In just 90 days, restaurants and retailers in Chicago will face $500 fines for selling or serving foie gras,
according to the New York Times. The fines are
the result of a ban approved 48 to one yesterday by the Chicago City Council. While California has long term plans that
would ban the rich goose and duck livers several years from now, the Chicago ban makes the Windy City the first in the
nation to put the kybosh on them. Many are opposed to foie gras because of the intensive force feeding of geese and
ducks that its production often requires. While local chefs like Charlie Trotter have already stopped serving foie
gras, Chicago Mayor Richard Daley was quoted in the Chicago Sun-Times, saying: "We have real issues
here in this city ... Let's get some priorities." Slashfood's Nicole Weston also posted about the ban when it was proposed last winter.
4-27-2006 @4:06PM Heather said... So when are they going to start banning intensively reared chickens that can't stand up(since they're bred to grow so fast they can't support their own breast meat) so they sit in their own poo? Or milk from intensively bred cows, or meat from intensively raised cows.
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4-27-2006 @4:29PM Finished.Law.School said... This is stupid. Compared to everything else that legislators should be addressing they are wasting time on this. The animals are going to be killed and consumed - what difference if they are force fed?
I suppose we have all the PETA nutters to thank for this madness...
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4-27-2006 @5:49PM aaron said... I think Mayor Daley's quote must have been shortened or simply misquoted. It should actually read, "We have real issues here in this city...Let's get some priorities, like wasting tax dollars on getting more fat lazy cops on segways."
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11-15-2006 @8:05AM Alex said... "This is stupid. Compared to everything else that legislators should be addressing they are wasting time on this. The animals are going to be killed and consumed - what difference if they are force fed?" - absolutely.
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1-05-2007 @2:10AM farm girl said... How would you feel if someone shoved a gavage tube in your mouth and fed you until they couldn't force anymore in? Overeating is painful. The practice is daily and the animals are in constant pain before their butcher. It should be outlawed nationally. Lets show some respect for the animals who lend their lives to our full bellies.
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