Passion for Compassion

The Process of Ending Force Feeding for Good

If foie gras is a natural process, then there should be no use for the 16 inch steel pipe… right?

Jason Halvorson: Animal Rights Warrior

Ottawa has seen many restaurants drop the foie gras from their menu with the Ottawa Animal Defense League‘s anti-foie gras campaign. Go Jason and friends! Stop the force feeding.

Nathan Runkle: Founder of Mercy for Animals

Nathan founded Mercy for Animals when he was only 15 years old and it is now an national organization with 25 000 supporters. He recently overcame a brutal attack this December that was evidently anti-gay related. But more importantly, Nathan recently orchestrated some extremely effective undercover investigation into egg farming. An interview with him about this mission can be found at:

http://strikingattheroots.wordpress.com/2009/04/03/nathan-runkle-on-the-quality-egg-crackdown/

“The birds at Quality Egg are kept in battery cages that are stacked three tiers high. Each cage, as you know, is the size of a file-cabinet drawer. At this facility, they confine four to six birds per cage, so each bird has less space than a notebook-size piece of paper on which to live. We found birds suffering from broken bones, uterine prolapse, untreated infections. There were birds who were trapped under the wires of their cages, many of them left to die of starvation or dehydration; dead birds left to rot and decompose with birds still producing eggs for human consumption. Our investigator documented 49 separate incidents of live birds being thrown away into trash cans and left to suffer there, sometimes for three days. He also witnessed employees dumping dead birds on top of live birds in trash cans so that these birds were left buried, sometimes two feet under the bodies of dead birds, to suffocate or to be crushed by the corpses.“

We are so fortunate to have Nathan as an animal activist. Compassion for all.