When I asked one of the owners, Izzy Yanay, about the lack of a day of rest, he said of the workers: "This notion that they need to rest is completely futile. They don’t like to rest. They want to work seven days."
By BOB HERBERT
Published: June 8, 2009
Ferndale, N.Y....Animal-rights advocates have made a big deal about the way the ducks are force-fed to produce the enormously swollen livers from which the foie gras is made. But I’ve been looking at the plight of the underpaid, overworked and often gruesomely exploited farmworkers who feed and otherwise care for the ducks. Their lives are hard.
Each feeder, for example, is responsible for feeding 200 to 300 (or more) ducks — individually — three times a day. The feeder holds a duck between his or her knees, inserts a tube down the duck’s throat, and uses a motorized funnel to force the feed into the bird. Then on to the next duck, hour after hour, day after day, week after week...
Gratuitous duck-oriented quote:
"Was that you or the duck? Because if that was you, I'm finishing this ride with the duck."
--G. Marx
PETA could care less about the workers
that's clear to me
"This notion that they need
This statement hearkens back to the 19th Century when the president of the Reading Railroad said in response to charges that his company was exploiting and abusing child workers, "They don't mind. They can't even speak English."
rikyrah: On PETA and caring
rikyrah, I really didn't expect to have a follow-up to your comment but here ya go. When you're right, you're right...
PETA STFU
He didn't eat the damn fly.
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