exposes Foie Gras Cruelty by Peta►http://youtu.be/
**Published on Aug 10, 2012 by PETA Europe The distressing video footage, narrated by PETA's foie gras campaign ambassador, Sir Roger Moore, shows the grim reality for geese whose diseased livers are sold as foie gras ! PLEASE WATCH
http://youtu.be/
**Please watch also inside a farm How Foie Gras Gets Made..In The Hudson Valley farm is at made up of long, low buildings constructed of lumber or corrugated steel, the birds arriving in the farms as baby chickens
Click on Slideshows (pic by pic)and you will see from the begin to the end !
at =>http://
PLEASE READ THE LATEST NEWS ABOUT THE FOIE GRAS INDUSTRIES IN CRUEL CHINA !!
Green Beagle said at the press conference that the process of producing foie gras was similar in terms of cruelty to extracting bile from live bears, a process with which many local members of the public will be more familiar as bear bile is often used in traditional Chinese medicine products.
http://
**AND MORE AT => http://www.vopus.org/en/
Thank You~Tony Zadel - Copyright(©)Afficher la suite
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