I am a proud mama tonight! Holly was going to the gym in Whistler and she became aware of a restaurant in the hotel next door to where Sean works, where they had recently added fois gras to the menu. Now for those of you who don't know, fois gras is French for fatty liver. To achieve this, ducks are immobilized and force fed three times per day, four pounds each time. This is the equivelant of you eating 44 pounds of pasta each day. This feeding is managed by jamming a metal pipe down the birds throat and pumping the food in. In a very short time, the young birds can no longer walk, and their liver is grossly enlarged and diseased. Eleven countries around the world have actually banned production of this product because of its extreme cruelty.
So after sitting and thinking about it for 10 or 15 minutes, and becoming more upset as each moment passed, Holly summoned up her courage and went looking for the manager. When she was finally speaking to him, she told him how upset she was by their new addition and that she and her husband would be boycotting the restaurant and encouraging their friends and associates to stay away as well until such time as this item was removed. She said her heart was just pounding but she had to do it. She took a stand against something that she is against and lived to tell the tale. Applause, applause.... thank you, thank you.
Who knows if this restaurant will remove it, they may or may not. But if no one ever said anything, no good thing would ever happen, and bad things would go on and on. We're very proud of you Holly!
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