Braunschwiger:
Posted on 05/15/2008 5:01:30 PM PDT by mojito
Gourmets in Chicago can order foie gras again after the city council on Wednesday repealed a two-year restaurant ban on a delicacy that critics say is produced at cruel expense to geese and ducks.
The aldermen voted 37-6 to drop the ban on restaurants serving foie gras, an ordinance that had passed with a single dissenting vote in April 2006.
The city had issued a few warnings to restaurants for flouting the ban and one defiant eatery was fined.
Mayor Richard Daley had called the ban the "silliest ordinance" the city council ever passed and said it made Chicago "the laughingstock of the nation."
Animal rights groups decry foie gras as a product of inhumane treatment as it is made by force-feeding geese and ducks through a steel pipe put down their throats, expanding their livers to 10 times normal size.
In 2004, California passed a law that will end the production and sale of foie gras in the state in 2012. Similar laws have been proposed in a few other states.
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals criticized Chicago's move to overturn the ban.
"This is industry's dirty political manoeuvring at its worst," the group said in a statement.
"Today, that compassionate decision was reversed in a secretive, rushed bow to special interests that benefit from the cruel treatment of animals. It goes against what the vast majority of Chicagoans believe in."
Some restaurant owners, whose association lobbied for the ban's repeal, worried that other items such as lobster, veal and even eggs could be barred from their menus.
"I thought it was us sticking our nose in something we probably shouldn't have even been in," Alderman Dick Mell told the Chicago Sun-Times newspaper, adding that veal calves and chickens also suffer in confinement.
"There's some cruelty out there, folks."
That way it gets a French name.
Right, and a Ferrari is just a Chevy made in Italy.
MMmmmm......foie gras sammich with mustard and lots of onion.....
No, Pastor Jeremiah Wright and Senator Barack Hussein Obama have done that.
Braunschwiger:
*Mayor Richard Daley had called the ban the “silliest ordinance” the city council ever passed *
And Spouting Horn calls Mayor Daley one of the stupidest Mayors ever elected.
Long live foie grais.
You know what this means. More naked college girls protesting.
Do you know where we can buy “Volcanic Goat Cheese”? The EU seems to have banned it for fear folks might get volcanic dust in their gizzards.
I’ll take Braunschweiger over foie gras any day. I don’t care if it has beef and pig hearts and mystery meat mixed into it.
But how will Chicago get the mob out of secret “honk easy” foie gras restaurants?
But unfortunately, not the ones you would want to look at.
I guess the wealthy “contributors” to the Democrapic Machine told the lawmakers to “get real”.
Judging from the threads I’ve seen, they have a cuter per capita than the usual lib protest but they can run a bit underfed and malnurished. Steakburger, fries, and a beer ought to fix that.
Ooooooh....I gotta disagree with that one......
Mrs. Obama wants to throw a party. Hop to it, Alderpersons!
Yeah, but now you'll have to explain to me what braunschweiger is.
Your kidding?!
foie gras....ummmmm...yum
That would be Hot Doug's, at California and Roscoe. As you can see from the list of Specials, a foie gras sausage wasn't ready for this weeks menu but I'm sure there will be a mouth watering offering as soon as Doug can make it.
Doug Sohn was fined $250 for offering this little hot dog special, “Foie Gras and Sauternes Duck Sausage with Truffle Sauce Moutarde and Armagnac-Truffle Chicken Mousse” for $6.50. This story deserves a byline from R.W. Apple, God rest his well fed soul.
Damn! Someone just goosed me! What? It was foie gras? Thank God it’s legal now!
Chicago. Yet another poster city for the high quality of living to be had in Blue State urban hell holes.
Too rich for my system. Hot Doug’s had great pheasant and bison hot dogs. A little bit leaner for us oldsters.
Calling the restaurants flagrantly disobeying the bans "duck-easies". :-)
Gras means fat. What does fois mean? Duck?
“Mayor Richard Daley had called the ban the “silliest ordinance” the city council ever passed”
He’d feel the same way about guns if he didn’t have all of those CPD bodyguards.
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