Demo and Dinner - Peaceful Foie Gras Rally Followed by Dinner at Hammamori

Please join OCPA and Animal Protection & Rescue League (APRL) in a peaceful protest against foie gras-serving restaurant Marche Moderne in South Coast Plaza. We'll protest from 6:00 to 7:30 pm. After the protest, we’ll have dinner at a restaurant in South Coast Plaza that has taken foie gras off its menu – Hammamori.

We've attempted unsuccessfully to convince Marche Moderne’s management to take foie gras off the menu, but they refuse to even talk to us. Now it's time to explain to their customers that foie gras is cruel, and those who support Marche Moderne support cruelty.

In fact, those who eat foie gras are eating the diseased, unhealthy liver of a duck which is 85% fat, a disgusting prospect in itself.

But it's not just unhealthy for humans. Foie gras is created by forcibly restraining ducks 3 times a day while a rough steel pipe is shoved down their throats to overfeed them and make their livers swell to 10 times normal size. The birds often die during the feeding process from injuries to the stomach or esophagus. Those who don't die experience the same extraordinary pain a human would if force-fed 40 pounds of pasta per day.

The Anti-Foie Gras campaign has resulted in a number of local restaurants removing foie gras from the menus, including Five Feet, the Sky Room, DaVinci's, Mr. A's, Hammamori, French 75, The Winery and Laurel's. Please help us make Orange County foie gras-free.

We have signs and banners. We just need your presence to help the animals.