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Voices For Animals visits animal abusers on Superbowl Sunday
by Voices For Animals of Western Pennsylania Sunday, Feb. 05, 2006 at 11:09 AM
VoicesForAnimals@gmail.com 1-877-321-4VFA Post Office Box 7181, Pittsburgh, PA 15213

Protestors bring plea for compassion to Laforet owner’s home

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For over a year, Voices For Animals of Western Pennsylvania, as part of their Foie Gras-Free Pittsburgh campaign, has worked tirelessly against the sale of foie gras at the French restaurant Laforet. After dozens of letters, requests for meetings, protests at the Highland Park restaurant, phone calls, videos, and articles highlighting the inherent cruelty of foie gras have been ignored by the owners of Laforet (the Uricchio family), VFA decided to increase the encouragement for Laforet to go foie gras-free by visiting their home.

For an hour, over 20 activists held signs, passed out literature to interested neighbors, and chanted against the Uricchio’s refusal to join the countless of other restaurants who have forgone foie gras on their menu due to the abuse and cruelty ducks and geese experience on foie gras producing factory farms. At the beginning of the demonstration, a Voices for Animals volunteer rang the doorbell and spoke to the wife of Robert Uricchio, Laforet’s owner, explaining to her that VFA will not be going away until foie gras is removed from their restaurant.

Foie gras is the end result of exceptional and profound cruelty to animals. Nearly 500,000 ducks and geese are killed each year in the United States to produce the delicacy foie gras. These intelligent creatures spend their lives stuffed into tiny, feces and vomit-covered cages and pens, and each have a metal pipe rammed down their throat three times per day to have enormous quantities of food forced into their stomachs. So much food is stuffed down their throats that many birds' stomachs literally burst open after being fed, leading to a gruesome death. Denied fresh air, access to the outdoors, and even natural light, the ducks and geese on foie gras farm lead short lives of misery and unnecessary suffering. In fact, foie gras is so inherently cruel that dozens of countries including Poland, the U.K., Switzerland, and most recently Israel have all banned it’s production.

VFA activist Darin Marcus said, “Until Laforet goes foie gras-free we will continue our campaign and work to find creative and effective means of resisting the animal abuse, the Urrichio family finds so appetizing.”

Marcus added, “The best thing anyone can do to stop animal abuse on factory farms is to become vegan. Visit http://www.TryVeg.com for more information.”

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Voices for Animals Protest Foie Gras Sales Outside Laforet Owner\'s Home
by Voices For Animals of Western Pennsylania Sunday, Feb. 05, 2006 at 11:09 AM
VoicesForAnimals@gmail.com 1-877-321-4VFA Post Office Box 7181, Pittsburgh, PA 15213

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