Pamela Anderson ruffles French MPs’ feathers in anti-foie gras campaign
PAMELA Anderson was today described as a “turkey stuffed with silicon” after she ruffled feathers in the French parliament.
Pamela Anderson visited Paris' National Assembly to highlight the force-feeding of ducks and geese
The former Baywatch star visited Paris’s National Assembly to urge MPs to ban the force-feeding of ducks and geese to make foie gras pate.
But many objected to an unelected Canadian-American celebrity interfering in the democratic process.
Hugues Fourage, spokesman for France’s ruling Socialist party, said: “Pamela Anderson’s visit gets on my nerves and I am fed up with it.
Pamela Anderson's visit gets on my nerves and I am fed up with it
“It is political theatre.”
CPNT – a pressure group which campaigns to protect France’s rural traditions – meanwhile attacked Laurence Abeille, the Ecologist party deputy who invited Ms Anderson, 48. CPNT said Ms Abeille “preferred turkeys stuffed with silicon to good geese stuffed with maize”.
Ms Abeille in turn attacked what she called “shocking sexist, chauvinist, misogynistic comments”.
Many objected to the celebrity interfering in the democratic process
The US actress posing with environmental activist Paul Watson
Pamela with former miss France Delphine Wespiser at the National Assembly
She added that Ms Anderson, who is vegan and eats no animal products, was “strongly committed to us continuing to eat well, without inflicting harm on animals”.
Foie gras or “fattened liver’ is a delicacy enjoyed around the world but particularly in France.
Force-feeding ducks and geese to make it has been banned in several countries, but remains legal there.