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Article: Poll Shows New York Consumers Favor Ban on Cruel Practice of Force- Feeding Birds to Produce Foie Gras
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- U.S. Newswire
- Article date:
- March 29, 2005
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WATKINS GLEN, N.Y., March 29 /U.S. Newswire/ -- A new Zogby
International poll shows that four out of five likely voters (78
percent) in the state of New York favor a ban on the force feeding of
ducks or geese to produce foie gras. These results map closely to a
national poll conducted by Zogby in 2004 that found 77 percent of
Americans in support of a ban.
This latest poll comes on the heels of New York Assembly Bill
6212, introduced by Assemblymember John McEneny, that would amend the
state animal cruelty law to make it "unlawful to force feed a bird,
by hand or machine, for the purpose of fatty enlargement of the
bird's liver."
Currently, only two states have operations that produce ...