Duck protest held on New Haven Green
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October 10, 2003 | News
Duck protest held on New Haven Green
Visitors to the New Haven Green on Sat., Oct. 4, may
have run into a gaggle of protestors wearing signs with slogans such as
"Force-Feeding Ducks Sucks."
IAN FERGUSON/YH
About 20 people gathered around a tent at the corner of
College and Chapel Street Saturday afternoon, informing passersby via
pamphlets and large signboards about the force-feeding of ducks and geese
involved in the production of foie gras.
The protest was organized by The Ducks' Voice, an
Internet-based group which coordinates word-of-mouth campaigns in an effort
to prevent restaurants from selling foie gras and end duck force-feeding.
New Haven was chosen as the site of the protest because a member of the
website, Kim Turner, is a city resident concerned with the number of
restaurants on Chapel Street (citing Zinc, Roomba, and Union League Caf�)
who sell foie gras on their regular menu.
Several Yale students participated in the protest,
including Shareen Joshi, GRD '05, the author of a Thurs., Sept. 25 editorial
on the issue. "In the United States, animal rights groups have had less
support, and perhaps more ridicule, than some other parts of the globe," she
said. "The responses to the article [about the treatment of ducks in the
production of foie gras]...were awesome, and that was good news."
Joshi continued, "The big question people ask is why
foie gras? Why ducks? My response is that even in light of the fact that
meat-eating and factory farming is completely legitimized, the production of
foie gras stands out as
particularly appalling."
-Maureen Miller
Opinion Editors
[email protected]
Please send emails expressing the cruelty involved in
foie gras.
Regarding article :
http://www.yaleherald.com/article.php?Article=2426
thanks
Kim
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