Posted on 08/27/2023 1:47:52 PM PDT by Libloather
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul is in the midst of a showdown with New York City Mayor Eric Adams over the legality of foie gras, a luxurious, but controversial form of duck liver.
Adams' administration has sought to enforce a ban on the delicacy over animal rights complaints, as producing the fatty liver requires force-feeding ducks at specialty farms elsewhere in the state.
Former NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio had first signed the ban in 2019, and it was scheduled to take effect in November 2022. Hochul's state Department of Agriculture and Markets stepped in and ordered the city not to enforce the ban.
Proponents of the state government's move say NYC authorities were overreaching by essentially trying to close farms roughly 100 miles away from the city. Advocates of the ban, however, argue that NYC should be free to regulate itself, according to Politico.
City officials won their first victory earlier this month, when a county judge struck down the state's order preventing the enforcement of the ban. Their opposition has filed to appeal the decision.
Voters for Animal Rights, a lobbying group that was instrumental in getting the city to pass its initial ban, says state officials are intentionally dragging out the process, as existing farms are permitted to continue providing foie gras so long as litigation continues.
"They just want to drag this out as long as possible to keep profiting for as long as possible," Bryan Pease, the lawyer representing VAR, told Politico. "They’re not going to be able to maintain this completely frivolous position that they have that they can strike down laws wherever they want, just because it might have some indirect upstream effect on a farm somewhere in Upstate New York. If that was the case, then you couldn’t ban anything."
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Foie gras is nasty. I’d as soon smear Lubriplate on a cracker and eat that. I still don’t favor banning it.
California tried this some years ago, but Native American tribes are exempt from state laws, or at least that law. Thus restaurants at tribal casinos and markets on tribal land began to carry the delicacy. CA then changed the law back as they realized that it did not do anything to stop the enjoyment of the food (which is delicious!!!!)
Liver is terrible...Chicken liver, Goose liver, Beef liver, Anything else liver...It’s ALL terrible!!!! (Just my opinion)
Stop it already. This is too much. I am overwhelmed by all the reasons never to go back to NYC. I don’t need one more. I stopped eating out in Chicago after Foie gras was temporarily forbidden in the city. They revered themselves after all the suburban restaurants started selling foie gras appetizers.
The only thing liver is good for is bait for catching Catfish.....
Aristocrats arguing over appetizers, while their kingdoms dissolve in chaos.
The government is not supposed to control our lives.
You obviously have never made scrapple or liverwurst. Nothing from an animal should be wasted.
I had a teacher in the 2nd grade that sat down and made me eat liver...I threw up all over her...Liver hasn’t crossed my again and I’m 74 years old...
my lips...
Duck liver?
I thought foie gras was goose liver.
If you’ve ever farmed and raised what you eat, you eat liver, kidneys, heart, snouts, tounge, and stomach. Scrapple gets the rest of the less desired parts. Scrapple is just about the best tasting product from animal butchering I’ve ever had. Lard cooks, stores, and tastes better than any vegetable shortening.
I was born and raised on a farm just outside Townsend, TN...My dad raised Angus/Hereford crosses...Mom had a huge garden...I hunted for years and ate what I killed, but I DID NOT EAT LIVER...I really don’t care what you eat...What matters to me is what I eat...Or don’t eat...
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