Chrissie Hynde: Don’t Get Me Wrong – I Won’t Stand For Cruelty to Geese
Rock legend Chrissie Hynde, lead singer of the Pretenders, is the latest celeb to passionately denounce Fortnum & Mason’s sale of foie gras. In a letter to the shop’s chief executive,Ewan Venters, she writes:
Heaven knows I am not averse to sampling the finer things in life, but I know that there is nothing fine about this product, which is made from the diseased livers of force-fed geese.
I watched footage of foie gras farms, the very farms which supply your distributor, and I saw these birds have pipes shoved down
Fortnum & Mason has had quite a week. Tuesday 
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Swedish siren and former Playboy model 
