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Dear Mr. Bezos and Amazon.com Customer Service:
Foie gras is derived from the fatty, diseased livers of ducks and geese. If the birds aren’t deliberately
gorged to the brink of death, there is no “delicacy.” Despite foie gras bans in over a dozen countries and
more than 300 U.S. restaurants, Amazon.com still peddles this byproduct of suffering.
Shockingly, Amazon features foie gras from Elevages Perigord — Canada’s largest producer and the
subject of a 2006-2007 cruelty investigation. In St. Louis de Gonzague, Quebec, a worker filmed ruthless
abuse inside the hatchery, feeding sheds and slaughterhouse. Photographic evidence has been
delivered to Canadian authorities and prosecution against Elevages Perigord is pending.
If Amazon wants my business, it needs to cancel the sale of foie gras. Please make the responsible
decision to remove all foie gras products from your website.
To make foie gras, ducks or geese are attached to a pressurized pump. Several times daily, liquid feed is
shoved 12 inches down their throats via a metal rod (oral gavage). At Elevages Perigord, feeding sheds
house about 1,000 ducks, with seven ducks squeezed into each small cage. According to the former
employee’s verified account, “The notion the ducks enjoyed forced feeding was utterly ridiculous. As
soon as they received a dose, they’d frantically shake their heads, trying to spit out food and often
vomiting… Breathing became very laborious for ducks. During the last few days, most couldn’t lift their
heads and many died.”
At foie gras farms, the pre-slaughter death rate averages 20% higher than other duck factory farms. The
American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals cites documentation from veterinarians that
"the birds' livers become so enlarged, [they]… have literally exploded from these forced feedings. The
results of necropsies on dead birds reveal ruptured livers, throat damage, esophageal trauma, and food
spilling from the dead animal's throat and out of [his] nostrils."
Some ducks never make it to the feeding sheds. Inside hatcheries, day-old ducks are sorted by sex.
Males are de-beaked and de-toed with ordinary scissors. Females, whose vein-encased livers generate
poor quality meat, are discarded in garbage bags and gassed with carbon dioxide or suffocated.
Elevages Perigord’s former worker claims he saw about 1,000 females killed each week.
He also witnessed the crude slaughter of undersized ducks. He saw fellow workers bash ducks’ heads
against concrete posts, step on them and twist their necks. He observed one duck whose head clung to
his neck by a single thread of tissue. “None of the ducks died immediately,” he says. “I’d have to pick
them up, still convulsing, and throw them into garbage bins.”
At the slaughterhouse, ducks pass through an electrical bath to render them unconscious. “I stood
directly in front of this bath,” the one-time worker notes, “and the overwhelming majority of birds missed it
entirely. The slaughterer would grab the upside down duck by his head and puncture his jugular... The
conscious ducks would flap their wings violently, squirm, and thrash about.”
Amazon.com sells foie gras manufactured at this facility. Please stop now.
Thank you,
Jeffrey Bezos, Chairman, President, and CEO
Amazon.com Inc.
1200 12th Ave. South, Suite 1200 • Seattle, WA 98144-2734
ph: 206-266-1000; fax: 206-622-2405
Dear Mr. Bezos and Amazon.com Customer Service:
Foie gras is derived from the fatty, diseased livers of ducks and geese. If the birds aren’t deliberately
gorged to the brink of death, there is no “delicacy.” Despite foie gras bans in over a dozen countries and
more than 300 U.S. restaurants, Amazon.com still peddles this byproduct of suffering.
Shockingly, Amazon features foie gras from Elevages Perigord — Canada’s largest producer and the
subject of a 2006-2007 cruelty investigation. In St. Louis de Gonzague, Quebec, a worker filmed ruthless
abuse inside the hatchery, feeding sheds and slaughterhouse. Photographic evidence has been
delivered to Canadian authorities and prosecution against Elevages Perigord is pending.
If Amazon wants my business, it needs to cancel the sale of foie gras. Please make the responsible
decision to remove all foie gras products from your website.
To make foie gras, ducks or geese are attached to a pressurized pump. Several times daily, liquid feed is
shoved 12 inches down their throats via a metal rod (oral gavage). At Elevages Perigord, feeding sheds
house about 1,000 ducks, with seven ducks squeezed into each small cage. According to the former
employee’s verified account, “The notion the ducks enjoyed forced feeding was utterly ridiculous. As
soon as they received a dose, they’d frantically shake their heads, trying to spit out food and often
vomiting… Breathing became very laborious for ducks. During the last few days, most couldn’t lift their
heads and many died.”
At foie gras farms, the pre-slaughter death rate averages 20% higher than other duck factory farms. The
American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals cites documentation from veterinarians that
"the birds' livers become so enlarged, [they]… have literally exploded from these forced feedings. The
results of necropsies on dead birds reveal ruptured livers, throat damage, esophageal trauma, and food
spilling from the dead animal's throat and out of [his] nostrils."
Some ducks never make it to the feeding sheds. Inside hatcheries, day-old ducks are sorted by sex.
Males are de-beaked and de-toed with ordinary scissors. Females, whose vein-encased livers generate
poor quality meat, are discarded in garbage bags and gassed with carbon dioxide or suffocated.
Elevages Perigord’s former worker claims he saw about 1,000 females killed each week.
He also witnessed the crude slaughter of undersized ducks. He saw fellow workers bash ducks’ heads
against concrete posts, step on them and twist their necks. He observed one duck whose head clung to
his neck by a single thread of tissue. “None of the ducks died immediately,” he says. “I’d have to pick
them up, still convulsing, and throw them into garbage bins.”
At the slaughterhouse, ducks pass through an electrical bath to render them unconscious. “I stood
directly in front of this bath,” the one-time worker notes, “and the overwhelming majority of birds missed it
entirely. The slaughterer would grab the upside down duck by his head and puncture his jugular... The
conscious ducks would flap their wings violently, squirm, and thrash about.”
Amazon.com sells foie gras manufactured at this facility. Please stop now.
Thank you,