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.
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