Imagine being trapped in a cage, unable to escape, as someone crammed a metal pipe down your throat. Imagine if an amount of food equaling one third of your body weight was pumped through that pipe, against your will, each and every day. Imagine if it continued until your organs began to rupture, the pain was overwhelming, and you could barely breathe.

Unthinkable as it is, this is the shocking reality for tens of millions of ducks and geese that are tortured and slaughtered every year for the foie gras industry.

Foie gras, marketed as a “gourmet” food, is a product of extreme cruelty to animals. Factory foie gras farms intensively raise ducks and geese in large, enclosed barns. For the last few weeks of their lives, the birds are forced into tiny wire cages, barely larger than their bodies. Every day, farm workers grab the immobilized birds and cram metal pipes down their throats, forcing huge amounts of food into them in seconds.

Birds suffer tremendously during and after the force-feeding process. Their livers quickly swell up to ten times their normal size, and soon the birds can barely stand, walk, or even breathe. They often die when the metal feeding tubes puncture their necks, when their stomachs literally "burst", and when force-feeding overfills them to the point of suffocation.

In Canada, half a million birds are killed for foie gras each year. Global Action Network’s shocking undercover investigation of the largest Canadian foie gras farm revealed horrendous cruelty, including farm workers pulling heads off live birds.

Please take a moment to learn more about the Foie Gras industry, and what you can do to stop it.