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Chicago Overturns Foie Gras Ban
New York Times ^ | 5-14-08 | Nick Fox

Posted on 05/14/2008 2:53:26 PM PDT by dynachrome

Chicagoans can feast on foie gras once more. The Chicago City Council just repealed the ban on its sale that it put in place two years ago. Monica Davey, the Times’s Chicago bureau chief, says the ban has been a source of embarrassment for the city and the repeal comes as residents have accused officials of trying to micromanage people’s lives, with talk of prohibiting smoking even outside along the lakefront and eliminating transfats from restaurants. No other American city has prohibited foie gras’ sale, but California has passed a law banning it as of 2012.

(Excerpt) Read more at dinersjournal.blogs.nytimes.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government; News/Current Events; US: Illinois
KEYWORDS: chicago; foiegras; foodies; nannystate
Partial victory over the nanny staters.
1 posted on 05/14/2008 2:53:29 PM PDT by dynachrome
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To: dynachrome

Cool Deal !


2 posted on 05/14/2008 4:07:56 PM PDT by festus (Tagline removed.)
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To: dynachrome

Now, if we can only bring back cigar smoking...


3 posted on 05/14/2008 4:49:18 PM PDT by 12Gauge687 (Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice)
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