Like other animal protection groups, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals has been an outspoken critic of foie gras for years. PETA has protested restaurants that serve the dish and ...

The King's household wrote to the Peta campaign group that foie gras was not bought or served in royal residences. There have been protests about force-feeding used to produce foie gras.

PETA began investigating the American foie gras industry in the '90s and hasn’t stopped protesting sales of the ingredient since, said Amber Canavan, PETA’s Vegan Campaigns project manager.

Newkirk has posed naked while strung up by a meat hook between pig carcasses, and outside Fortnum & Mason with a bloody feeding tube in her mouth to protest foie gras. Her favourite campaign was ...