If you have ever loved a bird

[JumbeThePigDuck]

If you have ever loved a chicken, hugged a duck, fed a quail, cared for a goose, or raised a turkey, you appreciate birds, and care about their welfare. Today I will be ranting about a serious bird cruelty issue.

Foie gras. Foie gras is the liver of a duck or goose that had corn shoved down its throat for 17 days before it died. Up to 1 kilogram a day. Yet this diseased liver is somehow sold as a delicacy. Some ducks/geese can’t take this. Their bodies are throw aside, as trash. Upon hatching, ducks are sexed, and the females are thrown into a grinder to be crushed to death. Less than a day old ducklings, killed because some stupid company deems them unprofitable.
Enraged? You can help put an end to this cruel practice. Help me help these following petitions to raise awareness and end foie gras production.

https://www.change.org/p/amazon-stop-torturing-ducks-for-foie-gras
https://www.change.org/p/ban-the-sale-of-foie-gras-in-your-farmers-markets
https://www.change.org/p/ebay-stop-ebay-selling-foie-gras
https://www.change.org/p/irish-restaurants-stop-serving-cruel-foie-gras

(If you find any more serious bird abuse problems, please post them below, I can’t find everything.)

 

[Jennifer Cappi Williams]

I don't eat meat, use feathers, or even eat the eggs from my birds. They are my babies...

 

[Jennifer Cappi Williams]

Don't forget about down. Most imported down is from places that pluck birds repeatedly. Just pulling ONE feather out hurts them severely...

 

[JumbeThePigDuck]

Don't forget about down. Most imported down is from places that pluck birds repeatedly. Just pulling ONE feather out hurts them severely...

But what about when they molt? Do you use their feathers then?

 

[Jennifer Cappi Williams]

No commercial "down factory" would every wait around for that to happen. It would be different if it was someone doing it at their own farm and collecting it as they find them.

 

[itsasmallfarm]

while i disagree with foie gras and in fact most factory farming (which is very cruel)

 

[JumbeThePigDuck]

No commercial "down factory" would every wait around for that to happen. It would be different if it was someone doing it at their own farm and collecting it as they find them.

Just did some research off the web, a lot of down comes from dead birds, they pluck the poor souls after they kill them for food. But why don’t you use feathers?

 

[imnukensc]

Feathers do not have anywhere near the insulating quality as down. Kind of like the difference in wrapping yourself in cardboard or a mink coat.

 

[itsasmallfarm]

Feathers do not have anywhere near the insulating quality as down. Kind of like the difference in wrapping yourself in cardboard or a mink coat.

mink has really nice fur though lol

 

[Jennifer Cappi Williams]