Ingrid E. Newkirk didn't even try to protest being treated in this manner

Mar 22, 2013 15:15 GMT  ·  By

Earlier this week, PETA's current president got tied up to a chair and force-fed through a tube. Despite her being treated in this manner, Ingrid E. Newkirk did nothing to defend herself and simply sat there enduring her ordeal.

Fear not, the animal rights activist didn't really suffer any gruesome psychological and physical traumas as a result of this experience.

This was because her being abused in this manner was no more and no less than a means to protest the practice of torturing geese in order to produce foie gras.

“The protest illustrated what geese endure while they are being raised for the foie gras sold in Fortnum & Mason stores. But in order to replicate fully how foie gras is produced, Ingrid would have had to be force-fed several times a day for weeks until her diseased liver had painfully swelled to up to 10 times its normal size,” PETA explain on their official website.

The protest took place in front of a Fortnum & Mason Piccadilly store, whose business agenda involves selling foie gras imported from France.