Name-change for animal rights campaigner (From Worcester News)
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Name-change for animal rights campaigner
12:15pm Wednesday 7th September 2011 in News
ABI IZZARD: Aka StopFortnumAndMasonFoieGrasCruelty.com
A MALVERN animal rights campaigner has changed her name in a protest against a famous food store’s sale of foie gras.
Abi Izzard, who works for the campaign group PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals Foun-dation), has officially changed her name to StopFortnumAndMasonFoieGrasCruelty.com.
She made the gesture to back the group’s opposition to Fortnum & Mason’s famous foodhall selling foie gras, which involves the force-feeding of geese.
Among those to publically support her campaign is actor Roger Moore.
Comments(49)
Leeolitina
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12:21pm Wed 7 Sep 11
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ostsNewsworthyStorie
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MJI
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12:26pm Wed 7 Sep 11
Eat
Tasty
Animals
Vox populi
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12:39pm Wed 7 Sep 11
dchainandFoieGrasisa
tastytraditionalfren
chdelicacy.com
or
Findsomethingbettert
odo.com
or
animalsbredforfoodwo
uldneverhavehadalife
atallifnobodyatethem
.com
spring to mind...
molecat
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12:50pm Wed 7 Sep 11
Vox populi
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1:01pm Wed 7 Sep 11
mmm pate!
I can't wait to see in the next few years when the growth of meat in a lab becomes commercially viable. It has already been proved possible. This should mean that all those vegetarians who object to meat on cruelty and moral grounds will enjoy tucking in. After you guys....
Maggie Would
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1:28pm Wed 7 Sep 11
Vox populi wrote:That sounds vile. Fake meat?
Love it Molecat!
mmm pate!
I can't wait to see in the next few years when the growth of meat in a lab becomes commercially viable. It has already been proved possible. This should mean that all those vegetarians who object to meat on cruelty and moral grounds will enjoy tucking in. After you guys....
I much prefer my meat on the bone. Gives me something to chew on.
PaulMeUnder
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1:39pm Wed 7 Sep 11
Brooklyn.Moore
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3:13pm Wed 7 Sep 11
oieGrasCruelty.com! That shows some dedication. I've never eaten foie gras and I don't intend to, but I imagine this will make some people think about their choices!
mateo79
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3:17pm Wed 7 Sep 11
LisaJasmin
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3:18pm Wed 7 Sep 11
ruelty.com.
Allan123
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3:25pm Wed 7 Sep 11
oieGrasCruelty.com! if only there were more people like you willing to make a stand we would all be better off!
Foie Gras! yuk! who could possibly find the idea of putting a lump of diseased, swollen liver in their mouth appealing? appalling more like! and the cruelty involved is just wrong – what century is this? I’m behind you all the way, shame on you Fortnum and Mason - shame!!
SplitEndz
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3:28pm Wed 7 Sep 11
sville mom
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3:28pm Wed 7 Sep 11
MissKatie
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3:29pm Wed 7 Sep 11
helenas
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3:30pm Wed 7 Sep 11
murray kelso
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3:35pm Wed 7 Sep 11
Thank you.
.
MK - Digital Editor (never tried foie gras - no intention of doing so)
colours
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3:39pm Wed 7 Sep 11
todo.com" were you referring to this young woman who has taken a stand for something she clearly feels passionately about, or to yourself, giggling for hours over your bile-spotted keyboard?
molecat
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3:41pm Wed 7 Sep 11
If you have an eating disorder (and that's all vegetarianism is - we're all omnivores - veggies are just people with guilt complexes who are in denial about being human) then just suffer in silence and carry on living on leaves and side dishes. The rest of us will continue to eat the tasty food that mother nature and French farmers with funnels and bags of grain have given us.
Dan I Mal
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3:42pm Wed 7 Sep 11
stkittchick
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4:20pm Wed 7 Sep 11
god.n.country
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4:38pm Wed 7 Sep 11
It doesn't matter what you eat - and blaming vegetarians for being 'guilty' or turning their backs on God and what He has provided is a CHEAP insult - the way foie gras is produced is absolutely horrible, and there is no reason for it.
Good on PETA and this young lady.
Maggie Would
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4:45pm Wed 7 Sep 11
I've tried foie gras and pate de foie gras. It's delicious and deliciously unhealthy, but then so are lots of other types of meat and meaty things. I shall contibnue to enjoy all of them (except kebabs).
If you want to be a vegetarian that's just fine but don't force your beliefs on me thank you.
Maggie Would
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4:47pm Wed 7 Sep 11
I wish I'd thought of that. I'd have got all my butcher friends (I have many) to vote.
PaulMeUnder
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4:50pm Wed 7 Sep 11
There are much better ways of getting your opinions heard which don't make you look like a fool to those who may not entirely share your opinion.
I don't think she is going to change anybody's mind with this or even bring the issue anymore out into the open than it already is.
