Title: V-Day Foie Gras - Pittsburgh
Description:
Valentine’s Day
Protest
Against Nine On Nine Thursday!
In
our last issue of LYnX we told you that there is a local restaurant that
has
recently started selling foie gras again, despite having a prior agreement
with
Voices For Animals to remove it from their menu and to no longer sell
it. That restaurant is Nine On Nine in the
Cultural District Downtown. As you’ll
see from these links, Nine On Nine now offer foie gras on their regular
menu as
well as their bar menu in the form of foie gras burgers:
http://nineonnine.com/mainmenu .pdf
http://nineonnine.com/bar9 %20menu.pdf
A visit to the restaurant
confirmed that this menu is
current and accurate.
We are not going to let
Nine On Nine get away with
this. VFA is now launching a campaign
against them as the next phase of our Foie Gras-Free Pittsburgh campaign,
starting with a protest outside the restaurant on Valentine’s Day,
the busiest
day of the year for the restaurant industry.
Nine On Nine is already booked solid all day on Valentine’s
Day, so let’s
let all their customers and the downtown public know that Nine On Nine is
an
unethical business that doesn’t hold to its agreements and is now
supporting the
extremely abusive foie gras industry again.
Since Nine On Nine prides itself on its “French inspired”
cuisine and foie gras, after all, originates from France, our protest is
going to
have a French theme featuring heart shaped signs with French slogans like
“Say
Au Revoir to Foie Gras” and “Vive la
Compassion!” The
protest will be at 7:00 PM and
will last about an hour. We know its
Valentine’s Day and a lot of you have plans, but if you are able to
spare an hour
to come out and speak up for the ducks and geese suffering on foie gras
farms,
it would be greatly appreciated. We’ll
have all the signs and literature so you only need to bring yourself and
hopefully
some friends. Let’s help make Nine On
Nine go foie gras-free permanently!
WHERE: Nine On Nine
restaurant, 900 Penn Avenue,
15222, Downtown
WHEN: Thursday, February 14th,
Valentine’s Day, 7:00 PM
Foie gras production is
one of the cruelest and most
egregious forms of factory farming. It literally means "fatty
liver" and is made by force feeding ducks and geese over a third of
their
weight in food each day through a metal tube. The force-feeding
continues
until the birds' livers are severely enlarged up to ten times their normal
size, creating a serious and painful disease called hepatic
lipidosis.
This literally makes foie gras a disease sold as a delicacy. Force
feeding wreaks such terrible havoc on these birds' bodies that many ducks
are
not able to walk or even stand up properly. Past investigations at
foie
gras farms have revealed conditions of the most horrific nature.
Ducks
were kept in such tight confinement that little room is allowed for any
movement, ducks are denied any water to swim in, and many ducks were
uncovered
who were severely sick or dying from disease, infection, and force-feeding
induced conditions, such as aspiration pneumonia and their stomachs
literally
burst open from being overstuffed with food. An undercover
investigation of Elevages Perigord in Canada revealed appalling abuse
where ducks were kicked and bashed to death by workers, and ducks’
heads were
even ripped off.
Foie gras is so
inherently cruel that over a dozen countries have banned its
production, and in the United States,
the production and sale of foie gras will be made illegal throughout the
state
of California
in 2012. The city of Chicago
has already banned its sale, and other states and cities, such as
Philadelphia, are working
hard to pass similar legislation. Here in Pittsburgh, VFA’s
Foie Gras-Free Pittsburgh
campaign has succeeded in convincing over a dozen restaurants and stores
to
stop selling foie gras since January of 2004.
For more information on
foie gras visit www.stopforcefeeding.com
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Voices for Animals of Western Pennsylvania
Post Office Box 7181
Pittsburgh,
PA 15213
1-877-321-4VFA
voicesforanimals@gmail.com
www.vfa-online.org
www.pghfoiegras.com
www.pefinder.com/shelters /PA360.html
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