Foie Gras Is No Delicacy, It Is Death
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Ban foie gras in the United Stated and protect ducks and geese from being force fed until they die
Imagine being force fed the equivalent of 30 boxes of mac and cheese for a month.
This is the life that foie gras ducks are forced into, with little choice but to submit and die.
Foie gras production involves ducks or geese being intubated with unsanitary and uncomfortable machinery and force fed corn mush for up to a month1.
The sheer mass of the corn mush shoved down the birds throats can be enough to rupture the esophagus, cause internal bleeding, and kill the animal2. Birds have even exploded from this practice.
According to veterinary pathologist Dr. Marianne Heimann, "the liver steatosis caused by 'gavage' is a pathological process that shows itself first by a fatty degeneration of the hepatic cells and then by necrosis. The fatty liver cannot be seen as normal. It is a categorical sign of a state of illness with clinical symptoms3."
Yet, foie gras production continues, the goal is a duck or goose with a liver at least 6 times average size, as indicated by an industry standard. Many more are engorged to 10 times their average size4.
The span of life for animals forced into foie gras production is short, just as they are filled with torture and abuse. The European Scientific Committee on Animal Health and Animal Welfare maintains that constant handling by humans, the damaging and distressing effects of esophageal intubation, and injections of such large volumes of food at one time are each cruel and deadly procedures on their own5.
But it takes all of that and more in foie gras production.
While the U.S. is a major producer of foie gras, it has faced many legal challenges within United States' courts. The current cost of suffering is too great to wait for congressional inspiration6.
Allowing animals to be force fed until they die is a cruel and torturous practice, and needs to stop now. Sign this petition to tell the USDA and the FDA to ban the import and production of foie gras in the United States.
- Claudia Lee, Food Unfolded (4 January 2022), "The Ethics Of Foie Gras."
- The Humane Society of the United States (2012 March), "An HSUS Report: The Welfare of Animals in the Foie Gras Industry."
- NYC Foie Gras, Voters for Animal Rights (2019), "American Chemical Society."
- American Chemical Society (17 November 2011), "The secret of the best foie gras."
- Scientific Committee on Animal Health and Animal Welfare (16 December 1998), "Welfare Aspects of the Production of Foie Gras in Ducks and Geese."
- Hillary Dixler Canavan, Eater (9 January 2015), "The Decade-Long Foie Gras Fight, Explained."
To the USDA and FDA,
Every day, countless ducks and geese are being forcefully fed more than their necks can even handle, some of them left with severe internal bleeding, others with esophagi ruptured, and left dead. The goal is to fatten the birds' livers up to 10 times their average size, ready for foie gras production.
The span of life for animals forced into foie gras production is short, and filled with torture. Constant handling by humans, damaging and distressing effects of esophageal intubation, and injections of such large volumes of food at one time are each cruel and deadly procedures on their own. But foie gras production involves all of that, and more.
With many other animals, such cruel and unusual treatment would be categorically outlawed, for the sake of health. What force feeding doesn't critically injure animals leaves their livers in a state of necrosis, an abnormal state of illness.
There is no reason this practice should be allowed continue in the United States, and to allow it to do so is subsidizing torture worse than any other species of livestock ever faces.
I demand you ban the import and sale of foie gras within the United States immediately.
