IDA has learned that the world’s largest cruise lines offers one of the world’s cruelest dishes on the menu. Carnival Cruises serves foie gras on their ships to exotic destinations, but there is nothing exotic about foie gras. French for “fatty liver”; foie gras has long been known as “the delicacy of despair.”

Click here to send an e-mail right now to the President and Food and Beverage Manager of Carnival Cruise Lines.

To produce foie gras, ducks and geese are force fed through long metal pipes continually shoved down their throats. Up to four pounds of grain are pumped into their stomachs two or three times a day. Pipes can puncture the birds’ throats, causing them to bleed to death. The barbaric practice of foie gras production causes the liver to swell to over 10 times its normal size, leaving the birds on the verge of organ failure and death. Many are too ill to even stand.

The violent force-feeding process used on foie gras farms results in a death rate 20 times higher than that on ordinary factory farms. The increased deaths for birds are directly attributed to organ rupture and heart failure. Additionally, birds raised for foie gras must withstand cramped, filthy conditions for the duration of their short, nightmarish lives.

These poor ducks and geese are housed without access to swimming water. To remain healthy, they need to be able to immerse themselves in water. Contact with water on these farms is so limited that the birds cannot adequately clean their nostrils and eyes, which can lead to blindness.

These animals are literally tortured to death for a delicacy appetizer. There is simply no room for this practice in a civilized society, and certainly no room for it on Carnival Cruises.

Make Your Voice Heard—Take Action

Please contact Carnival by mail, e-mail, fax and phone and POLITELY ask that foie gras be removed from all ship dining rooms.

Click this ​link to send an e-mail right now. You can also send letters, fax, and call:

Gerald Cahill, President and CEO, Carnival Cruise Lines
3655 NW 87th Ave
Miami, FL 33178
gcahill@carnival.com

Cheryl Alvarez, Food and Beverage Manager, Carnival Cruise Lines
clvarez@carnival.com

Phone for both: (305) 599-2600 (ask to be connected to Cheryl Alvarez, then call back and ask to be connected to Gerry Cahill. Leave a polite message on their voicemail)

Fax: (305) 471-4700

For more information on foie gras or this campaign, please contact Hope Bohanec: hope@idausa.org or 415-448-0058.

Source: In Defense of Animals