PETA Statement: California’s Foie Gras Ban

For Immediate Release:
January 7, 2019

Contact:
David Perle 202-483-7382

Below, please find a statement from PETA President Ingrid Newkirk concerning the Supreme Court’s rejection of a petition to review California’s foie gras ban, which leaves in effect the 2017 ruling by the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit upholding the law and reinstates the ban:

Today, the food industry has failed to end the ban on the sale of foie gras, which is made from tormented birds’ diseased livers and the production of which late Ninth Circuit Judge Harry Pregerson—one of the members of the three-judge panel who had heard the case in 2017—explicitly stated is “absolutely cruel.” Now that California can enforce this ban, PETA urges diners to blow the whistle on any restaurant that’s caught serving this illegal and hideously produced substance.

PETA’s motto reads, in part, that “animals are not ours to eat.” For more information, visit PETA.org.