As Special Agent 007, Sir Roger Moore battled against the bad guys in Live and Let Die, A View to a Kill, Octopussy, The Spy Who Loved Me and The Man With the Golden Gun. As a real-life knight of the British Empire and enemy of those who are cruel to animals, he is now battling against foie gras.
Moore has narrated a video in which he points out that foie gras is a disease, not a delicacy.
Why is Moore crying "fowl" over foie gras? Ducks and geese raised for foie gras are abused in ways that would be illegal if dogs or cats were the victims. Foie gras (French for "fatty liver") is produced by cramming pipes down the throats of ducks and geese and force-feeding them until their livers become painfully diseased and enlarged and, in some cases, their organs rupture.
Investigations into foie gras farms in Europe and the United States have all revealed the same thing: sick, dead and dying animals, some with holes in their necks from pipe injuries. An Animal Protection & Rescue League investigation found one farm where ducks with bloody beaks and their wings twisted together were jammed into wire cages. At another farm, birds were dangling by wires as blood spilled from wounds in their necks and onto the live birds beneath them. After being subjected to this constant torture for about a month, ducks and geese are shackled upside-down and their throats are cut.
Foie gras production is so cruel that it is prohibited in the UK, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Luxembourg, Israel, Norway, Poland, Sweden, Switzerland and the Czech Republic. In the US, the sale of foie gras was banned in the city of Chicago last year, and the state of California has passed a law banning the sale and production of foie gras, which will be phased out by 2012. Celebrity chef Wolfgang Puck announced that he will no longer serve foie gras in any of his restaurants. Consumers across the globe have demanded the removal of foie gras from restaurant menus, yet some restaurants continue to sell it.
What You Can Do
Join Sir Roger Moore, PETA and caring people around the world by e-mailing Lord Rooker, Minister for Sustainable Food and Farming and Animal Health using our online petition below and urging him to stop the sale of this "cruel food" today.