"Wakati wa kampeni ya ""Food for the Soul"" iliyofanyika katika mji wa New York, Marekani, shirika la Animal Rescue linatoa ombi la kupiga marufuku chakula cha foie gras na kuwalinda bata na bata kutoka kulishwa kwa nguvu hadi wafe, kwa kiasi cha sanduku 30 za makeke na jibini kwa mwezi mmoja." Hii ni maisha ambayo bata wa foie gras hulazimishwa kuishi, wakiwa na chaguo dogo ila kujisalimisha na kufa. Kwa mfano, katika mashamba ya kuoka, bata au bata hufungwa kwa mashine zisizo na usafi na zisizo na urahisi na kulishwa kwa nguvu kwa mchanganyiko wa mahindi kwa muda wa mwezi mmoja. Mchuzi wa mahindi unaopigwa kwenye koo la ndege unaweza kuvunja utumbo wa mnyama, kusababisha kutokwa na damu ndani, na kumuua mnyama huyo. Hata ndege wamepasuka kutokana na zoea hilo. "Mwanamke mmoja anayeitwa Marianne Heymann, ambaye ni mtaalamu wa magonjwa ya wanyama, alisema hivi: ""Ugonjwa wa steatosis ya ini unaosababishwa na 'gage' ni ugonjwa unaojitokeza kwanza kwa kuharibika kwa chembe za ini na kisha kwa kuharibika kwa chembe za ini." Ini lenye mafuta haliwezi kuonwa kuwa la kawaida. Ni ishara ya wazi ya hali ya ugonjwa wenye dalili za kliniki3." Kwa hivyo, kwa sababu ya uzalishaji wa foie gras unaendelea, lengo ni bata au goose na ini angalau mara sita ukubwa wa wastani, kama inavyoonyeshwa na kiwango cha tasnia. Kwa mfano, idadi ya watu walio na ugonjwa wa kifafa ni mara kumi ya idadi yao ya kawaida. Kwa mfano, wanyama wanaolazimishwa kutengeneza foie gras wanaishi maisha mafupi, na wanafanyiwa mateso na kutendewa vibaya. "Kulingana na Kamati ya Sayansi ya Ulaya ya Afya ya Wanyama na Ustawi wa Wanyama, ""kuchukuliwa kwa mara kwa mara na wanadamu, madhara na athari za kusumbua za intubation ya esophageal, na sindano za kiasi kikubwa cha chakula wakati mmoja ni kila moja ya taratibu za ukatili na za mauti.""" Lakini inahitaji yote hayo na mengi zaidi katika utengenezaji wa foie gras. Ingawa nchi ya Marekani ni nchi kubwa ya kutengeneza foie gras, imekabiliwa na changamoto nyingi za kisheria katika mahakama za Marekani. Gharama ya sasa ya mateso ni kubwa sana kusubiri msukumo wa bunge. "Kuruhusu wanyama kulishwa kwa nguvu hadi wafe ni zoea la ukatili na la mateso na linahitaji kukomeshwa sasa hivi.""" "Kujibu ombi hili, ""Tunaomba Serikali ya Marekani na FDA kupiga marufuku uagizaji na uzalishaji wa foie gras nchini Marekani.""" "Claudia Lee, ""Food Unfolded"" (January 4, 2022): ""The Ethics of Foie Gras"" (Utamaduni wa Foie Gras) " "Humain Society of the United States (HUS) ina ripoti ya ""Humain Society of the United States"" (HSUS) inayoonyesha jinsi wanyama wanavyoishi katika sekta ya chakula cha mboga." - NYC Foie Gras, Wapiga kura kwa Haki za Wanyama (2019), "American Chemical Society". "Kama ilivyoelezwa katika jarida la American Chemical Society, ""Ufahamu wa Foie Gras"" ni muhimu sana." "Kama ilivyoelezwa katika Kamati ya Sayansi ya Afya ya Wanyama na Ustawi wa Wanyama (Scientific Committee on Animal Health and Animal Welfare) Desemba 16, 1998, ""Welfare Aspects of the Production of Foie Gras in Ducks and Geese.""" "Hillary Dixler Canavan, ""The Decade-Long Foie Gras Fight, Explained"" (Mwaka wa 2015) " "Kulingana na USDA, ""Kila siku, bata na bata wengi wanalishwa kwa nguvu zaidi kuliko shingo zao zinaweza kushughulikia, baadhi yao wameachwa na kutokwa na damu kali ya ndani, wengine na esophagus iliyovunjika na kuachwa wakiwa wamekufa.""" Lengo ni kuongeza uzito wa ini la ndege hadi mara kumi ya ukubwa wao wa kawaida, tayari kwa ajili ya uzalishaji wa foie gras. Maisha ya wanyama wanaolazimishwa kutengeneza foie gras ni mafupi, na yamejaa mateso. "Kutumia chakula mara kwa mara na wanadamu, madhara na athari za kusumbua za intubation ya esophageal, na sindano za kiasi kikubwa cha chakula kwa wakati mmoja ni kila moja ya taratibu za kikatili na za mauti kwa wenyewe. """ Lakini utengenezaji wa foie gras huhusisha mambo hayo yote, na mengi zaidi. Kwa wanyama wengine wengi, matibabu hayo ya kikatili na yasiyo ya kawaida yangepigwa marufuku kabisa, kwa ajili ya afya. Kwa sababu ya kulazimishwa kulisha, wanyama hawawezi kuharibiwa na ini zao, na kwa sababu ya kulazimishwa kulisha, ini zao huwa na necrosis, hali isiyo ya kawaida ya ugonjwa. Hakuna sababu ya kuruhusu zoea hili kuendelea nchini Marekani, na kuruhusu hilo ni kutoa ruzuku kwa mateso mabaya zaidi kuliko aina nyingine yoyote ya mifugo inayokabiliwa. Ninataka wewe marufuku uagizaji na uuzaji wa foie gras ndani ya Marekani mara moja.