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Article: Fat geese, fatter lawyers; Gastronomy.(Outlawing foie gras)
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- The Economist (US)
- Article date:
- May 20, 2006
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The latest terrain (or terrine?) for lobbyists
HEAVEN, according to one long-dead British clergyman, "is eating pate de foie gras to the sound of trumpets." Too bad, then, that it will soon be illegal to get a taste of heaven in the restaurants of Chicago. Appalled by the practice of stuffing food into ducks and geese to make their livers both grotesquely huge and mouth-wateringly delicious, the city council has voted unanimously to make Chicago, from mid-July, the first American city to ban the sale of foie gras. A law passed by the California legislature in September 2004 also bans the production and sale of foie gras, but does not come into effect until 2012.