Protests Prompt A Menu Change at Posh English Restaurant

by Deidre Woollard (RSS feed)
Feb 24th 2008 at 12:02PM

A particularly violent assault by animal rights protesters have caused a British restaurant to make a menu change. The Animal Liberation Front (ALF) has claimed responsibility for an attack on the Midsummer House in Cambridge that including gluing the restaurant door locks, spraypainting slogans on the walls and damaging the windows with glass etching fluid to protest the restaurant's serving of foie gras. The Michelin-starred restaurant has removed the goose liver delicacy from the menu.

Decanter also reports that the department store group House of Frasier last year banned foie gras sales sales after protests by Advocates for Animals. In the U.S., California will phase out production of foie gras b 2012 and Chicago has banned the delicacy in the city's restaurant. Back in England, the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals last year said that nearly two-thirds of UK consumers polled want the food banned.

Tags: animal rights, foie gras, FoieGras, geese, midsummer house, proteests

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verdegrrl Feb 24th 2008 10:38PM

I hope that the vandals and organization that condones it, face prosecution like any criminal suspects or organization. It's once thing to publicize your preferences, but another to bully or terrorize people.

C.K. Dexter-Haven Feb 25th 2008 1:21PM

Well Said Verdegrrl...

EllaC Feb 25th 2008 5:21PM

verderggrl...
sometimes..the softly softly approach just falls on deaf ears..
bully terrorizse people??..
then pray.. how would you describe the way these poor birds so violently maltreated? it's just a little taste of the medicine for this product that they persist in supporting....
they persist in supporting this ghastly 'delicacy' food by purchasing and selling it in their restaurant konwing FULLY WELL the terrible suffering inflicted on these birds..where their gullets and throats are sometimes punctured by the metal rods thrusts down their throats and FORCE fed..can you imagine the sheer discomfort of having food forced into your stomach when you are full andhave no desire to eat or consume more?..
who are the 'terrorists'here???