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Article: Chicago joins the international foie gras feud
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- November 10, 2005
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ANNA JOHNSON, Associated Press Writer
AP Worldstream
11-10-2005
Dateline: CHICAGO
In the city once known as the world's slaughterhouse, restaurants, politicians and animal rights activists are exercised over a goose liver delicacy.
A proposed ban on foie gras has divided Chicago's fine restaurants and stirred a two-pronged debate: whether it is humane to force-feed geese and ducks to plump up their livers, and whether politicians should be telling diners what they can and cannot eat.
"Our laws are reflection of our culture, and in our culture it's not acceptable to torture small animals," said Alderman Joseph Moore, whose proposed ordinance would affect at least 19 restaurants in Chicago, by ...