Actress urges French to not eat Foie gras
(19 Jan 2016) RESTRICTION SUMMARY: AP CLIENTS ONLY AP TELEVISION - AP CLIENTS ONLY Paris - 19 January 2016 1. Actress and animal rights activist Pamela Anderson introduced by Green party Member of Parliament Laurence Abeille (yellow jacket) 2. Close of Anderson 3. SOUNDBITE (English) Pamela Anderson, Actress and animal rights activist "Today we need to evolve beyond barbarism and ignorance, and to be blunt, foie gras is simply a diseased liver and that disease is called hepatic steatosis, or fat liver disease. What that means is that these animals are forced to suffer excruciating pain, and diarrhoea, inflammations and injuries throughout their short lives until the day that they are slaughtered. What we see in stores are sterile tins of a product all packaged, neat and pretty masking the reality of what is really inside." 4. Cutaway wide of news conference 5. SOUNDBITE (English) Pamela Anderson, Actress and animal rights activists "So, in my name, in the name of (French actress) Brigitte Bardot, and on behalf of all animal advocates I would like to call on the French deputies to abolish forced feeding and I call on the French people to no longer eat foie gras, a cruel luxury that is the cause of such gross suffering and agony for 80 million birds every year." 6. Various of Anderson with Abeille and animal rights activists STORYLINE: US actress and animal lover Pamela Anderson met politicians and animal rights activists in French Parliament on Tuesday in a bid to persuade France to stop eating the most controversial of delicacies, foie gras. The luxurious delicacy is normally made by force feeding ducks and geese through a process known as 'gavage' - where food is pumped into the birds stomach to engorge its liver. France's Green party member of parliament, Laurence Abeille, is trying to push through legislation in parliament to ban gavage, and Anderson was on hand to offer her support. =========================================================== Clients are reminded: (i) to check the terms of their licence agreements for use of content outside news programming and that further advice and assistance can be obtained from the AP Archive on: Tel +44 (0) 20 7482 7482 Email: info@aparchive.com (ii) they should check with the applicable collecting society in their Territory regarding the clearance of any sound recording or performance included within the AP Television News service (iii) they have editorial responsibility for the use of all and any content included within the AP Television News service and for libel, privacy, compliance and third party rights applicable to their Territory. You can license this story through AP Archive: www.aparchive.com/metadata/youtube/267759de2ed22ce8dc1cca3deb9d35fb Find out more about AP Archive: www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork
