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Article: NY Senate Majority Leader Confronts Foie Gras Producer for Abusive Conditions.
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- Telecommunications Weekly
- Article date:
- September 9, 2009
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Senator Pedro Espada confronted the manager of Hudson Valley Foie Gras in person at the farm on Friday, as reported in Wednesday's NY Daily News. To constantly force feed ducks with long metal pipes so their livers painfully expand to over 10 times in size, migrant workers are given little sleep and no days off. Female workers also told of sexual abuse and harassment common at the farm.
The visit comes right after settlement of a class action filed against LaBelle Farm, another foie gras producer in Liberty, for failure to pay minimum wage or overtime, "abysmal working conditions," and "charging its workers an astronomical fee for transportation from Mexico to ...