Twiggy has written an urgent letter
After speaking to the PETA in 2008, Fortnum and Mason said that it would no longer sell foie gras - however, it has recently been discovered that they do in fact still sell the food, in stores and its restaurants.
British icon Twiggy decided that she had to do something about this and sent a letter urging them to remove it from its shelves and stop selling the cruelly produced product.
She sent the letter on the PETA's behalf to the company's managing director Beverley Aspinall, she points out that as a result of public outcry, both Selfridges and Harvey Nichols have stopped selling foie gras in their shops and restuarants.
She writes: "A product so barbaric that its production is banned in the UK ans in more than a dozen other countries. Anyone who has watched PETA's undercover footage of geese and ducks as they are force-fed several times a day via a pipe until their livers swell too many times their normal size cannot fail to be appalled."
Twiggy joins Sir Roger Moore, Steven Berkoff, Jenny Seagrove, Peter Egan, Carley Stenson and the Duchess of Hamilton in joining with the PETA to speak out against the sales of foie gras, which is made from the swelled livers of duck and geese. Production of the French delicacy is illegal in the UK.
Twiggy also writes: "Foie gras has no place on British store shelves or menus, let alone in a shop that so blatantly trades on its British heritage. Times, fashions and tastes change."
The animals which are used in the production of the food have pipes shoved down their throats several times a day to force painfully large amounts of food into their stomachs, eventually causing thier livers to swell to up to 10 times their normal size.
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