In a move that signals the end of all foie gras production in Ukraine, the last official foie gras farm in the country will cease to operate at the beginning of September following an announcement by parent company MHP.
The welcome closure of the Snyatynska poultry farm comes after an undercover investigation, published in April of this year by Open Cages, exposing the repugnant conditions geese at the farm endure. The exposé included footage of workers force-feeding birds by thrusting metal pipes greased with engine oil down their throats, leaving piles of dead and injured geese to slowly die and decompose, and callously flinging birds into cages.
After the horrific footage was made public, many top-class restaurants in the UK, including Michelin Star establishments, removed foie gras from their menus.
Poultry producer MHP finally decided to close the farm, saying that “the production of foie gras is not consistent with the company’s strategy and policy of being a global leader in E&S and Animal Welfare.”
“MHP, the parent company of a leading international agro-industrial group with headquarters in Ukraine, today announces its decision to cease production of goose meat and foie gras at its Snyatynska poultry farm by the beginning of September 2019,” the company wrote in a statement on its website.
“It’s hard to believe that foie gras even exists. Force-feeding animals until their liver swells 10 times bigger is simply barbaric, and the product’s ‘luxury’ label is almost laughable,” Connor Jackson, CEO of Open Cages, said in a statement.
“We are absolutely thrilled to see this company choose to stand against needless suffering by shutting down. Any UK restaurants still serving foie gras will be taking a hard look in the mirror: animal cruelty is bad business,” he added.
The animal protection organization is now calling for the UK Government to ban all imports and sale of foie gras in the country.
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boycott all foie gras & all animal cruelty
And go vegan. It is the very best thing you can do for the planet, for the animals & for your health.
HOOOOOORAY!!!!!
Noticed it didn’t say what happened to the geese after it closes
Some encouraging words but to the state that the abuse has carried on for nothing can remove the horror that these poor birds endured – of course again at the hands of humans. Why not stick metal pipes down your throats – actually why not let us do that for you so you can honestly feel the torture – you rotten bastards deserve nothing better. May you all rot in hell for the rest of your days. Judgment day will not be good for you bunch of losers.
all the people that have eaten foie gras turns their stomach and they throw up on it
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This is great news! Hopefully this will spread the word and others who practise this cruelty will take note and follow suit.
ALL you have to think of this ugly, cruel foie gras MEANS, that some one is FORCIBLY holding your neck so high & against your will, pouring the substances through your throat while using metal instruments.
Okay now who would want such violently & brutally created so called foie gras be consumed willfully knowing that piece of flesh had come from such pains & sufferings of a poor bird.PLEASE STOP THIS MASSIVE BARBARIC METHODS USING ON INNOCENT ANIMALS FOR THE SAKE OF PLEASING THE GREEDY SUBCULTURAL SUBHUMANS PALATE PLEASURE.
This is good.
VICTORY! — there IS a God — I must repeat wise & crucial statement by Connor Jackson, “It’s hard to believe that foie gras even exists — Force-feeding animals until their liver swells 10 times bigger is simply barbaric, and the product’s ‘luxury’ label is almost LAUGHABLE,” Connor Jackson, CEO of Open Cages, said in a statement.” — again, HUGE THANK YOU to all who assisted in SHUTTING DOWN this HELL-HOLE.
Encouraging news. Hope they don’t re-open somewhere else, under different name, with ability to prevent undercover investigation. There is a need for the public to be informed of the practice, It kills the birds, but it seems that there is contamination possibility with the oil they use to force the pipes into the ducks. Further, any food processing that is done in such unclean conditions causes doubt about the cleanliness of the food product. Solution? Stop eating foie gras. Public education may go a long way in ending the consumption & the economics will stop the production. It can’t taste THAT good that one can eat it comfortably with knowledge of the suffering of the ducks and the sanitation of the production facility.
I completely agree.
Personally I am cynical enough to not trust corporations to not re-open under a new name.
We need far reaching, muckraking reporting on these practices as Upton Sinclair’s “The Jungle” opened people’s eyes to corporate greed’s flagrant disregard for ethics.
It may appear a small victory amongst all the horrific acts of cruelty animals receive globally but shutting this place down has saved the lives of hundreds if not thousand of geese from suffering in the future. A reason to rejoice for them but sadly the fight to end animal cruelty never ends.
Very good news! This HOLOCAUST must be shut down all over the world. And the tormentor-bastards should live in cages- feeding them the same way….
Long overdue but well done for finally acting to make this barbaric practise a thing of the past.