WALL OF SHAME

Many restaurants in South Africa continue to serve Foie Gras, with full knowledge of the cruelty it inflicts. Please write to these restaurants and ask them to remove Foie Gras from their menu's.

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Desmond Tutu Quote

If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality.

- Desmond Tutu

Brigitte Bardot Quote

One should not eat foie gras. It is a cruel, inhumane, tradition and, as all traditions synonymous with suffering, it should be ended

- Brigitte Bardot

No Foie Gras South Africa

How much Cruelty can you Swallow

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No Foie Gras SA has a brand new website. For the latest news, campaign updatesand to pledge your support, please visit:

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Imagine you've just eaten an enormous lunch. So enormous that you can hardly move. In fact, you are finding it difficult to breathe. You feel bloated, swollen and in agony. "Why did I do it?, you ask yourself. "Never again!" Now imagine you didn't have the choice. What if, like the geese used to produce foie gras, you were forced to repeat the process time and time again? What if, for the next 16 days, at regular - all too short - intervals, somebody pushed a rigid metal tube down your throat and filled your stomach with food. The pain, discomfort and utter misery you would feel can only be imagined.

Foie Gras is not about pitying the millions of birds that suffer and die, many from suffocation and lacerations of the throat, before slaughter. It is about having our own dignity, recognizing the dignity, sentience and the right to live their own lives of other beings and also being conscious of the terrible human cost that is part of the price paid when making, buying or eating Foie Gras.

For example, one bird is forced to consume between 160 and 210 kgs of corn mush in only three weeks. This defines the worst excesses of human greed and self indulgence of the few for fleeting taste, regardless who may suffer.

40 million birds suffer and die annually on Foie Gras farms. Can you imagine how many starving humans could be fed with more than 840 million kgs of corn each year?

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SA Jewish Report - Foie Gras Article

Foie Gras is available at many local delicatessens and restaurants in South Africa, Foie Gras is singled out world wide due to it defining the worst excesses of human greed and self indulgence of the few for fleeting taste, regardless of the cruel and painful process involved.

To deal casually or cavalierly with the life of an animal is antithetical to Jewish values.

Faizal Sayed
Faizal Sayed Supports No Foie Gras Campaign

I believe in the idea of whatever you do unto others will come back to you somehow.However, I do not restrict this to what man does to man only, but also to what man does to any of the creation.
- Executive Producer & TV Show Host
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Geisha Wok and Noodle Bar Remove Foie Gras

Geisha Wok and Noodle Bar Remove Foie Gras for Gras from their menu's.

Conrad Gallagher conveys that he is in agreement with you on this matter and in light of this we are removing all the Foie Gras dishes from our menu with immediate effect

Taste Magazine - Letter of the Month!

Woolworths Taste Magazine May/June 2008

Letter received from Woolworths Taste:

Dear Toni
Thank you for challenging and enlightening us through your letter regarding our "Good Food Journey" article featuring foi gras.

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Read letter from Toni to Taste.

'PRINCE CHARLES bans foie gras from royal menus.'

Hello Magazine; 11 March 2008(page 94):

"Prince Charles has banned foie gras - the delicacy that is produced by force-feeding ducks or geese to enlarge their livers - from the menus of all of his royal homes. The heir to the throne will also review the royal warrant given to a shop, House of Cheese in Tetbury near his Highgrove home, after the Prince discovered that it sells the delicacy, which is described by opponents as 'torture in a tin'. Production of foie gras is banned in the UK."

Toni receives book from Johnothan Balcombe
Award for No Foie Gras Campaign!

Toni Brockhoven was presented with a signed copy of Dr Jonathon Balcombe's groundbreaking book 'Pleasureable Kingdom; Animals and the Nature of Feeling Good' at a recent book launch hosted by Compassion in World Farming at the Centre for the Book.
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Jo'burg wine show removes Foi Gras from their 50k Bling Pie

Media release received from the Jo'burg Wine Show

READY, STEADY, BID IN THE JO'BURG WINE SHOW CHARITY AUCTION

Excitement is mounting for the charity auction to be hosted by the organisers of The Jo'burg Wine Show with only days to go before online bidding starts on Monday, 5 May. Ten individual portions of the Sexy Duck and Jozi Bling pie will be on auction at www.bidorbuy.co.za at a reserve price of R5000 each to raise funds for the Give Me a Chance trust fund in aid of needy children.

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Wine and Tourism News 2008

What's not good for the goose..... by Graham Howe

I signed the pledge not to eat Foie Gras after speaking to Toni Brokhoven, campaigner for No Foie Gras SA, a lobby that wants to ban the import and sale of a gourmet product involving animal cruelty through forced-feeding.(The production of Foie Gras is apparently banned in SA, but is available as an import) I'm in good company, Archbishop Emerutis Tutu, Nobel Laureate J.M. Coetzee, Major Helen Zille, Achim von Arnim, celebrities, politicians, chefs and restauranteurs have also pledged not to order or serve foie gras.

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	Arch Bishop Desmond Tutu
	The Most Reverend Arch Bishop Desmond Tutu has signed the pledge. Have you? View Pledge

The thinking man must oppose all cruel customs no matter how deeply rooted in tradition and surrounded by a halo. When we have a choice, we must avoid bringing torment and injury into the life of another, even the lowliest creature; to do so is to renounce our manhood and shoulder a guilt which nothing justifies.

- Albert Schweitzer

Colleen McDuling

Read what Colleen McDuling, Animal Behaviourist has to say about Foie Gras

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