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Ricky Gervais has joined fellow actor Owain Yeoman in the fight to convince British store Fortnum and Mason to remove foie gras from its shelves.

Gervais has written a letter to officials at Fortnum, asking them to stop selling the delicacy that is obtained by forcing ducks and geese to overeat so much their livers swell abnormally.

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“Stolen for Fashion”—Learn More at PETA.org.

An anti-fur ad voiced by singer Pink and actor/comedian Ricky Gervais has won a prestigious award in an advertising competition.

Stolen for Fashion took home the gold medal at the Addy Awards, the largest competition for advertisements.

In the video, the singer and actor play animals who take their skins back from people wearing them as coats and handbags.

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Parents, if you’re having trouble getting your kids to each their fruits and vegetables, don’t fret. They will come around someday. Even if that day comes when they’re almost 50.

Ricky Gervais, who admits he’s not comfortable eating meat as much now that he knows about the conditions animals on farms endure, has finally started eating vegetables.

He’s 49.

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Ricky Gervais would like the National Institutes of Health to return several chimpanzees who were almost retired back to a sanctuary after being moved into a medical research laboratory in Texas.

Gervais was born in England, where licenses for experiments on chimpanzees were banned over a decade ago. Since then, several countries have followed this lead, including New Zealand, the Netherlands, Sweden, Austria and Belgium.

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Several celebrities have inked themselves in temporary color to support a campaign of the Humane Society International to end the sale of animal-tested cosmetics in the UK by 2013.

“It’s upsetting to think that right now thousands of animals are enduring painful tests for cosmetics that could end up being sold on EU shop shelves,” said Leona Lewis. “So I’m sending a plea to EU politicians to have a heart for animals by keeping their promise to ban the sale of animal-tested cosmetics in 2013. If companies can’t sell their products, they’ll stop animal testing, and we’ll be one stop closer to the whole world being cruelty-free.”

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Three British stars are backing a campaign against all forms of hunting as a sport.

Ricky Gervais, Morrissey and Johnny Marr support the League Against Cruel Sports. The league is involved in bringing attention to a variety of hunting involving animals, including bullfighting, dog fighting, greyhound racing and the snaring of animals like foxes and rabbits.

The league is often involved with investigating illegal hunts, campaigning on the legislative level and running sanctuaries designed to protect wildlife in heavily hunted areas.

“Animals are not around just for people to abuse and kill in the name of so-called entertainment and sport, Gervais said. “It’s beyond belief that it actually happens and that certain deluded people get enjoyment from it. I support the League and its campaigns to try and stop cruel sports.”

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Ricky Gervais is throwing himself into another campaign to help animals. The comedian and actor supports the BUAV (British Union Abolition for the Vivisection of Animals) to stop the international trade of monkeys in research.

“Imprisoning monkeys and snatching their babies is a disgusting way to treat other primates”, said Ricky. “Monkeys are highly intelligent beings who feel pain and distress, just like us.”

Perhaps just as tortuous as imprisonment is the way these creatures and taken from the parents in the wild, according to the BUAV site.

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On Wednesday, Catalonia became the first region in Spain to ban bullfighting!

With 68 in favor and 55 against the measure that would make it illegal in the region, animal activists around the world can celebrate a milestone reached in eliminating animal cruelty.

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