Kate Winslet calls for boycott against foie gras

English actress Kate Winslet is unlikely to win any fans in France for her latest film - a documentary made by animal rights campaigners Peta in which she calls for a boycott of pate de foie gras.
 
Winslet narrated the film which shows undercover footage of ducks and geese on French farms being force-fed by having tubes placed down their throats.
 
In it she talks about the "terrifying and painful" experience that birds on foie gras farms endure to produce the world-famous pate. She adds: "Foie gras is sold as an expensive 'delicacy' in some restaurants and shops, but no one pays a higher price for foie gras than the ducks and geese who are abused and killed to make it."
 
She ends the film with an appeal to consumers to boycott the delicacy: "Please join us in helping ducks and geese by pledging never to eat foie gras."
 
Although Winslet, 34, has never been shy about doing her own nude scenes, her method of protest goes against the usual celebrity campaigns run by Peta - People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals - whose 'shock' protests usually involve an actress stripping off in the name of animal rights.
 
Those who have posed for Peta's 'I'd Rather Go Naked Than Wear Fur' campaign include Eva Mendes, Alicia Silverstone, Christina Applegate and Pamela Anderson as well as the supermodel Christy Turlington. Meanwhile The Office's Lucy Davis has 'Bared all to save Bears' (another Peta campaign) and last year Greta Scacchi and Emilia Fox posed nude with a dead cod to promote sustainable fishing. ·