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City Council bans foie gras, Prantl’s bakes a Terrible Torte, and more Pittsburgh food news
Pgh City Paper ^ | 12/19/23 | Rachael Wilkinson

Posted on 04/22/2024 7:05:51 PM PDT by DallasBiff

Pittsburgh City Council

Local animal activists applauded Pittsburgh City Council for banning foie gras, a controversial delicacy produced by force-feeding ducks and geese until their livers become fatty and diseased. In what one Humane Action Pittsburgh press release describes as a "groundbreaking move toward animal welfare and ethical consumption," the City Council passed, by a vote of 7-2, a bill to "ban the production and sale of foie gras within city limits." Restrictions on foie gras have already been placed in numerous countries around the world, including Australia, Germany, India, the United Kingdom, and Turkey, as well as in various U.S. states and cities.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Chit/Chat; Food
KEYWORDS: duck; foiegras; zucchini
Would liberals be angry at an overfed zucchini?


1 posted on 04/22/2024 7:05:51 PM PDT by DallasBiff
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To: DallasBiff

Mine’s bigger.


2 posted on 04/22/2024 7:07:26 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (The worst thing about censorship is █████ ██ ████ ████ ████ █ ███████ ████. FJB.)
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To: DallasBiff

The only time in my life when I could afford to eat foie gras was when a little can of it was in every box of French Army rations.


3 posted on 04/22/2024 7:09:01 PM PDT by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

4 posted on 04/22/2024 7:10:13 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: DallasBiff

I think of the things that I want government to do:

Courts
Post Office
Roads

After that, I start struggling, thinking of legitimate things for government to do.

But we’re stuck with government that want to ban foie gras and also do a million other things.


5 posted on 04/22/2024 7:12:14 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy (It's not "Quiet Quitting" -- it's "Going Galt".)
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To: DallasBiff

[[”groundbreaking move toward animal welfare and ethical consumption,”]]

But yet these same freaks eat vegetables that are force fed sunshine and warmth in hothouses to grow in unnatural environments all year long- I say we ban the unethical force growth of vegetables!


6 posted on 04/22/2024 7:13:26 PM PDT by Bob434
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To: DallasBiff

I doubt it.


7 posted on 04/22/2024 7:57:39 PM PDT by No name given (Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: DallasBiff

They passed the same law in California. I’m pretty sure the Federal court overturned it. Interstate commerce. It’s a USDA matter.


8 posted on 04/22/2024 9:04:08 PM PDT by monkeyshine (live and let live is dead)
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To: monkeyshine

With the Courts today, I would not be so sure.


9 posted on 04/22/2024 9:05:37 PM PDT by sport
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To: DallasBiff

They should make foie gras out of the morbidly obese consumers of MacDonalds.
I’m sure there’s an never ending supply of fatty livers and the best part, they volunteered to enforce themselves.
Just have to disguise them as the *Green and human(e)) alternative and put on the plates of the super wealthy eco nuts like Leonardo DeCaprio or Al Gore.


10 posted on 04/22/2024 10:34:11 PM PDT by RedMonqey ("A republic, if you can keep it" Benjamin Franklin.)
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To: DallasBiff

Foie gras or Mardi gras...Mind your own dang liver and I’ll mind mine. Why is this an issue for government?!


11 posted on 04/23/2024 3:11:24 AM PDT by outofsalt (If history teaches us anything, it's that history rarely teaches anything.)
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To: DallasBiff

SHHH, don’t tell anybody but I have Foie gras in my freezer that I will be enjoying soon.


12 posted on 04/23/2024 6:45:07 AM PDT by Tommy Revolts (,,)
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