The petition
We, the undersigned, urge all restaurants in Palo Alto, Menlo Park and neighboring towns to end the sale of foie gras, the unnaturally enlarged and diseased liver of force-fed ducks and geese. We believe that foie gras production is inherently cruel.
To produce foie gras, farmers pump corn mush down the throats of ducks or geese through metal pipes, two to three times a day for a period of several weeks. As a result, the birds' livers swell to between six and ten times their natural size. The force-feeding process induces hepatic lipidosis, a pathological condition, and subjects ducks and geese to lameness, choking, scarring, organ rupture, and respiratory disorders. The birds are crammed for much of their lives in small cages, without access to water or sunlight. During the force-feeding period, mortality rates are 10-20 times higher than mortality rates for non-force-fed birds.
Foie gras is a disease, not a delicacy, and it has no place on our city menus.
*In 2004, the California Legislature passed a bill into law that will ban the sale and production of foie gras in California in 2012.
*Foie gras production has been banned in 15 countries, including Germany, Israel, Argentina, and South Africa.
*Many respected restaurants have removed foie gras from their menus, including Charlie Trotter's in Chicago, Chapeau in San Francisco, and Deco in Ventura.
*On April 4, 2009, The San Francisco Board of Supervisors unanimously passed a resolution condemning the cruelty of foie gras and commending city restaurants that don't serve foie gras. In response, Mayor Newsom removed foie gras from the menus of all eight of his PlumpJack restaurants.
The following local restaurants still sell foie gras. Consider giving a brief and polite call asking them to remove cruelty from their menus. (If you know of any unlisted restaurants that serve foie gras please email benjidavidow@gmail.com).
Bistro Elan
448 S California Ave., Palo Alto
(650) 327-0284
Duck Club at Stanford Park Hotel
100 El Camino Real, Menlo Park
(650) 330-2790
Marche Restaurant
898 Santa Cruz Ave., Menlo Park
(650) 324-9092
Shokolaat Restaurant
516 University Ave., Palo Alto
(650) 289-0719
Soleil
625 El Camino Real, Palo Alto
(650) 321-4422
Straits Café
3295 El Camino Real, Palo Alto
(650) 494-7168
For a behind closed doors look inside the foie gras industry, view this investigative footage of all three foie gras farms in the United States, narrated by Sir Roger Moore. http://www.stopforcefeeding.co...
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