I have known about the horrors of Foie Gras Ducks for many years now, and think I
can't learn anything new about them. But somehow each time one of the animal-welfare groups sends us an account of their rescued animals -- I always manage to gain
new insights into how cruelly we treat them.
This time Farm
Sanctuary begins their newsletter about finding Monet and Matisse, two foie gras ducks whom they found dropped
off in the dead of night at their New
York Sanctuary.
A mystery of how these two were rescued
and brought to the sanctuary, but indeed they were foie gras ducks because their bills were covered with sores from the
feeding tubes.
These two were very lucky ducks indeed
-- considering that hundreds of thousands of them will never leave the horrible "farms" where they are force-fed huge
amounts of food through large
pipes pushed down their throats.
The writer of this newsletter muses on
how Monet and Matisse must have suffered in that foie gras factory. Yes, I called
it a farm but no way were they living
on a farm. They probably began
"life" there when they were only two or three months old.
Imagine their pain when being grabbed by
the neck and having a pipe inserted down their throats into which huge quantities of food was poured directly into their
esophagus.
Many birds choke and gasp for air, and
many will even die from this cruel process. But as Farm Sanctuary noted -- "Early and
agonized death is just business as
usual in the factory farm industry."
The only saving grace for these
unfortunate foie gras ducks is that they will probably be slaughtered at five months of age. But of course, those five months of life were
sheer hell for them.
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