Selfridges stops selling foie gras

[helen4morrissey]

Here's some good news. Following Roger Moore's campaign with Peta, Selfridges has stopped selling foie gras! I don't often agree with Peta's tactics, but this is a great result!

More here in English and here in French

Comments

[kirbyish]

No clue what Selfridges is, but who cares? A victory is a victory. :D

[helen4morrissey]

Ah sorry! It's a big Harrods-style department store in the UK.

[blueheron]

I am not convinced that it is a victory. The issue seemed to be all about "suffering" and not about use or exploitation.

People are just going to buy other types of liver pate instead of foie gras, like they do here (where it is possible to buy foie gras still, but it is too expensive for every day consumption).

Maybe I am just cynical, but the problem isn't with the producers, the problem is with the people who create the demand in the first place.

[helen4morrissey]

Yeah, you're right. It is a *small* victory, but every little helps.

[kirbyish]

Also, stuff like this makes me gain some respect for PETA. But will the nonveg*n population hear about it? Probably not, because it didn't involve an immature publicity stunt like plastering leather loving Pam Anderson all over an anti fur ad or boycotting an entire nation.

[amethystrse]

Wow, I had no idea what foie gras was so I googled it. It amazes me what people find as OK (no one on here, I'm talking about those who do these things to the animals). *shudders*

[helen4morrissey]

I kind of wish I'd never heard of foie gras... ignorance is bliss!

[kirbyish]

With that mentality, I wish I'd never heard of factory farms or battery cages or HLS. ;)