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Article: Farm Sanctuary: Chicago City Council Reverses Foie Gras Ordinance Effectively Endorsing Animal Cruelty.
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- May 14, 2008
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Devastating Decision to Defy Popular Sentiment and Allow the Sale of this Notoriously Cruel Product Comes in Advance of Legal Case that Could Have Protected the Ban
CHICAGO -- Farm Sanctuary, the nation's leading farm animal protection organization, today issued a statement on the Chicago City Council's decision to repeal the ordinance that banned foie gras in 2006. Since that time, the Illinois Restaurant Association, led by Mayor Daley's former chief of staff, has relentlessly politicized this popular humane measure, filing a lawsuit to overturn the ban in 2007, which they lost, then appealing to the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit in ...