Enjoy your foie gras while you can…
Wednesday, April 26, 2006 19:54Saw this article earlier today. Looks like it’s time to fill up on foie gras.
Chicago City Council bans foie gras
CHICAGO, April 26 (UPI) — The Chicago City Council Wednesday made the “city of big shoulders” the first in the nation to ban the expensive fatty bird liver delicacy foie gras.
Beginning this June, restaurants must stop selling foie gras, which animal rights activists say is produced by inhumane treatment — force-feeding ducks and geese to enlarge their livers 10 times normal size.
“The fact that there are these other issues that are crying out for attention doesn’t mean that we can’t take a bit of time and address this issue as well,” said Alderman Joe Moore, sponsor of the ordinance.
Moore told the Chicago Sun-Times the ban would not cost taxpayers a nickel or affect city services. But Mayor Richard M. Daley said the council should be spending its time on more pressing issues like drug dealing, education, property taxes and corruption rather than deciding what’s on a menu.
More than 100 Illinois restaurants had voluntarily signed pledges to stop selling foie gras.
A ban on the sale of fois gras in the state of California goes into effect in 2012.
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Copyright 2006 by United Press International.
By Pauline (see more of her posts).
Colleen says:
April 26th, 2006 at 11:35 pm
Booo. Although foie gras will never go away completely. You’ll just have to buy it on the D.L. through your dealer, along with your counterfeit Louis Vuitton purses and your weed. Which almost makes it a little more fun ;)
MaxMillion says:
April 28th, 2006 at 9:10 am
Hey, foie gras is a truly decadent treat, but it’s true it entails a ghastly method.
We stopped buying the authentic stuff (French) from the Cheese Store in Bev Hills when I thought about it and realised we were basically eating an animal’s pain and discomfort.
That can’t be healthy, either for the bird nor us!
But then again, who eats foie gras and thinks about — erm — health?!!
Zteve says:
May 1st, 2006 at 10:25 am
Well, it’s like masturbation. I don’t feel quite right about it, but I can’t stop.