WHO THE HECK NEEDS FOI GRAS?
Only the elite liberals and Hollyweird stars.
This has implications. Think commercial feedlots. Most poultry, hogs, dairy cows, and steers are “force fed” in commercial livestock operations.
This means little to me, because I’m an omnivore; I eat animals and vegetables, in various combinations. All other humans are the same way. They need both to survive (ever see a “healthy” looking vegan? Neither have I).
So if you like to eat the liver from a bird that was fed until it nearly popped, that’s your own business. Goose and duck too greasy anyway, unless you slow roast them, then they’re good.
I thought that law was already repealed or no longer in effect.
So when are they going to ban halal slaughter by Muslims? They basically torture animals to death. Where are you Humane Society, PETA, judges?
That’s racist against the French! I’m surprised they didn’t pass a ‘meanness to animals act’ and tax (everything) more.
I looked this up, to find the real issue.
It’s interstate commerce. California banned not only the production, but the import of foie gras to or from California. As such, a judge ruled that the PORTION of the law which dealt with imports and exports of foie gras was preempted by the federal Poultry Products Inspection Act.
It’s NOT a victory for Constitutionalists, since this is precisely what is supposed to be disallowed by the Commerce clause, not some reckless expansion of the Commerce clause: the founders did not want the states to be able to launch trade wars against each other.
UH-OH! WE HAVE A SECOND AMENDMENT ISSUE, HERE! (Believe it or not!)
Looks like the foie gras producers used a dumb tactic. They claimed that a Congressional law super-ceded the state law. California responded that the Congressional law dealt with ingredients, but not how those ingredients were made, even though there was no legal way to produce those ingredients.
The foie-gras manufacturers failed to make the case that California had no right to regulate interstate commerce, choosing to make it an issue over the applicability of a statute, rather than a Constitutional issue.
Herein, the 9th circuit is allowing the regulation of interstate commerce to the complete DEATH of a form of that commerce.
Nooooooooooooooooooo!
How the heck is Hollyweird and fatso politicians going to get theirs? Oh, that is right, they have special rights and smuggling.
Luv Foi Gras...
I have long thought that someone should set up trading posts in AZ to sell stuff forbidden in California. The Colorado Indian Tribes Reservation, which is crossed by I-10 would be ideal.
They could sell cheaper gasoline, much cheaper brand name cigarettes and other tobacco, foie gras, shark fins, Flamin’ Hot Cheetos, banned beauty products, kangaroo products, flame retardants, snake skins, lead, zinc or copper fishing weights, etc., etc.
Celebrities & other elitists will be the only ones to care about this.
Yet, killing babies is approved of.