Animals: stop forced feeding throughout the EU

“The current production of foie gras in Europe still occurs with practices that are incompatible with the need to protect animal welfare. The barbaric technique of intubation in the crop of geese and ducks is used with the forced administration of feed in order to produce hepatic steatosis in the animal such that the liver reaches the minimum weight, many times higher than normal, established by a regulation community in order to then certify the transformation into foie gras. An inconceivable method, already banned in Italy but legal in some European countries, which must be immediately brought back into a different production scheme, as already happens, naturally and non-coercively, for other animal species bred for food purposes. For this reason, taking up the request of some animal rights associations, as a PD group of the Agriculture Commission of the Chamber we have filed a question to Minister Lollobrigida asking him to support, on behalf of the government, as already done ...