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Activists tell big Burrito: Have a Heart-Stop Selling Foie Gras!
by Voices for Animals of Western Pennsylvania
Tuesday, Feb. 14, 2006 at 8:30 PM
voicesforanimals@gmail.com 1-877-321-4VFA P.O. Box 7181 Pittsburgh, PA 15213
Activists from Voices for Animals of Western Pennsylvania protested the sale of foie gras at Eleven restaurant in the Strip District, a big Burrito restaurant, on February 14th, Valentine's Day. In June of 2004, big Burrito made a verbal commitment with Voices for Animals to stop selling foie gras at all their restaurants after VFA representatives met with big Burrito Corporate Chef, Bill Fuller at Eleven. Recently, foie gras has reappeared on the menu at some of their restaurants, including Soba, Casbah, and Eleven. Over twenty activists from Voices for Animals came to Eleven on Valentine's Day, one of the busiest days of the year for the restaurant industry, with signs proclaiming "Make Love, Not Animal Suffering" and "Have a Heart, Stop Selling Foie Gras".
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Activists from Voices for Animals of Western Pennsylvania protested the sale of foie gras at Eleven restaurant in the Strip District, a big Burrito restaurant, on February 14th, Valentine's Day. In June of 2004, big Burrito made a verbal commitment with Voices for Animals to stop selling foie gras at all their restaurants after VFA representatives met with big Burrito Corporate Chef, Bill Fuller at Eleven. Recently, foie gras has reappeared on the menu at some of their restaurants, including Soba, Casbah, and Eleven. Over twenty activists from Voices for Animals came to Eleven on Valentine's Day, one of the busiest days of the year for the restaurant industry, with signs proclaiming "Make Love, Not Animal Suffering" and "Have a Heart, Stop Selling Foie Gras". For three hours the activists handed out literature to customers and people passing by. The group also had footage playing that depicted the cruelties of foie gras production. There was a lot of positive support from the public, as people who stopped to talk agreed that foie gras is produced using unnecessarily cruel methods and also said they would ask the owner to remove it from the menu.
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 farms 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 its production.
VFA Protesters at Eleven Restaurant Entrance
by Voices for Animals of Western Pennsylvania
Tuesday, Feb. 14, 2006 at 8:30 PM
voicesforanimals@gmail.com 1-877-321-4VFA P.O. Box 7181 Pittsburgh, PA 15213
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Eleven Customer Watches Foie Gras Footage
by Voices for Animals of Western Pennsylvania
Tuesday, Feb. 14, 2006 at 8:30 PM
voicesforanimals@gmail.com 1-877-321-4VFA P.O. Box 7181 Pittsburgh, PA 15213
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Voices for Animals placed a display just outside the entrance to Eleven that showed a video containing footage from inside foie gras farms. Many patrons stopped to watch the footage as they left.
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