Chicago's Foie Gras Ban Going Into Effect

AP - AOL ^ | August 13, 2006 | Don Babwin

[EveningStar]

These are dangerous times for ducks and geese in Chicago. Chicago is banning foie gras, a duck or goose liver delicacy made by force-feeding the animals. Some say it doesn't hurt the animals; others say it is cruel...

[EveningStar]

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[eleni121]

The windy city is getting to be a real blast of hot air.

Ridiculous. Save those geese...but kill those babies.

[GATOR NAVY]

You know it has to be said...

When foie gras is outlawed, only outlaws will have foie gras.

[NautiNurse]

Today foie gras, tomorrow Big Mac & leather shoes. Tyranny prevails while the U.S. Consitution dies.

[EveningStar]

From Wikipedia

Prohibition

Foie gras is illegal in several locations, and legislation is pending in others. In August, 2003, the Supreme Court of Israel declared foie gras production to be animal cruelty, and made production illegal beginning in March, 2005. On September 29, 2004, California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger signed a law that will ban the production or sale of foie gras from force fed birds in the state by 2012. The law would allow foie gras produced by methods that are not considered animal cruelty. Similar legislation is pending in New York. California and New York are currently the only U.S. states with foie gras industries. On April 26, 2006, the city council of Chicago voted to make Chicago the first city in the United States to ban foie gras [8].

Force feeding is prohibited in:

• Argentina
• Austria (six of nine provinces)
• The Czech Republic
• Denmark
• Finland
• Germany
• Ireland
• Israel (2005)
• Italy
• Luxembourg
• The Netherlands
• Norway
• Poland (1999 — was the world's fifth largest producer)
• Sweden
• Switzerland
• The United Kingdom
• United States: California's ban comes into effect in 2012
• United States: Chicago, IL ban effective August 2006 [9]

[ExpatGator]

Boy, that will cut down on their homicide and violent crime rate.

[KarlInOhio]

A new generation of speakeasies will open serving bathtub foie gras. Or maybe Wal Mart will just start selling it in all of their stores opening just across the Chicago boundary line.

[Jaysun]

I've never been able to bring myself to even try foie gras. Not because it's "cruel" but because I'm squeamish when it comes to eating entrails, brains, feet, tongues, and things of the sort.

But it's apparently quite delicious. I'll never know either way. Oh, and to hell with animal rights activist. I'd be willing to try entrails, brains, feet, tongues, and things of the sort just to spite them.

[Jaysun]

A new generation of speakeasies will open serving bathtub foie gras. Or maybe Wal Mart will just start selling it in all of their stores opening just across the Chicago boundary line.

LOL! You'd have to be careful though. Some would undoubtedly feed the geese styrofoam peanuts instead of corn to save a few bucks.

[dalereed]

Anyone that wants to consume what should have been pet food or garbage should have to go overseas to get it.

[P.O.E.]

Usually I disagree with PETA, but in this case I agree the cruel treatment of the ducks and geese is inhumane. Sir Roger Moore (007) does an unsettling video for the cause.

[EveningStar]

I wonder how much more inhumane this is than a lot of other such things. I've heard it said that a lot of people would become vegetarians if they ever visited a slaughterhouse or a chicken farm (not the free range kind).

[BigBobber]

An animal is a pretty inefficient way to make meat. We are not to far from the day when meat will be manufactured in factories. "Test Tube" meat. It will be identical to real meat. Then PETA will have to figure out something else to protest.

[Larry Lucido]

I thought we've had test tube meat for a long time now.

[Aggie Mama]

My husband sells flexible film packaging: think packaging for chips, sausage, cookies, coffee..just about anything. One of the first customers he called on was a meat processing plant in Texas. He told me it was pretty amazing how quickly the cattle went from alive to meat. He said it was a bit surreal to see the processing and that he got a bit weak-kneed at one point. I asked him what he had to eat after that experience. His response? Steak.

[BigBobber]

Touche!

[Gabz]

I've heard it said that a lot of people would become vegetarians if they ever visited a slaughterhouse or a chicken farm (not the free range kind).

That's because people have become wimps. Before slaughterhouses most people slaughtered/butchered their own meat and poultry.

I live diagonally across from a chicken farm. Right now it is home to 170,000 Perdue chickens, some of which will end up in my freezer and then on my dining room table (after proper cooking)

[bcsco]

Buy some liverwurst, mix in some onion and a little mayonnaise, maybe a little garlic (but not too much of each added ingredient). You've got Faux Foie Gras.

[Feiny]

My dogs love liverwurst...I can not bring myself to eat it...it smells like it tastes bad. I'd rather have crispy bacon.