C- must try harder
lindsayabigail
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5:09pm Wed 7 Sep 11
jovialcommonsense
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5:44pm Wed 7 Sep 11
Nowhere does it suggest meat eating is wrong or veggie is the only option.
gemma6
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5:49pm Wed 7 Sep 11
daveusername
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6:27pm Wed 7 Sep 11
This isn't a vegetarian issue. There are many ways to eat meat without resorting to barbaric cruelty. Fortnum and Mason should be ashamed of themselves
PaulMeUnder
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7:14pm Wed 7 Sep 11
PaulMeUnder
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7:15pm Wed 7 Sep 11
molecat
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8:00pm Wed 7 Sep 11
gemma6 wrote:Bless! It is well documented that humans only gained the level of intelligence that modern man (and the occasional modern woman) enjoys today only after our ancestors started consuming sufficient meat protein for the human brain to develop fully.
Good for her for having the courage of her convictions. Vegetarians are merely higher up the evolutionary ladder than those with Palaeolithical diets.
I fear that as each generation of children descended from vegetarians is born, their brains will gradually become smaller and smaller and eventually they will all become so stupid that all they will be capable of doing will be sit around dribbling as they suck on a carrot and point at shiny things.
gemma6
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10:04pm Wed 7 Sep 11
molecat wrote:Hahahaha I knew you wouldn't be able to resist.
gemma6 wrote:Bless! It is well documented that humans only gained the level of intelligence that modern man (and the occasional modern woman) enjoys today only after our ancestors started consuming sufficient meat protein for the human brain to develop fully.
Good for her for having the courage of her convictions. Vegetarians are merely higher up the evolutionary ladder than those with Palaeolithical diets.
I fear that as each generation of children descended from vegetarians is born, their brains will gradually become smaller and smaller and eventually they will all become so stupid that all they will be capable of doing will be sit around dribbling as they suck on a carrot and point at shiny things.
pudniw_gib
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10:07pm Wed 7 Sep 11
PaulMeUnder
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10:37pm Wed 7 Sep 11
pudniw_gib wrote:Eating tortured birds, i will give you that but perhaps you could explain why eating meat is "dumb".
I support her, meat eating is a bit dumb.... eating tortured birds is even dumber.
jameseden
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11:01am Thu 8 Sep 11
rentThatBad.com
That is all
Vox populi
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1:36pm Thu 8 Sep 11
I express an opinion and I get called vile and inhuman - by all those compassionate caring people....A great example of your moral loving high ground guys.
TAKE A LOOK AT THE WORLD - just because you have an opinion doesn't mean it is right and you have no right to inflict it on others. Its called free will.
I like Foie Gras, I have eaten it many times in the Dodorgne. It doesn't make me inhuman or incompassionate and I will not force anyone else to eat it. Your choice but don't preach at me.
I admire your dedication to changing you name. I still think it is a little stupid and will definately look silly on your CV but Its an opinion I express which I am not forcing on you.
Oh and welcome to the forum colours. You maybe somewhat suprised by my age but I suspect yours ends in "teen." I look forward to more of your humourous contributions on here.
Arguments are to be avoided; they are always vulgar and often convincing.
WorriedOfWorcester
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1:42pm Thu 8 Sep 11
MJI wrote:Is that really the best you can do? Every single time there is an article on the internet about PETA some 'bright spark' comes up with this 'funny' slogan as if it is still amusing - after being stated thousands of times.
People
Eat
Tasty
Animals
A bit of originality wouldn't go amiss. Eating tasty animals obviously doesn't increase intelligence! ;-)
WorriedOfWorcester
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2:02pm Thu 8 Sep 11
Vox populi wrote:or how about:
Humansaretopofthefoo
dchainandFoieGrasisa
tastytraditionalfren
chdelicacy.com
or
Findsomethingbettert
odo.com
or
animalsbredforfoodwo
uldneverhavehadalife
atallifnobodyatethem
.com
spring to mind...
IfYouThinkThatHumans
AreTopOfTheFoodChain
ISuggestYouGoToAfric
aAndTellThatToALion.
com
and
IfYouThinkThatItIsBe
tterForASentientBein
gToBeBornAndLiveALif
eOfMiseryAsMostFarmA
nimalsDo,BeforeBeing
SlaughteredAtAnEarly
Age,RatherThanNotBeB
ornAndThereforeNotSu
fferMayISuggestYouTh
inkABitHarder.com
:-)
Seriously, for you to suggest that it is better for any animal (human or otherwise) to live a shortened life of misery and brutality suggests to me that you are unaware of the hidden horrors of factory farming. We don't need to eat meat or animal products - we choose to, because of lack of knowledge about the lives they lead, and/or because of our societal norms, which constantly reinforce the incorrect notion that meat eating is essential for health, or because we are too uncompassionate or lazy to choose to eat or learn to eat a different way.
Right, I'll get me coat. I'm off to change my name to 'I'mGoingToGetSlagge
dOffByTheWorcesterNe
wsCommentatorsNow.co
m' :-)
Vox populi
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6:21pm Thu 8 Sep 11
I am not uncompassionate because I eat meat - that is a rubbish notion!
