Did any of the fat ducks complain?
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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Kabuki Theater to hide the Kalergi Plan.
They don’t care about people in any meaningful way.
Did any of the fat ducks complain?
It’s about damn time they tackled this issue.
Leave foie gras alone; BAN THE ADAMS A-HOLE.
A questionable issue, but well within the City’s rights, IMO.
They only complained about people calling him Christie.
Animal rights zealots are as crazy as the eco kind. They’re meat Nazis. No meat for you.
If you have absolutely no idea how to lead or manage, may as well argue over food: A MMA match between two empty politicians for sure!
Foie gras is not duck liver. It is goose liver. Am I wrong?
Duck or goose. DuckDuckGo wouldn’t lie.
“Force feeding ducks.” What nonsense. The geese (not ducks) follow the farmer around hoping he’ll shove that plunger down its throat. Silly city kids.
AFLAC.
it’s about time since all the other problems are solved...
Adams’ goose is cooked.
Actually, his chickens....comin’ home....to roooost.
(Back when the original Japanese version of Iron Chef was on 20 years ago, practically every chef used fois gras in at least one recipe. Amazing how the Japanese remain skinny.)
All the problems in NYC and these two argue over Goose Liver....
Ah well, they ARE democrats....
Fat duck....
Walks like a Christie voter, quacks like a Christie voter.
Let them eat cake….
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