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VFA Wins Campaign Against Foie Gras at Giant Eagle!
by Voices for Animals of Western PA Sunday, Feb. 25, 2007 at 1:27 AM
voicesforanimals@gmail.com 1-877-321-4VFA P.O. Box 7181, Pittsburgh, PA 15213

VICTORY!!! Giant Eagle Stops Selling Foie Gras!

WE WON!!!! On Friday, February 23, 2007, not a moment too soon before our first scheduled public protest against Giant Eagle, Voices for Animals received notification that Giant Eagle has agreed to stop selling foie gras! Foie gras will no longer be sold at Market District or at any of Giant Eagle’s 230 stores! This is a major victory!

Voices for Animals’ short-lived campaign against Giant Eagle started in the fall of last year, shortly after discovering foie gras being sold at the then new Market District stores. Voices for Animals sent letters and foie gras farm investigation DVD footage to Giant Eagle’s corporate and local store management, posted action alerts encouraging people to contact Giant Eagle, and asked other local and national organizations to write to Giant Eagle and send out an action alert to their members. In fact, after VFA alerted PETA about the sale of foie gras at Giant Eagle, they sent an alert out to their members which resulted in nearly 250,000 emails being sent to Giant Eagle! After receiving no response from Giant Eagle to our calls and letters, VFA planned to launch a public campaign and first public protest against them on Feb. 24th, until receiving word of their decision on the 23rd.

Voices for Animals wants to thank everyone who took the time and effort over the last several months to write letters to Giant Eagle, make phone calls, register complaints to customer service, sent emails, and/or spoke to Giant Eagle’s managers in person. Your action and support has helped to make this important victory possible! Congratulations everyone!

www.vfa-online.org

Reform Now!
by Reform Now! Monday, Feb. 26, 2007 at 2:58 PM

Great.
Now see if you can do something about the absurd prices Giant Eagle charges for food, and the fact that they are %20 more expensive at their Market District stores.
The 'separate but equal' outlook that Giant Eagle shares with the Port Authority, with segregated bus stops and stores a few blocks apart, might be something you could address, too.
All commodities are inherently cruel and violent, and humans, may also be animals, too.

A couple commodities walk into a bar
by C. Tuesday, Feb. 27, 2007 at 2:42 AM

Commodities aren't inherently violent as they don't have independent intent.

MD stuff probably costs more to produce, hence the higher price.

And rich people are into that n'at.

If the stores in da hood were more expensive, I'm sure you'd be complaining about that too.

Dang, I'm in a fowl mood.

Keeping me honest
by Reform Now! Tuesday, Feb. 27, 2007 at 5:27 AM

Sorry. It would be more accurate to state that the acquisition, transport, and distribution of commodities requires cruelty and violence (too redundant)
The packaging for MD stuff may cost more, maybe. I think cardboard is cardboard. The regular items cost 20% more than they do a few blocks up the street.
I'm all for re-appropriation, but for the people who earned it, and not the compulsive gamblers called "shareholders".

I was just hoping to get the plastic shoe (aesthetically and environmentally cruel) / yeast as a condiment (just nasty) set, to consider if capitalism is really worth saving. By acting as a 'market force (segment)' they are sustaining an economic system that doesn't work unless people are brutalized and exploited.