Busymum2011
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4:36pm Fri 9 Sep 11
M@lvernite
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8:12pm Sat 10 Sep 11
IWillEatWhatIWant.co
m
MJI
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9:22am Mon 12 Sep 11
WorriedOfWorcester wrote:But they are tasty - as to intelligent, I am intelligent enough not to change my name to a silly name and also intelligent enough to work in IT in a senior technical role.
MJI wrote:Is that really the best you can do? Every single time there is an article on the internet about PETA some 'bright spark' comes up with this 'funny' slogan as if it is still amusing - after being stated thousands of times.
People
Eat
Tasty
Animals
A bit of originality wouldn't go amiss. Eating tasty animals obviously doesn't increase intelligence! ;-)
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Looking forwards to a nice roast beef meal tonight - tasty animal indeed!
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And I was sure that was what Peta was.
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Need to keep eaing these animals so they don't go extinct.
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Can't grow veg on the sides of hills either!
Vox populi
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12:07pm Mon 12 Sep 11
M@lvernite wrote:That’s kind of the point. It seems animal rights campaigners often believe their cause is noble enough to push it by any means necessary. Including firebombs and loss of life in the past. Ironically all it does is undermine their own message about cruelty.
Ordinarily I would accept people's views and their right to air them, however there is something underhanded about the way this girl appears to have used multiple usernames to try to manipulate peoples' opinions by trying to sweep them along with the crowd. Rather than trying to persuade my opinion with reasoned debate like an adult, she instead decided to brand me as "some piece of work" on the Gazette website. IWillEatWhatIWant.co m
daned
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11:40am Tue 13 Sep 11
I would suggest that this young lady looks at a few videos showing how animals are slaughtered in accordance with Islamic rituals. Every time she eats supermarket lamb or chicken it will have suffered a disgusting death.
anarchist
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2:33pm Tue 13 Sep 11
M@lvernite
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9:42pm Tue 13 Sep 11
Vox populi wrote:The point would be that the most effective way to promote a cause would be to sufficiently convince enough people to come around to my way of thinking, preferably with reasoned debate rather than bullying and intimidation; take animal rights extremism for instance - I could try to convince animal rights extremists that what they're doing isn't helping anyone and there are better ways to go about getting their message across, even to win around enough unique supporters to sign some kind of petition and presenting it to someone who is in a position to make a real difference. Changing my name by deed poll, producing a petition with, say, 1000 signatures (many of which are my own pseudonyms), and calling anyone who disagrees with my cause 'some piece of work' is only likely to succeed in rubbing people up the wrong way, as it appears to have done on this occasion, judging by the response of the majority of the commentors on this article.
M@lvernite wrote:That’s kind of the point. It seems animal rights campaigners often believe their cause is noble enough to push it by any means necessary. Including firebombs and loss of life in the past. Ironically all it does is undermine their own message about cruelty.
Ordinarily I would accept people's views and their right to air them, however there is something underhanded about the way this girl appears to have used multiple usernames to try to manipulate peoples' opinions by trying to sweep them along with the crowd. Rather than trying to persuade my opinion with reasoned debate like an adult, she instead decided to brand me as "some piece of work" on the Gazette website. IWillEatWhatIWant.co m
Any valid cause should be noble enough to stand up on its own with neither extremism nor multiple pseudonyms.
M@lvernite
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9:47pm Tue 13 Sep 11
Mark WSM
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10:15pm Tue 13 Sep 11
I have known Abi (sorry, stopfortnumandmason.
....) for many years, and she is not an in your face preachy opinionated person, she just knows what she believes and stands up for it. Never trying to force her opinions or views on others, instead simply trying to educate everyone of the facts to make their own decisions.
Do people seriously think that she would have changed her name on a whim, without doing any reasearch? I am 100% sure that she is aware of all the relevant facts concerning the suffering of animals.
To answer the question of M@lvernite, no-one ever said eating meat was "wrong" or "unnatural". What isn't natural is the mechanised industrialised way that humans treat the meat industry. Yes, a lion may rip its prey to pieces, but at least the gazelle was free to roam the savanah in the first place, not force fed growth hormones in a cage barely bigger than its body, sitting in its own filth, slaughtered as soon as it is fat enough to make a profit.
For the record, I eat meat. I have made my choice, but I do not mock others for it. The meat industry is a cruel industry, the sooner people realise that, the better. I guess though that you can all walk around with a guilt free concious as long as you have done your bit buy buying "free range eggs" in your shopping with your foie gras...
New Kid on the Block
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10:51pm Tue 13 Sep 11
I have friends and relatives involved in farming and they all work hard to ensure that the animals in their care have good lives.
I do realise that thereis a sector of the industry where profit comes first and the animals come second. But I dont buy intensively reared meat.
I buy free range meat from a supplier who can tell me where the meat came from. Not an anonymous packet of poor quality meat from the supermarket.
I am also very fond of Venison. This is surely the ultimate free range meat. Reared naturally and killed humanely.
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