Please stop selling foie gras

The issue

Foie-gras is the grossly enlarged liver of a duck or goose and is essentially a disease, marketed as a delicacy.  Birds raised for this 'gourmet' cruelty are force-fed enormous quantities of food through a long metal pipe, three times a day. This process of deliberate and painful overfeeding continues for up to a month by which time the birds' livers have swelled to ten times their normal size. Every year, around a million ducks die during this period of force-feeding.

Foie-gras is not produced in Australia, as its production would contravene existing animal welfare regulations, but sadly it is still perfectly legal to import it.

There is no excuse for an Australian company to profit off the back of extreme animal suffering and something that would be illegal to produce in this country.

Please remove foie-gras from sale and commit to not selling it in the future.  

Please sign and help us achieve another victory in the fight to ban the sale of foie-gras in Australia.  Every signature really does help.  Thanks for your time.

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The issue

Foie-gras is the grossly enlarged liver of a duck or goose and is essentially a disease, marketed as a delicacy.  Birds raised for this 'gourmet' cruelty are force-fed enormous quantities of food through a long metal pipe, three times a day. This process of deliberate and painful overfeeding continues for up to a month by which time the birds' livers have swelled to ten times their normal size. Every year, around a million ducks die during this period of force-feeding.

Foie-gras is not produced in Australia, as its production would contravene existing animal welfare regulations, but sadly it is still perfectly legal to import it.

There is no excuse for an Australian company to profit off the back of extreme animal suffering and something that would be illegal to produce in this country.

Please remove foie-gras from sale and commit to not selling it in the future.  

Please sign and help us achieve another victory in the fight to ban the sale of foie-gras in Australia.  Every signature really does help.  Thanks for your time.

The Decision Makers

Rosalie Gourmet Market
Rosalie Gourmet Market

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Petition created on 16 January 2015