Posted on 10/30/2019 10:13:07 AM PDT by RummyChick
The sale of foie gras looks set to become illegal in New York City with city council members expected to pass a bill on Wednesday that bans the sale of the fattened liver of a duck or goose at restaurants and grocery stores.
Under the bill, vendors and restaurateurs caught selling the French delicacy could be slapped with a $1000 fine and a year behind bars.
Animal welfare advocates have long supported banning the sale of foie gras, claiming the practice of force-feeding a bird by sticking a tube down its throat is inhumane.
However, farmers who produce the specialty food product say that the ducks and geese do not suffer during the fattening process.
Vendors and producers also say the bill could cause trouble for New York state, which is home to many farms that produce foie gras for the US market.
Critics claim up to 400 jobs could be destroyed and that $150 million could be lost annually.
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Maybe they should consider banning veal next...and chickens in cages..
Why can’t they make foie gras out of twigs and grass clippings the way they are everything else these days?
They really should ban Liberals/democRATs/Commies, first.
“Critics claim up to 400 jobs could be destroyed and that $150 million could be lost annually.”
Is that NET, after they hire all the personnel to enforce the law?
Typical Liberal response to an issue:
Conservative: Don’t like what you see on TV? Change the channel.
Liberal: Ban the program.
Conservative: Don’t like plastic straws, don’t use them.
Liberal: Ban their use throughout the state.
Conservative: Don’t think you should buy 32oz drinks, don’t buy them.
Liberals: Ban 32oz drinks. (2 16oz drinks is okay.)
Conservative: Bakery won’t bake a same-sex wedding cake. Find s baker who will.
Liberal: Go to court and force all bakers to bake same-sex wedding cakes, even if it goes against the baker’s religion.
Conservative: Do think fois gras is humane. Don’t buy fois gras.
Liberal: Pass a law that bans it.
Yep, just keep letting the Liberals nibble away at your freedoms.
My store doesn’t carry it. They use duck fois gras
But you can buy it from the French Chief rolling carts.
Save the ducks, slaughter the unborn children. Oh the twisted minds and souls of demented leftists. Eff NY—born and raised there too.
I make poor man’s fois gras....chicken livers.
If a liberal likes something, you better celebrate it or you are some kind of bigot.
Find a way to make fois gras that isn’t cruel! It’s yummy. I love the way the Japanese cook it.
In NY City, ducks have more rights than a human fetus
In California, trees have more rights than a human fetus
Salad bars?
Under the bill, vendors and restaurateurs caught selling -————ALCOHOL-———— could be slapped with a $1000 fine and a year behind bars.
Swell, now we’re gonna have the mob destroying neighborhoods again, terrorizing citizens, and ruling with an iron thumb again as they run illegal foie gras
People down south will be souping up hot rods to run ilelgal goose livers around the back roads-
Eliot Ness will come out of retirement to catch all the ilelgal goose liver runners
I guess it won’t be long before they ban making “high speed, low drag” tape out of ducks too!
They will ban beef and chicken next..
I foresee one heck of an interesting black market.
The schools are a good example of "banning" anything that fits their "plan". Thanks Michelle...for nothing.
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