Press Room

Selected news stories.

October 2005: Satya, a magazine of vegetarianism, environmentalism, and animal advocacy. Click here to read the story.
14 September 2005: Chef pulls foie gras off menu because of GourmetCruelty.com’s undercover documentary Delicacy of Despair, reports the Chicago Sun-Times. Click here to read the story.
26 August 2004: Metroland, the alternative newsweekly of New York's capital region. Click here to read the story.
22 September 2003: TIME Magazine speaks to GourmetCruelty.com about the foie gras controversy. Click here to read the story.
17 September 2003: FOX40, out of Sacramento, Calif., aired undercover footage taken by GourmetCruelty.com investigators on the 10:00 p.m. news. The story also featured an interview with a GourmetCruelty.com spokesperson and portrayed the rescue of ducks from these farms in a highly positive light.

Harry and Penhall build up their strength in an underwater treadmill, as seen on Animal Planet’s Sitting Ducks.

17 September 2003: KGO-AM 810 Radio, out of San Francisco, Calif., ran a piece on the horrors of the foie gras industry as uncovered by GourmetCruelty.com. The piece was re-aired throughout the day.
16 September 2003: Dan Noyes and the ABC7 I-Team ran a hard hitting piece of investigative journalism on GourmetCruelty.com’s undercover foie gras investigation and rescue. Click here to read the story.
4 August 2003: the Animal Planet Network aired a half hour episode of the series Pet Story entitled Sitting Ducks. Sitting Ducks follows the saga of Harry and Penhall, two ducks rescued from Hudson Valley Foie Gras by GourmetCruelty.com investigators. Tempering undercover factory farm footage with scenes of Harry and Penhall's road to recovery, Sitting Ducks presents the horrors of the factory farm in a family oriented program. After its inital airing, the show re-aired ten times throughout 2003 and 2004.