Animal rights activists to rally against Amazon

Amelia Havanec • Feb 6, 2018

Feb 6, 2018

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                <h1>Animal rights activists to rally against Amazon</h1>
                <h2><p>An Amazon foie gras supplier stands accused of animal abuse against ducks, with hidden camera footage detailing the charges being promoted by activist group Mercy for Animals. The images allegedly depict workers force-feeding ducks by shoving metal pipes down their esophageal tubes, a controversial process is made to enlarge duck</p></h2>
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            <p>An Amazon foie gras supplier stands accused of animal abuse against ducks, with <a href="http://www.amazoncruelty.com/?ref=avalancheghost.one">hidden camera</a> footage detailing the charges being promoted by activist group Mercy for Animals. The images allegedly depict workers force-feeding ducks by shoving metal pipes down their esophageal tubes, a controversial process is made to enlarge duck livers for human consumption. As they have at previous Amazon shareholders meetings, <a href="http://www.mercyforanimals.org/?ref=avalancheghost.one">Mercy for Animals</a> is preparing to protest tomorrow demanding Amazon halt all future sales of foie gras.</p><p>Prepping foie gras in this way was banned in California in 2012, a regulation that was recently <a href="http://money.cnn.com/2015/01/08/smallbusiness/foie-gras-california/index.html?ref=avalancheghost.one">overturned this past January</a>. Amazon has already banned sales of the delicacy on its U.K. website, and stopped sales of other controversial products on its U.S. website, including shark fins, whale meat, ivory, snake or crocodile skin.</p>
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An Amazon foie gras supplier stands accused of animal abuse against ducks, with hidden camera footage detailing the charges being promoted by activist group Mercy for Animals. The images allegedly depict workers force-feeding ducks by shoving metal pipes down their esophageal tubes, a controversial process is made to enlarge duck livers for human consumption. As they have at previous Amazon shareholders meetings, Mercy for Animals is preparing to protest tomorrow demanding Amazon halt all future sales of foie gras.

Prepping foie gras in this way was banned in California in 2012, a regulation that was recently overturned this past January. Amazon has already banned sales of the delicacy on its U.K. website, and stopped sales of other controversial products on its U.S. website, including shark fins, whale meat, ivory, snake or crocodile skin.

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By Amelia Havanec

Amelia Havanec is Crosscut's Science and Tech Fellow. She came to Washington from her home state of Connecticut by way of New York, Florida, California and Michigan in pursuit of the perfect pint. Sh