Foie Gras Fight

Recently in the news for getting slapped with a lawsuit for polluting the Middle Mongaup River, Hudson Valley Foie Gras is in the news again for kicking a senator off its property. New York Senate Majority Leader Pedro Espada Jr. arrived at the controversial foie gras producer eager to learn about the condition that the company’s 110 workers must endure. Marcus Henley, the farm manager, was reported to have screamed profanities at Espada before throwing him off the grounds. Espada claims that the workers are “overworked and underpaid, and their work environment is not even fit for the animals they tend to.”