Morrissey issues open letter urging people to stop eating foie gras

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Ever outspoken, former Smiths frontman Morrissey has penned an open letter asking his fans to stop eating famously extravagant French dish foie gras.

Foie gras is a dish made from the liver of a duck or goose, which Morrissey – and avid vegetarian – has taken a certain disliking to. In the statement released via his semi-official fansite True To You, he applauds Prince Charles’ decision to stop serving the food at his formal gatherings, while turning his sights on the Duchess of Cambridge, Kate Middleton, who he attributes it as a favourite meal of.

“It isn’t nice and you shouldn’t do it,” Moz opens the letter, before continuing: “Foie gras production is illegal in the UK, yet the ever-so-correct Fortnum and Mason have found suppliers in France who will keep their shelves stocked… would you please write to them/contact them and exert pressure on them to stop selling such a savage beyond belief ”product”.”

You can read the entire letter in full beneath:

“It isn’t nice and you shouldn’t do it

Congratulations to Prince Charles for banning foie gras from all his functions.
However, unsurprisingly, this most savage and cruel commodity continues to be the favorite “dish” of smiling mother-to-be Kate Muddleton (from whom, in fact, we expect no less.)
Foie gras production is illegal in the UK, yet the ever-so-correct Fortnum and Mason have found suppliers in France who will keep their shelves stocked – possibly with the hope that smiling Kate will wobble in and place an order for her unborn child.
Since Fortnum and Mason are now the only department store in London who are associated with the pitiless atrocity of foie gras, would you please write to them/contact them and exert pressure on them to stop selling such a savage beyond belief ”product”.

Fortnum and Mason
181 Piccadilly
London W1A 1ER, England

Twitter: @FortnumandMason

http://www.fortnumandmason.com

thank you!

Morrissey
22 May 2013″

[via Pitchfork]