[Ingrid Newkirk] In 2013 a PETA investigator visited Palmex INC. outside Montreal.
Palmex is part of rouge, the self-proclaimed number one producer of foie gras.
These gentle ducks are condemned to spend their last weeks before they are slaughtered
in tiny, barren cages.
They can't spread a wing or take even 2 steps.
According to Dr. Antony Pillney, an avian veterinarian, ducks need to be able to move,
walk, stretch, preen, bathe, and exercise.
This housing denies and frustrates the ducks basic biological needs and it is cruel and
inhumane.
These animals feel pain, grief, and loss.
It is unjust to treat them in this way.
Dr. Ian Duncan, world renowned avian welfare expert, notes that ducks are inquisitive social
animals and in the wild spend much of their time exploring their environment.
These birds are also strongly promoted to perform water related activities such as bathing
and swimming.
These behaviors are important, both to satisfy their natural drives and to maintain their
physical health.
Dr. Duncan concludes that individual cages prevent the birds from carrying out natural
behaviors that are essential to their physical and psychological health.
Some of the ducks� bills become cracked and bloodied; as Dr. Pillney notes that any
open wound on a duck that bleeds is painful and causes suffering.
This is the miserable life of ducks who are cruelly force fed twice a day, every day,
all so, that they�re bloated up livers can be sold as foie gras.
Let's end this cruelty.
To learn more visit PETA.org.
Thank you.