| Award for No Foie Gras Campaign! |
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Toni Brockhoven was presented with a signed copy of Dr Jonathon Balcombe's groundbreaking book 'Pleasureable Kingdom; Animals and the Nature of Feeling Good' at a recent book launch hosted by Compassion in World Farming at the Centre for the Book. The award was an acknowledgement of the work done by No Foie Gras SA to highlight the horrors of Foie Gras and the successes enjoyed by the campaign thus far. This includes recent comment from the Checkers Group. "Checkers takes the matter of humane animal treatment and animal welfare extremely seriously. We find the mistreatment and mismanagement of livestock and poultry in commercial production units as being morally and ethically reprehensible. Since the conditions under which Foie Gras is produced came to our attention, we took the decision to not stock any such products in our business." Dr Balcombe, in South Africa to promote his book, is a leading animal behaviourist and Senior Research Scientist for the Physician's Committee for Responsible Medicine based in Washington DC. He fully supports the No Foie Gras SA campaign. His research has important ethical ramifications for both science and society. |
Toni Brockhoven was presented with a signed copy of Dr Jonathon Balcombe's groundbreaking book 'Pleasureable Kingdom; Animals and the Nature of Feeling Good' at a recent book launch hosted by Compassion in World Farming at the Centre for the Book.