Pledge “banfoiegras”
"I will contact a shop or restaurant in Northern Ireland which sells foie gras and ask them to stop selling this cruel product but only if 20 other local people will do the same."
— Steven Agnew, Green Party animal rights spokesperson (contact)
Deadline to sign up by: 1st January 2009
19 people signed up, 1 more was needed
Country: United Kingdom
Place: Belfast (view map)
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Steven Agnew is the animal welfare spokesperson for the Green Party. Last year he held a protest outside a shop in Belfast city centre which was selling foie gras and debated the subject on the BBC Radio Ulster Talkback programme.
Every year 30 million ducks are forced into cages so small they can’t even stretch their wings. A metal tube is thrust down their throats and vast quantities of food are forcibly pumped into their stomachs. Their livers painfully swell up to 10 times their natural size.
Foie gras is being sold in shops and restaurants all over Northern Ireland, despite the fact that the practice has been outlawed here for several years.
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Steven Agnew, the Pledge Creator, joined by:
- Nicola Cassidy<Enter your name>
- Nicola Clarke
- Mark McCormick
- Spud
- Dr Ephrem Bogues
- Scott Hillen
- Maureen Hillen
- deborah hanna
- philip busby
- Aine Carson
- mark bogues
- Regan Smyth
- JOHN HARDY
- Brian Wilson
- Michelle
- Damian Duffy
- Laura Moore
- kiera busby
- 1 person who did not want to give their name
I was disappointed to receive a reply that didn't even refer to foie gras and simply recommended that I order one of their veggie options!